Man arrested for taking off woman's hijab

37-year-old Gill Parker Payne, of Gastonia, North Carolina was on a South Airlines flight from Chicago to Albuquerque on Dec. 11 2015 when he saw a woman wearing a hijab sitting several rows in front of him.


Authorities say Payne approached her and told her to take it off, she refused saying it was a religious headscarf, then he responded, "This is America!" He then removed the hijab from her head.


The woman reported the incident to the Police and Payne got arrested. He was charged with using force or threat of force to obstruct a Muslim woman in the free exercise of her religious beliefs.


He appeared in court on Friday and pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge. He didn't go to jail but was fined.


Source: AP

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Three men arrested and face 1 year in prison for killing Tiny fish

Three men have been arrested and charged with the killing of a tiny fish (an endangered specie) destruction of property, trespassing and unlawful possession of a firearm by police after they allegedly broke into a fenced-off protected area of Death Valley National Park in Nevada on 30 April. The 3 drunk men Steven Schwinkendorf, 29, Edgar Reyes, 35, and Trenton Sargent, 26, stomped around in the water of Devils Hole, they threw up in the pond, threw beer cans and boxer shorts over the area, and tore up the habitat of the Devils Hole pupfish, one of the rarest fish in the world. One of the fish was later found dead.


According to the National Parks Service, the men fired a gun at least 10 times at gate locks, a motion sensor and several signs. Sensitive scientific monitoring equipment was also damaged.


They face the possibility of fines of up to $50,000 and a year in prison. The Sherriff's office said:


“Their unlawful visit ultimately culminated with at least one of the suspects stripping off their clothes and entering the water of Devils Hole.”


“The suspects in the water stomped around the shelf area of the critical ecosystem before swimming around the deeper water, leaving behind a pair of dirty underwear when finished.


“The intrusion is believed to have resulted in the death of at least one endangered Devils Hole pupfish, and fisheries biologists are trying to ascertain the extended damage that may have been done to food sources and egg sites which could lead to more loss of a species whose numbers are now below the last count of 115 in existence.”


Source: The Guardian

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Lol, someone offered to buy George Zimmerman's gun for $65million

On Thursday, George Zimmerman took the gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin up for auction on GunBroker and wrote: He said: "I am honored and humbled to announce the sale of an American Firearm Icon. The firearm for sale is the firearm that was used to defend my life and end the brutal attack from Trayvon Martin on 2/26/2012." The website took down his auction, saying it wanted “no part in the listing on our website or in any of the publicity it is receiving.” So he took the gun to United Gun Group and put it up for auction there.


Several people told the website to take it down but they tweeted... So an Internet user by the name of “Racist McShootface,” decided to frustrate George Zimmeman's effort to sell the gun by making a bid of $65 million, other trolls immediately recognized what McShootface was up to and made their own bids, using screen names like “Donald Trump” and “Tamir Rice.” The bid rose up to $65,039,000.00 before the United Gun Group deleted the bid.


George Zimmerman also tried to sell the gun to the Smithsonian but the respectfully declined. They tweeted.. He put it back on auction on the United Gun group website and someone genuinely offered to buy the gun for $415,000. Sad.

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See Photos of Doyin Okupe Prostrating and Begging Obasanjo for Forgiveness

While working with Goodluck Jonathan, the same Doyin Okupe talked to Baba Olusegun Obasanjo just as he wished, a respected Nigerian, international personality and elder from his home state - Ogun.


Now that he has finished serving Jonathan and returned home, he has seen that you do not insult your 'babas' all because of outsiders. He had to go personally to beg Obasanjo. See more photos... Speaking after the encounter, Okupe said: "I begged Baba Obasanjo, he forgave me and I kissed him."

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Female Fraudster To Be Arraigned By EFCC Over N9m Scam

Do your best to work for your money, so you don't end up disgracing yourself and your family...


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on Monday, May 16, 2016, arraign an alleged fraudster, identified as Bisi Lillian Olagunju before an Oyo State High Court.


She will be arraigned before the court sitting in Ibadan on a three-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N9,000,000 (Nine Million Naira).


Bisi who allegedly claimed to be a Special Adviser to a purported Rural and Urban Development Committee Chairman of the National Assembly, obtained the total some in tranches from one Abiodun Julius under the pretense of helping him to facilitate contracts as well as employment opportunity for his younger brother.She is cooling off in EFCC cell, waiting for her trial.

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See Photo: Spanish club C.D. Palencia unveil there new football kits very 'ridiculous' ever

C.D. Palencia, a team that plays in the fourth division of the Spanish football league have released their new set of jerseys/kits and to say the least they look ridiculous.


The kits which have the design of the human muscular system look strange to be worn as kits as the players look more like half-dressed extras for a scene from "Game of Thrones" than they do actual soccer players. See more photos after the cut.

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Big Trouble: For Saraki & Ekweremadu AGF Declares Their Election Null and Void

Embattled senate president Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, seem to be moving from one case to another, jumping from frying pan to fire. Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has declared the election that produced them as a nullity and couldn’t stand the test of legality.


The AGF has therefore ordered the Director of Public Prosecution to immediate begin the process of taking them out of the office of Senate President and Deputy which they are occupying illegally.


In a legal position written by the office of the AGF, Malami wrote that since the election was conducted with a forged document [Senate Standing Order], it is just natural that election in itself is a nullity from the beginning.


The legal position by the Ministry of Justice with reference number, DPPA/ADV/258/15, recommended that some suspects [those who masterminded the face document], should be prosecuted.


The legal position, which analysed the evidence thrown up by the police investigation, had indicated that the “leadership election, based on the forged document, cannot stand and it is null and void”.


The legal advice added, Further investigation should reveal: “Who authorised the promulgation of the Senate Standing Order 2015?


“Who published the Senate Standing Order 2015?


“Who approved the Senate Standing Order 2015?


“Who paid for the publishing of the Senate Standing Order 2015? and


“Who distributed the Senate Standing Order 2015?”


Sodeeqstarblog gathered that the office of the AGF has assembled the evidence for their prosecution.

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