Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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LOS ANGELES—Officials in Southern California say Bobby Brown has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Harris says Brown was arrested around 12:20 p.m. Monday in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. He failed a field sobriety test and was booked on suspicion of DUI. Harris says the R&B singer was pulled ov...

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Bobby Brown arrested

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Whitney Houston's ex-husband Bobby Brown has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI).

Officials in Los Angeles say the R&B star was pulled over after being spotted talking on his mobile phone without a hands-free kit.

Police say the singer was held after failing a field sobriety test which can include motorists being asked to stand on one leg or walk in a straight line.

The 43-year-old was taken to a nearby jail but released on £3,500 bail.

Brown's highest-charting single in the UK to date is Two Can Play That Game, which reached number three in April 1995.

In 2003 Bobby Brown was sentenced to eight days in jail after pleading guilty to a drink-driving charge from 1996.

He was ordered to perform 240 hours of community service and pay about $2,600 (£1,607) in fines.

Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown

Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston divorced in 2007 after being married for 15 years.

During their time together Houston claimed the pair were physically violent with each other. Brown was arrested and charged with battery towards her in 2003.

Last week a coroner's report said Houston, who was found drowned in her hotel bath tub in February, had traces of cocaine in her system.

Medical documents also showed she suffered from a form of heart disease.

Whitney Houston left everything in her will to her only child, 19-year-old Bobbi Kristina Brown.


Friday, March 23, 2012

Geraldo Rivera blames Trayvon Martin’s hoodie, feels Internet’s wrath — VIDEO

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Does wearing a hoodie automatically put a target on a dark-skinned young man’s back? According to Geraldo Rivera, the answer is yes. The Fox News commentator opined on air today that Trayvon Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old who was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, was asking for trouble — because he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt.

As Rivera told Fox & Friends cohost Brian Kilmeade, he believes that parents of “black and Latino youngsters” shouldn’t let their children go out wearing hoodies: “I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.”

How’s that, you ask? Let Rivera explain: “When you see a kid walking down the street, particularly a dark-skinned kid like my son Cruz…. What’s the instant association? It’s those crime scene surveillance tapes. Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid’s wearing a hoodie.”

Predictably, the Internet’s reaction to Rivera’s words was quick and vicious. The Atlantic Wire put together a list of other folks who, according to Rivera, are asking to be shot. Among them: Elliot from ET and — Geraldo himself. NBA stars LeBron James and Dwayne Wade tweeted photos of themselves wearing hoodies accompanied by hashtags like “#wewantjustice.” And comedian Aziz Ansari kept things short, tweeting, “It’s really appropriate to tweet this any day, but seriously — F— you, Geraldo.”

See the clip from Fox & Friends yourself below.

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Geraldo Rivera says Florida boy's hoodie played a role in his death

Fox News Channel commentator Geraldo Rivera said Friday that the hoodie an unarmed black teenager wore when he was killed in Florida is as much responsible for his death as the man who shot him.

The veteran TV personality, speaking on “Fox & Friends,” waded in with an opinion on the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a story that has attracted national attention over the past month. He later acknowledged that his comments were “politically incorrect.”

People wearing hooded sweatshirts are often going to be perceived as a menace, Rivera said.

“I’ll bet you money that if he didn’t have that hoodie on, that nutty neighborhood watch guy wouldn’t have responded in that violent and aggressive way,” Rivera said.

The unarmed 17-year-old Martin was killed Feb. 26 in Sanford. He was wearing a hoodie and returning from a trip to a convenience store when neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman started following him, telling police dispatchers he looked suspicious. Zimmerman hasn’t been charged and says he shot Martin in self-defense.

The case brought hundreds of people together in New York with Martin’s parents for a protest march this week. The BET television network said it would air a special, “Shoot First: The Tragedy of Trayvon Martin,” on Monday.

Of Martin, Rivera said, “God bless him, he was an innocent kid, a wonderful kid.” But he said the case should be a warning to parents to watch what their children should wear.

“If you dress like a hoodlum eventually some schmuck is going to take you at your word,” he wrote in a commentary posted Friday on the website Fox News Latino.

Hundreds of people had posted messages on Rivera’s Facebook page by Friday afternoon, the overwhelming majority of them negative about Rivera’s comments.

Rivera compared his own comments to those of fellow Fox analyst Juan Williams, who was fired by National Public Radio in 2010 for saying on Fox that he gets nervous when he sees people on a plane with clothing that identifies them as Muslim.

“No one black, brown or white can honestly tell me that seeing a kid of color with a hood pulled over his head doesn’t generate a certain reaction — sometimes scorn, often menace,” Rivera wrote in his commentary