15-Yr. Old Brett Elder Was Tasered To Death By Bay City Police!

This is just another case that illustrates why Tasers should not be so readily used by police officers to subdue someone.Why it took three officers to subdue a 15-yr. old kid is beyond me!What was the reason that he was tasered in the first place? It doesn't seem like it was necessary or even appropriate in this case! Police procedures & how they are applied need to be reconsidered.Here's more on this story from mlive.com:

"Eugene E. Elder Sr. figures police killed his teenage son unjustifiably with a Taser, and he plans to fire back with a lawsuit.

"I'm going after the city. I don't care," said Elder, 55, of Bay City. "There's
no reason for killing my boy. He didn't do nothing wrong."

Elder conceded his 15-year-old son - Brett L. Elder - had been drinking alcohol Saturday night before police subdued him early Sunday morning with a Taser following a disturbance in a Bay City apartment.

But relatives said Brett "Dewey" Elder stood 5-foot-6 and weighed about 140 pounds. They said he was no match for three Bay City Police Department officers who encountered him in Cindy Hernden's apartment at 210 S. Catherine St.

"I believe they killed him," said Hernden, 40, a close friend of the Elder family.

"I believe his heart couldn't handle it," Hernden added. "I just figured that Taser was too strong for that small of a kid. He's tiny,and there were three grown police officers.

"They could have subdued him without handcuffs, but they handcuffed him and then Tasered him."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.

I Did Not Know That Trick Daddy Has Lupus!

Trick Daddy is a rapper who totes the image of a fatherly thug & constantly professes his love for the kids in his lyrics.I like a few of his joints,like "Dro In The Wind"!Lately,he hasn't had a lot of hits,but he's releasing a autobiography.In it,he reveals his ongoing battle with lupus for the past 11 yrs.Here's more from AllHipHop.com:

"The rapper also learned that a close female friend had the disease, when he noticed a visible change in her appearance.


“A lot of people try to cover it up with regular make up. It makes your skin pigmented. You can go from dark to light and not light to dark. You have to cover it up and conceal it…my mama had 11 children from 10 different men. If she can live with that I know, I can live with this."


The disease has already taken the life of prominent Hip-Hop producer James “J. Dilla” Yancey, who died from complications of the disease on February 19, 2006, just three days after his 32nd birthday.


In related news, Trick Daddy also announced he has landed his first major film role in a film that begins shooting next week.


“They got me playing in a movie with a lot of gangsters from The Wire and the big black films. I can me, I can be a G in it.”(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.

"Big Brother" Reality Star Jade Goody Has Died!

Jade Goody was the controversial reality star of "Big Brother" in the UK.She has died today from cervical cancer at the young age of 27.The cameras never stopped rolling for Ms. Goody.She lived out her dying days in front of them.May she rest in peace.Here's more from the Telegraph:

"In the months leading up to her death Goody gave the media unprecedented access to her private life and hired publicist Max Clifford to make sure every step of her struggle was played out in front of the nation.

Goody said the multi-million pound deals she struck with OK! Magazine and LivingTV would provide for her sons' education and raise awareness of the disease.

But the decision to expose her private final weeks to such intense public scrutiny led to accusations of bad taste, voyeurism and exploitation.

Her every move saw her followed by TV cameras and tabloid newspapers, leading some to draw comparisons with the film The Truman Show, in which Jim Carrey plays a man who discovers his entire life is filmed for television."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.