Category: Hate Crimes

Sewage Spill Dumps 1.5 Million Gallons Of Sewage Forcing Closure of Beaches in Long Beach

At least 1.5 million gallons of sewage have spilled into the Los Angeles River and triggered a closure of all beaches in Long Beach.

Crews worked overnight to contain the fast-growing spill, which occurred about 2 p.m. Monday near 6th Street and Mission Road in Boyle Heights, according to Paul Gomez, a spokesman for the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works.

The leak was finally stopped at 10 p.m., but crews remained at the site to repair the cracked pipe, said Adel Hagekhalil, assistant director of Los Angeles Sanitation. Hagekhalil said as much as 2 million gallons of sewage might have spilled.

“We had tankers working all night,” he said. “We diverted a spill away from Lincoln Heights. We’re continuing to do a bypass of the spill.”

Officials said the top of a sewer pipe collapsed, sending debris into the pipe and clogging it. Sewage overflowed and reached the L.A. River, and headed toward Long Beach.

Public Works officials don’t know what caused the break, but said the major pipe was built in 1929.

“This happening is just a part of the maintenance system,” Hagekhalil said. “Something grows old, you have to repair it or replace it.”

Sanitation workers on Tuesday were building a permanent bypass system to divert flow around the old pipe, Hagekhalil said.

Long Beach officials planned to test samples of ocean water Tuesday morning to determine whether it posed any health risks to the public, said Nelson Kerr, manager of the city’s Bureau of Environmental Health.

 

via Sewage Spill in L.A. Grows to 1.5 million Gallons, Forces Closure of Beaches in Long Beach — KTLA

Pakistani Social Media Star Strangled by Brother In‘Honor Killing’

  

Qandeel Baloch, one of Pakistan’s most famous and controversial social media stars, has been strangled to death in what police are calling a case of so called “honor” killing in the city of Multan in the country’s province of Punjab.

Azhar Akram, Multan’s chief police officer, told CNN that Baloch was killed by her brother in her family’s home after he had protested at the “kind of pictures she had been posting online.”

After going on the run, the brother was later arrested and confessed on a video that police showed at a news conference.
Baloch’s father Muhammad Azeem reported her death to the police.

Baloch, 25, was from the Punjabi town of Kot Addu and had risen to fame due to the brazenly sassy, and increasingly political, videos that she had started posting on Facebook.

Her videos were not very different from thousands others shared by 20-something social media celebrities around the Internet — she pouted like a kitten into the camera, discussed her various hairstyles and shared cooing confessions from her bedroom about her celebrity crushes.

Baloch pushed boundaries
Yet in Pakistan, her flirty antics were unusual, pushing the boundaries of what’s acceptable of women in Pakistan. 

According to the World Economic Forum’s 2015 Gender Gap Report, Pakistan was second to last on the list of 145 countries with regards to gender disparity.

Read more: Pakistani Social Media Star Qandeel Baloch Strangled by Brother in So-Called ‘Honor Killing’: Police — KTLA

Wendy Williams Loses Sponsorship Deals Following HBCU & NAACP Comments

  
Wendy Williams is finally paying for her words. Literally.

Bossip recently reported that the wreckless talk show host recently got on her high horse to discuss Jesse Williams’ incredibly relevant and powerful BET Awards speech.

 

Unfortunately, the words must have been lost upon Wendy because she went totally left with her thoughts about race in America.

Check out the clip below:

“I would be really offended if there was a school known as a historically white college,” Williams says. “We have historically black colleges.”

Well, according to B. Scott the talk show host has lost a very lucrative deal following her idiotic comments. – Good riddance!

Read more about it here, on BOSSIP.

Oh and while we’re on Wendy Williams, check out this throwback radio interview of her & my favorite TV judge, Judge Mathis. 

Wendy “attempted” to be her usual obnoxious domineering “personality” but was quickly halted in her bear tracks by the former drug dealer turned “distinguished” lawyer & judge. He boldly called out Wendy’s alleged cocaine addiction & accused her of “getting high in the bathroom” and having “powder around her nose.”

By the end of the read there wasn’t much left for the six foot something bully of a talk show host (who prides herself on “keeping it real”) to attack. 

The “Detroit native” accused the shock jock of spewing gossip & strongly advised her not to throw stones from a glass house because he wasn’t afraid to toss a few stones back.

“It’s tough dealing with a real one…” 

Go Judge go! Join the discussion.