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Sikh Fans Refused Entry To Chargers Stadium Because Of Their Turbans

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Sikh Fans Refused Entry To Chargers Stadium Because Of Their Turbans

The Broncos kicked the shit out of the Chargers last week in San Diego. As always, plenty of Broncos fans showed up to laugh at Philip Rivers, but a few fans almost didn’t make it in because stadium security was scared of their turbans. 10News San Diego caught up with Verinder Malhi, one of the men initially turned away, and he said his friends were told to take their turbans off if they wanted to come into the game:

“Three of my buddies, they had turbans on, and it (was like, you guys got to take the turbans off,” Mahli said.

They were finally allowed inside Qualcomm, but Malhi claims a security supervisor told him that if they ever come back, they cannot wear turbans.

“It’s bad, I mean, this is embarrassing for me, because we are Americans at the end of the day. And we are not supposed to be afraid of fellow Americans.”

Mahli and his friends apparently drove seven hours down from Fresno to get to the game. After the fans left their car to go into the stadium, another tailgater called the police to report that three turbaned men were moving stuff around in their trunk:

A tailgater took a photo of a bomb-sniffing dog checking Malhi’s vehicle. Police told 10News the dog cleared the car. Malhi said they had simply put a bag in the car after realizing they weren’t allowed to take it in the stadium.

This is both unsurprising and infuriating, and it came just days before a Sikh temple was vandalized in Buena Park, in Orange County. In that case, someone spray-painted “ISIS” on temple property.

If you know anything about the stadium incident email us at tips@deadspin.com.

Screenshot via 10news; h/t Alan


Women Win Council Seats in Saudi Arabia's Elections for the First Time Ever

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Women Win Council Seats in Saudi Arabia's Elections for the First Time Ever

In the first election in which Saudi women could both vote and campaign as candidates, women scooped up a total of seven municipal council seats.

Outnumbered 6:1, women weren’t even expected to get one seat, according Agence France-Presse. More than 900 women were among the 6,440 candidates vying for 284 seats.

Even so, the election was fraught with difficulties for women. In Saudia Arabia, women aren’t allowed many freedoms when it comes to interaction with men and the public, and female candidates weren’t allowed to campaign face-to-face to male voters. Even at the polls, female voters faced barriers: without the ability to drive, transportation to ballot boxes proved difficult.

The elections were a welcome step forward for Saudi women, however.

“Even if it was only one woman, we’re really proud of that. Honestly, we weren’t expecting anyone to win,”Sahar Hassan Nasief, a women’s rights activist in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, told AFP.

[Image via AP]


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Will Ferrell Resurrects George W. Bush on SNL, Because Now Anything Is a Better Option Than Trump

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When you’re inundated with the ravings of an orange lunatic who is also a popular candidate to become the leader of your country, it almost seems like anything would be better than him.

Anything...? asked Will Ferrell, bringing back his iconic George W. Bush character for the cold open of Saturday Night Live this week. He took the opportunity to skewer Trump and to say that the current candidates “makes you miss me, doesn’t it?”

And of Jeb! Bush, his beloved brother, Ferrell’s Bush delivered the perfect zinger: “You’ve gotta admit, it’s a pretty good plot twist that I turned out to be the smart one.”


Contact the author at melissa.cronin@gawker.com.

Gunman Wielding Machete Shot and Killed Inside Pennsylvania Walmart

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Gunman Wielding Machete Shot and Killed Inside Pennsylvania Walmart

A man carrying two handguns and what appeared to be a machete was shot and killed inside a Walmart store in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, late Saturday night.

According to CNN, witnesses say that the man told shoppers to “Get the fuck out of here” before he began pointing his gun at people. Police quickly arrived on the scene, and shot and killed the man when he pointed his gun at officers.

The man has been identified as 20-year-old Andrew Joseph Todd, of Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania, and a motive is not yet known.

[Image via Getty]


Contact the author at melissa.cronin@gawker.com.

'Mass Farting' Protest Counters Austin's Pro-Gun Demonstrators With Weapons of Flatulence

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'Mass Farting' Protest Counters Austin's Pro-Gun Demonstrators With Weapons of Flatulence

While pro-gun demonstrators staged an ill-advised and disturbing fake shooting to call for the need for guns on a campus full of people whose brains aren’t fully developed yet, on another side of the University of Texas at Austin campus, that protest was met with farts.

Farts, specifically, meant as a message—a counter-protest that was referred to by its organizers as a “mass farting.”

Organizer and UT alumnus Andrew Dobbs told the crowd:

“This isn’t about guns necessarily. This is about scaring our community. This is about a choice between fear and a little bit of good humor. We are in a scary time right now and lots of scary things are happening, and some people want us to be more afraid. I choose to believe that fear is not the solution to the threat of our time. That laughing in the face of fear is a courageous act and toting a gun around everywhere you go, maybe not so much.”

The farting protesters, complete with stereo fart noises, marched through the city, hoping to meet with the fake mass shooting demonstrators. But, as The Austin Chronicle pointed out, the “theatrical performance” was over by the time the farters arrived.

[Image via The Austin Chronicle]


Contact the author at melissa.cronin@gawker.com.

A Georgia Teacher Asked a Muslim Teen If She Was Carrying a Bomb in Her Backpack 

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A Georgia Teacher Asked a Muslim Teen If She Was Carrying a Bomb in Her Backpack 

A father of a Muslim middle school student says a teacher asked his 13-year-old daughter if she was carrying a bomb in her backpack. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Abdirizak Aden, a Somali immigrant, said that his daughter, an eighth grader in Gwinnett County, Georgia, was stopped by a teacher on Monday.

Via AJC:

Abdirizak Aden, who was born in Somalia, said that on Monday, his 13-year-old daughter, who wears the hijab, was in class when a teacher stopped her and asked what she had in her bookbag.

During an interview Friday night, his daughter, who isn’t being identified because of her age, said she remained silent. The unidentified teacher responded by asking her if she had a bomb in her bag.

She said the teacher called her out into the hallway. The teacher said she knew her joke went too far, especially because of “the things happening in the world right now,” said the daughter.

In an interview with the paper, Aden said that his daughter was obviously upset about the comment. “We are from Africa, we are Muslims, we live in America. I didn’t teach my children to hate people or to think they are better than other people.” Aden said.

A spokeswoman for the school system confirmed the incident and said that the “remark was not appropriate.” But, she added, that the comment was not made with “ill intent.” The school’s principal apologized to the family and promised to “work” with the teacher. For their part, Aden and his family are willing to forgive the teacher, but hope the incident leads to more training for teachers.

Yusof Burke, board president of the Georgia Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told AJC that the teacher’s line of questioning “shows the level of Islamophobia impacting people’s relationships with one another.”

Image via Shutterstock.

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Inside The Bitter Fight Between Soulja Boy and a Buzzfeed Reporter Over Hoverboards

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Inside The Bitter Fight Between Soulja Boy and a Buzzfeed Reporter Over Hoverboards

A battle between a Buzzfeed reporter and DeAndre Cortez Way, the rapper better known as Soulja Boy, is brewing over privacy, fraud, and, of course, hoverboards.

It all began when Joe Bernstein, a Buzzfeed News reporter reported out a story last week about a line of hoverboards the rapper is selling, aptly called “Souljaboards.” According to the piece, Soulja Boy was involved in a three-month battle with Stripe, an online payment processing company, over “chargebacks,” or processed credit card orders that are disputed by customers, and usually cost the sellers—in this case, Soulja Boy (as well as other hoverboard sellers). Often, the chargebacks happen because the buyer was using stolen credit card information. Online hoverboard purchases as whole, wrote Bernstein, “are plagued by fraud.”

Bernstein’s story was based on emails he’d obtained between Soulja Boy and Stripe, in which the rapper pleaded for help from the company over the charges to his own account, saying “I don’t want to have to pay all this money because of frauds is there any way to reverse these payments and get my account to Good standing.”

Both Berstein and Soulja Boy confirmed that Bernstein had originally texted Soulja Boy for a comment on the story.

“His phone number was in the documents I based the story on,” he said. “I texted him asking him to comment. He texted after the story came out [saying], ‘How did you get my number’ and I did not respond, mostly because his rep had already called me and threatened legal action.”

The response, provided to Gawker by Soulja Boy:

Inside The Bitter Fight Between Soulja Boy and a Buzzfeed Reporter Over Hoverboards

Soulja Boy never ended up commenting for Bernstein’s piece, and was surprised when it ran the next day. He reacted angrily, tweeting out Bernstein’s personal cell phone number on Sunday with a note saying “call me.”

“I was just mad because he got my number and info out my email and I didn’t know how,” Soulja Boy told Gawker. “Now this story is public it’s just embarrassing and unnecessary when you’re trying to handle [sic] Bizness.”

Naturally, Soulja Boy’s 4.8 million fans reacted by incessantly calling and texting the number, thinking it was the rapper’s.

“I woke up from a nap to dozens of texts: ‘hey soulja,’ ‘is this really your number?’” said Bernstein. “I suspect he’s mad because of a story I wrote about him getting defrauded on his hoverboard business...A rep of his had previously called me and said I’d be hearing from his lawyers.”

Bernstein says that he can’t turn his phone on now because so many fans are trying to FaceTime him.

Soulja Boy, for his part, doesn’t know where Bernstein got his emails from, and accused the reporter of hacking his email in a now-deleted tweet. He is still upset about the story, and feels that publishing his emails is an invasion of his privacy (Bernstein would not talk about his sourcing, but noted that if was going to break the law, “it would probably be for a better reason than to write about hoverboard fraud”).

“People are thinking we lost that money in a scam,” said Soulja Boy. “We are working the fraud orders out with Stripe. But why is it ok for him to post this info if it’s between me and Stripe? There’s nothing wrong with that? People can do that?”

Despite the setback, he says that the fraud charges are being handled and reversed, and he wants to put the story behind him. He would like the story taken down, which Bernstein says is not going happen, just because the subject of the story is unhappy. “That just means i’m doing my job,” he said.


Contact the author at melissa.cronin@gawker.com.


'Instagram Husband' Is an Accidental Ode to the Still-Shitty Gender Dynamics of Success

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A new video featuring the long-suffering laments of the “Instagram Husband” is a comedic tribute to the silent sacrifice of the partners who help make art (or “art”) happen. But it also inadvertently highlights how rarely that role is played by men.

The video, a comedy sketch by Emmy-winning Missouri talk show The Mystery Hour, is framed in a confessional style, featuring downtrodden men telling their tales of woe. “My name’s Trey, I’m an Instagram husband,” one guy begins. “I’ve had to delete all the apps off my phone to make room for more photos.”

“It’s become a pretty big problem,” another says. “It takes so long to get anywhere because we’re taking pictures of our feet.”

The men in the sketch are clearly depicted as emasculated, humiliated, bitter, and bored. And while the video is funny enough (especially if you don’t subscribe to that Insta Lifestyle), the humor hinges on the fact that it’s novel—men don’t usually play the silent support role. They are more likely to be the prominent artists and the makers, and it’s more often women behind the scenes cheering them on.

A close female equivalent to the Instagram husband would be the band wife/girlfriend. While the Instagram husband is a totally new invention, the musician’s girlfriend goes way back, and there’s tons of advice for her out there; most of it involves telling her how to not get in his way. The blog “The Band Wife” is maintained and written by Laura Gummerman, who is married to the guitarist in MuteMath. In a post addressed to other band wives on how to deal, she advises them to basically get a life while he’s gone—a degree, a hobby—so they aren’t sitting around pining and moping. There’s also a section on how to complain “the right amount.” Can you imagine anyone ever telling a man to do that?

There are scads of women behind the great artists we all celebrate. Monet, Picasso, Rodin, Cezanne, and Dali all had supportive wives and girlfriends who helped make their art possible. Sometimes these lovers were artists in their own right whose work was subsequently overshadowed. Famously, Man Ray’s girlfriend Lee Miller actually took some of the photos he’s credited with. Could F. Scott Fitzgerald have written The Great Gatsby without Zelda? Did he lift from her journals to do it? Could Nabokov have been so productive without wife Vera, who believed so strongly in his work that she typed all his manuscripts?

And it bears out in pop culture too. Real Housewives is a wildly successful reality franchise featuring the wives of rich, famous men. What ever happened to Real Husbands of Hollywood? Does anyone care? (Note: It also started as a joke, and of course, the men, including Nick Cannon and Chris Rock, were pretty famous, too.) Roundups of famous actresses who are married to less-famous, supportive men tend to be the exception and not the rule. And even in non-famous, non-artist regular people pairings, divorce rates increase when women out-earn their husbands.

The stereotype of women as silent, supportive helpmeets in the service and shadow of great art isn’t anything new, and the “Instagram Husband” video shows that this is still the dynamic we’re more comfortable with. Of course, Instagram photos aren’t necessarily art, though they certainly can be; and the video and its accompanying Tumblr are meant to be satire. But it gets laughs for a reason—because it’s still super lame to see men standing around doing nothing but making a woman look good.

Police: Man Shot and Killed by Los Angeles Deputies Would Not Let Go of Gun

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Police: Man Shot and Killed by Los Angeles Deputies Would Not Let Go of Gun

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man outside a gas station in Lynwood on Saturday morning, the Los Angeles Times reports. At a news conference on Sunday, officials showed a video and photos in which the man, 28-year-old Nicholas Robertson, appeared to be holding a gun.

Officials said that the two deputies shot Robertson after he fired six or seven shots into the air on a residential street and then walked into a shopping district. From the Times:

He entered at least one business on the boulevard, “behaving erratically with gun in hand,” said Capt. Steve Katz of the sheriff’s homicide unit. A video displayed at the news conference showed Robertson on the street appearing to hold a gun as the two deputies arrived.

Katz said “public safety was critical here” because there were people on the street, including some at a gas station that Robertson was walking toward. Robertson at one point pointed the gun in the deputies’ direction and ignored their commands for him to drop the weapon, he said.

The deputies opened fire, and in the video released Saturday, continued to shoot as Robertson was crawling. Authorities said he was continuing to hold the gun at that time. In all, one deputy fired 16 shots and the other fired 17.

Katz said that Robertson refused officer’s orders to drop his weapon even after having been shot. Police shared a still image, taken from security footage, which they said showed Robertson holding onto a gun. “When he collapsed, his arms were underneath him, and the gun was still in his hand,” Katz said. “There was never a time when the weapon was not in his possession.”

From the AP:

Katz estimated that the entire confrontation, from the time officers first ordered Robertson to drop the gun until the shooting was over, lasted about 30 seconds.

Asked if the officers were white, Katz said no but would not elaborate.

At least one other video of the shooting, taken by a witness, has been uploaded to social media.

“In this modern age of cellphone video and instant analysis on the Internet, I would ask that we keep in mind that a thorough and comprehensive investigation is detailed and time intensive,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said in a statement.

“It will involve, not just one source of information, but numerous sources, potentially including multiple videos, physical evidence and eyewitness accounts.”

In March, LAPD officers shot and killed a homeless man who they said was resisting arrest.

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Image via AP. Contact the author of this post: brendan.oconnor@gawker.com.

We Always Knew They'd Come Back: Here's The Trailer For Independence Day Resurgence

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We Always Knew They'd Come Back: Here's The Trailer For Independence Day Resurgence

Jeff Goldblum spent 20 years getting the planet ready after Earth was first invaded: now, the aliens are back. The first trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence has arrived!

The trailer for this looks like it’ll be quite a bit of fun, with all the beats of the original, and then some. We’re treated to the original film’s iconic speech, along with a montage of scenes showing off just how much has changed in two decades. In the years since, it looks like humanity has adopted the alien’s technology into our own, but even though we’ve been getting ready for another invasion, it isn’t quite enough.

Here’s the full trailer:

Independence Day: Resurgence will hit theaters on June 24, 2016

Officials Release Second Video in Fatal Police Shooting of Texas Man Apparently Raising Arms in Surrender

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Police have released a second video of the August shooting death of Gilbert Flores by two Bexar County sheriff’s deputies, which was caught on video, and which shows Flores raising his hands in apparent surrender. On Wednesday, a grand jury declined to indict the officers involved.

Gilbert Flores, 41, was shot and killed on August 28th. The first video, filmed at some distance, emerged a few days later. In it, Flores appears to raise his hands as the two officers, Greg Vasquez and Robert Sanchez, approach. One of his hands, however, is obscured by a utility pole.

After the grand jury declined to indict Vasquez and Sanchez last week, Bexar County District Attorney Nicholas LaHood told reporters, “This one was, I felt and my colleagues felt, was not clear cut, that it should be presented to a grand jury.”

“And it was,” LaHood said. “And we presented everything.”

On Wednesday, however, the second video had not yet been made public, NBC News reports. “We believe that Mr. Flores had a knife in his hand, and that video will help us have a better idea of exactly what he had in his hand,” Sheriff Susan Pamerleau said.

“There’s no doubt that what’s shown in that video is of great concern to all of us,” Pamerleau continued. “But we also want to get this right.”

The District Attorney’s office released the footage on Friday, according to the San Antonio Currant. The full video is nearly an hour long.

The sheriff’s department also released audio from the 911 call that the two deputies were responding to in the first place. From News 4 San Antonio:

“My son has gone crazy and he beat up his wife and she’s bleeding,” Flores’ wife said to the dispatcher.

“He tore up the marriage license and everything. He’s breaking everything in the room. And he’s got a knife. He’s got a knife!”

Periodically, you can hear Gilbert Flores yelling in the background of the phone call.

“What the—you’re going to have to kill me. You’re going to have to kill me. It’s my time to go,” he said.

About 30 seconds later, he said he’s armed and ready to confront law enforcement.

“I got a knife and I’m gonna suicide by cop. So if you bring a SWAT team or whoever, gonna get ready to pull the trigger because I’m going to die today,” Flores said.

His mother tells the dispatcher Gilbert hit his wife and his newborn baby.

“She has a black eye. The baby,” the mother said.

The dispatcher stays on the line, waiting for deputies to respond.

“What is your son’s name?” the dispatcher asked.

“Gilbert,” the mother responded.

“It’s Gilbert Flores. TDC #119929. I’m on parole. I’m not going back to prison. I’m going to die today. You better get ready to pull the trigger,” Gilbert said.

The Flores family have filed a lawsuit against the deputies and the sheriff’s office. On Wednesday, before the second video was public, Thomas Henry, a lawyer for the family, said, “When you put your hands up in this country, I believe most people think that you’re giving up and you’re no longer a threat.”


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Vandals Attack Facebook Offices in Germany

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Vandals Attack Facebook Offices in Germany

A group of 15-20 people wearing black clothes and hoods attacked the building housing Facebook’s offices in Hamburg, Germany, police said in a statement Saturday. Reuters reports that the vandals smashed glass, threw paint, and sprayed “Facebook dislike” on a wall. A Facebook spokesman said no one was injured.

While the motive for the attack wasn’t clear, Martin Ott, Facebook’s managing director for northern, central, and eastern Europe is being investigated for the platform’s alleged failure to remove racist hate speech, Reuters reports. Ott is based in Hamburg.

The investigation into Ott was announced last month. From Reuters, in November:

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, urged Facebook to do more this year on the matter, while the country’s justice ministry wants to set up a taskforce with the company, other social networks and internet service providers with the aim of identifying criminal posts more quickly and taking them down.

Facebook said it would not commenting on the investigation. “But we can say that the allegations lack merit and there has been no violation of German law by Facebook or its employees,” it added.

The company earlier announced a partnership with a group called FSM, which voluntarily monitors multimedia service providers, and said it would encourage its users to push back against racism.

Three similar investigations were also announced in October, thelocal.de reported. Facebook’s European headquarters are in Ireland, a complaint filed by a lawyer, Chan-jo Jun, against the Hamburg offices alleges that advertising revenue generated there allows the site to operate in Germany.

“Facebook Germany GmbH therefore promotes the dissemination of inflammatory, criminal content through actions in Germany that start in the German business headquarters in Hamburg,” the complaint argues.


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A Sentence Is Just a Bunch of Words

Woman Attempts Self-Abortion, Is Charged With Attempted Murder

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Woman Attempts Self-Abortion, Is Charged With Attempted Murder

A Tennessee woman who attempted self-abortion six months into her pregnancy has been charged with attempted murder in the first degree.

According to the Murfreesboro Post, 31-year-old Anna Yocca tried to terminate her pregnancy with a coat hanger. Detective Tommy Roberts has been following the case since earlier in the fall and obtained “an indictment on the charge” last Wednesday. From the Murfreesboro Post:

“Roberts began investigating the case in September when evidence showed Yocca went to her upstairs bathroom, filled the tub with water, got in and tried to ‘self-abort’ her pregnancy using a coat hanger, the report shows.

She became ‘alarmed and concerned for her safety when she saw a great deal of blood in the tub, and her boyfriend took her to St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital emergency room. From there, she was transported to St. Thomas Mid-Town in Nashville where staff members saved ‘Baby Yocca,’ the report shows.”

Although the baby boy survived, he only weighed 1.5 pounds at delivery and his “quality of life ‘will be forever harmed.’ He will need a medically-experienced foster parent, remain on oxygen and take medication daily because of problems with his eyes, lungs, and heart stemming from damage caused by the coat hanger.” He will likely encounter additional medical problems as he grows older.

Roberts tells the Post that according to the nurses and doctors he interviewed, Yocca had voiced a desire to terminate her pregnancy with a coat hanger when she was 24 weeks pregnant. She allegedly made other “disturbing statements” regarding the fetus.

Yocca has been incarcerated with bail set at $200,000.


Contact the author at rachel.vorona.cote@jezebel.com.

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Texas Oil Company Plans to Build an Entire Island Off the Alaskan Coast

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Texas Oil Company Plans to Build an Entire Island Off the Alaskan Coast

A Texas oil company is moving forward with plans to build a gravel island that would serve as a platform for at least five extraction wells six miles off the Alaskan coast. According to the Associated Press, this would be the first petroleum production project in federal Arctic waters.

Hilcorp Alaska LLC, a subsidiary of Hilcorp Energy Co., which is based in Houston, proposes trucking 83,000 cubic yards of gravel by ice road to a hole cut in the sea ice. The gravel will be dumped into 19 feet of water, forming the so-called 23-acre “Liberty Island,” in the Beaufort Sea. The work area will encompass 9.3 acres, protected by a barrier wall.

From the AP:

Standard rotary drills would extract oil. Hilcorp would move oil by a 5.6-mile undersea pipeline to shore and overland to the trans-Alaska pipeline.

Hilcorp projects a peak production rate of up to 70,000 barrels of oil per day within two years of initial production. Over 15 to 20 years, the company predicts it would yield 80 to 150 million barrels of oil.

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is assessing the proposed island’s environmental effect, in Foggy Island Bay, 15 miles east of Prudhoe Bay, the largest oil field in North America—a review which may not be completed until at least 2017.

There are at least four other oil fields in production from gravel islands off the Alaskan coast, Hilcorp spokeswoman Lori Nelson told the AP. “It’s proven to be a safe and effective means for oil and gas development in the Arctic,” she said. “Alaska has a 30-year record of safely operating offshore in the Arctic.”

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker gave Hilcorp his blessing in an October 14th letter to the bureau, writing, “With the recent announcement by Royal Dutch Shell regarding its Outer Continental Shelf development, the importance of Liberty Reservoir project has only increased.”

At the end of September, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, facing widely-publicized opposition after drilling an exploratory well further ashore, in the Chukchi Sea, announced that it would cease drilling offshore in the Arctic “for the foreseeable future.”

Walker, a former oil and gas attorney, has been a fan of Hilcorp since even before he was elected. Last year, Alaska Dispatch News reported, after Hilcorp announced that it was acquiring 15 percent of London-based oil giant BP’s production in Alaska (including a 50 percent interest in the Liberty fields), Walker, then a gubernatorial candidate, said, “Our future will depend on companies like Hilcorp coming up and doing what the bigger companies are not doing in some of the legacy fields.”

However, according to Lois Epstein of the Wilderness Society, because Hilcorp will be drilling in federal waters, Alaska will not receive any of the revenue. Alaskans would be the ones most directly effected by a spill, though.

Earlier this month, Hilcorp’s billionaire owner, Jeff Hildebrand, gave each of his 1,381 employees a $100,000 bonus after the company doubled its output to more than 150,000 barrels daily, Forbes reported.

“Mr. Jeff Hildebrand, and our president Greg Lalicker, they are such amazing motivators,” Amanda Thompson, a Hilcorp receptionist for 10 years, told Fox 4 News. “Somedays I just kind of look down the hall and say I cant believe these are my bosses and they’re the best.”


Liberty Island rendering via Hilcorp. Contact the author of this post: brendan.oconnor@gawker.com.

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Clinton Correctional Facility Has Been Horrible Since Long Before the Prison Break

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Clinton Correctional Facility Has Been Horrible Since Long Before the Prison Break

In June, the escape of two inmates from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, thrust security issues at the previously little-considered state prison into the spotlight. A New York Times investigation shows that problems at the facility go way beyond the inability to keep prisoners in their cells, and they’ve been going on for years.

The Times focuses on the case of Leonard Strickland, a Clinton inmate with schizophrenia who died in 2010 after what witnesses claimed was a brutal beating by a group of guards. He received woefully inadequate medical treatment before he died, and according to the autopsy report, he was covered in bruises, missing a tooth, and bleeding from the ears. A video obtained by the Times from after the alleged beating and just before his death shows Strickland apparently unable to stand as he is dragged by Clinton guards. None of the officers or medical professionals involved were punished, and many still work at the prison, the paper reports.

After the escape of Richard Matt and David Sweat this year, Clinton inmates were repeatedly beaten and choked by guards. A letter from an inmate provided to Gawker in June claimed that he had not been allowed outside of his cell for any reason for days after the escape.

Strickland’s case is not unique at Clinton, and Clinton is not unique among New York prisons. The Times also notes the case of Bradley Caesar, a mentally disabled Clinton inmate with no major disciplinary infractions on his record, who died in 2008 after a confrontation with guards. And in August, the paper reported on Samuel Harrell, a bipolar prisoner at Fishkill who was killed after a fight with a group of guards known colloquially as the “Beat Up Squad.” As of that report, no officers had been disciplined in connection with Harrell’s death.


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