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Monday, August 17, 2015
First Drip First Drip (8/17/15): Suspect runs off with Charlotte woman's baby
Posted By Ryan Pitkin on Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:47 AM
CMPD officers arrested 22-year-old Sharlornai Reid a few hours after she allegedly ran off with another woman's 10-month-old baby on Saturday. Police said Reid asked to hold Keiry Matute's baby in front of her Charlotte home and then ran off with it, fleeing in her vehicle. She was later arrested elsewhere in Charlotte and the baby was returned to its mother unharmed. Reid was arrested on an unrelated larceny warrant from Buncombe County, and is expected to be hit with multiple charges related to the kidnapping, as well.
Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan's attorneys are fighting to protect the secrecy of some of his most lucrative contracts during a Chicago court case regarding his sponsorship value. Jordan, who reportedly became a billionaire in March, filed a lawsuit against supermarket chain Safeway for using his name without permission during a 2009 promotion. Jordan's legal team has already revealed that Jordan made $536.6 million in sponsorships between 2000 and 2012, and made $100 million last year alone. His lawyers are fighting to keep his contract with Nike secret, and have called it "one of the most competitively valuable documents in the industry."
Civil rights leader and longtime NAACP chair Julian Bond, 75, passed away on Saturday evening. Bond was a civil rights and anti-war activist who helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Bond also served as president of the Southern Law Poverty Center in the 1970s. On Sunday, the SLPC released a statement that read, "With Julian's passing, the country has lost one of its most passionate and eloquent voices for the cause of justice. He advocated not just for African Americans, but for every group, indeed every person subject to oppression and discrimination, because he recognized the common humanity in us all."
A historical black gymnasium and school in Huntersville, opened in 1937 as Huntersville Colored School, may face demolition as county officials have announced the aged electrical system and possible asbestos contamination mean the repairs to keep the building running would be too expensive. The county-owned building would cost between $1 million and $2 million to fix, and Mecklenburg County Parks & Recreation director Jim Garges has recommended tearing the building down. No decision has been reached on the issue as of yet, but officials emphasize that any potential discrimination would not affect Waymer Park, which sits adjacent to the building.
South Carolina authorities have refused to release video from the dash cam of a Seneca police lieutenant who shot and killed an unarmed 19-year-old man on July 26. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division reportedly declined a Freedom of Information Act request from a local television station to share the footage. The lieutenant has said that he shot 19-year-old Zachary Hammond because he felt threatened as Hammond drove toward him.
Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan's attorneys are fighting to protect the secrecy of some of his most lucrative contracts during a Chicago court case regarding his sponsorship value. Jordan, who reportedly became a billionaire in March, filed a lawsuit against supermarket chain Safeway for using his name without permission during a 2009 promotion. Jordan's legal team has already revealed that Jordan made $536.6 million in sponsorships between 2000 and 2012, and made $100 million last year alone. His lawyers are fighting to keep his contract with Nike secret, and have called it "one of the most competitively valuable documents in the industry."
Civil rights leader and longtime NAACP chair Julian Bond, 75, passed away on Saturday evening. Bond was a civil rights and anti-war activist who helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Bond also served as president of the Southern Law Poverty Center in the 1970s. On Sunday, the SLPC released a statement that read, "With Julian's passing, the country has lost one of its most passionate and eloquent voices for the cause of justice. He advocated not just for African Americans, but for every group, indeed every person subject to oppression and discrimination, because he recognized the common humanity in us all."
A historical black gymnasium and school in Huntersville, opened in 1937 as Huntersville Colored School, may face demolition as county officials have announced the aged electrical system and possible asbestos contamination mean the repairs to keep the building running would be too expensive. The county-owned building would cost between $1 million and $2 million to fix, and Mecklenburg County Parks & Recreation director Jim Garges has recommended tearing the building down. No decision has been reached on the issue as of yet, but officials emphasize that any potential discrimination would not affect Waymer Park, which sits adjacent to the building.
South Carolina authorities have refused to release video from the dash cam of a Seneca police lieutenant who shot and killed an unarmed 19-year-old man on July 26. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division reportedly declined a Freedom of Information Act request from a local television station to share the footage. The lieutenant has said that he shot 19-year-old Zachary Hammond because he felt threatened as Hammond drove toward him.
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