A woman at tonight’s Athletics-Red Sox game left on a stretcher when she was reportedly hit in the face with a bat shard during Brett Lawrie’s plate appearance in the second inning. The game was delayed so medical staff could tend to her.

Lady struck in face by piece of broken bat. Bleeding heavily so being taken for medical attention thru field. Game in delay.

June 5, 2015

A fan was injured badly behind home plate, just to the third-base side, by Brett Lawrie's broken bat.

June 5, 2015

It was clear it was bad when another fan stripped off his shirt to apply to the injured fan's head.

June 5, 2015

A reader at the game sent video of medical staff wheeling the woman off the field. As a warning, the clip’s unpleasant. You’ll see blood and hear screaming:

The A’s broadcast acknowledged the injury:

Update (8:37 p.m.): Via AP photographer Charles Krupa, here’s a photo of the staff tending to the woman.

Update (9:45 p.m.): Per the Boston Globe, the woman was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. She was sitting with her son.

Update (11:15 p.m.): The Globe’s story now states that the woman was not sitting with her husband, only her son. The previous update has been edited to reflect that change.

Update (1:21 p.m., June 6): The Boston Globe reports that police told them the woman is in “serious but stable” at the hospital. They added that she is expected to survive.

A fan at the game, who says that he was sitting just a few feet away from the woman, has sent along the following picture that he took during Lawrie’s at-bat. It shows just how close to the batter the woman was, and how she was barely out of range of the protective netting.

[CSN Bay Area]

H/t to Matt

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I work at a soul-food restaurant owned by a very attractive black biracial man. The restaurant is located in South Los Angeles, across from what used to be the Magic Johnson Theater, a place once known for shootouts during movie screenings. But, I digress.

It is an upscale “Southern” restaurant where black customers regularly leave a ten-percent tip, or no tip at all. Elderly black women come in groups, laughing at jokes I can’t hear from the host stand; jokes that tickle their spines and make their eyes glisten with a thick nostalgia. I hope to be like these women one day, with friends on canes, some without. I want to be an old woman who still dresses up to go out, laugh, breathe, and order a meal with extra remoulade sauce.

These black women often ask me if the restaurant is black-owned. I say yes and smile, though none of the managerial staff is black.

One day, there is a black man with a dirty backpack walking in circles outside the restaurant. He seems lost, but intent on our parking lot as his found destination. I watch him, thinking of all the lost black men I encounter in Los Angeles, standing in front of 7-11s, restaurants, on corners without jackets or certainty. They look into my eyes but I look away, somewhere else. This man evokes fear in the white supervisor at my restaurant, a fear that prevents her from approaching him. Instead, she decides to gaze at him through our blinds. The white assistant chef enters, confused by this wandering black man in the parking lot. He says he shouldn’t be there because it will scare customers. Or, maybe he is the one who is scared?

We are in South Los Angeles, miles away from what used to be called The Jungle, an area notorious for its surge of violence during the 1990s, and we are worrying about a man with a tattered backpack and a hunger for our parking lot. We are in a food desert, happy to be the only restaurant serving upscale cuisine, while black men with lost souls stand outside of establishments not meant for them.

On a different day, a man comes in and asks if we serve chitlins. I tell him we don’t. He protests, saying you can’t be black if you haven’t eaten chitlins. I tell him I grew up Muslim and never ate pork. He leaves.

There’s a lot of empty land around this area, on Marlton. Tall weeds and rusty gates with signs that declare, “We Will Buy or Sell Your Property In Any Condition.”

Boarded-up stores tell a story of a time past. A time when The Flying Fox Bar brought in women in their Friday-best leather boots and fresh perms.

There’s a lot of land to cover with swanky places like ours, with upscale dining that many cannot afford. There’s a lot of land to cover with folks coming from the west side for a taste of soul food.

One day, an older black man with scattered dreadlocks tells me there are too many white people in the restaurant. I don’t know what this means, but I understand him. This is a “black” business in a predominately black area. But the owner’s mother is Italian. Her tanned complexion and full features might allow her to pass this customer’s test for South LA soul food sensibilities, but maybe not? Maybe he should go to M&M soul food down on Martin Luther King Boulevard.

They don’t serve sweet potatoes at our restaurant. I’ve never really understood southern cuisine without a sweet potato as part of the meal. Yams kept enslaved Africans alive in this country. They’d grow them in their personal plots of land to sustain whole families. Why are there no sweet potatoes on the menu? But there is sweet potato pie, good ol’ sweet potato pie. One elderly black woman tastes it and says it’s the worst sweet potato pie she’s ever had. She offers to come into the kitchen and make some for the restaurant because we obviously need help.

The other day, a customer refused service from a server because he is white. He wanted a black server. The man had come with his wife, or a woman he knew, and she left when it was clear he had no money to pay for his meal. She paid her $15 dollars and then drove off as he ran alongside the car. Upon trying to re-enter the restaurant, he was stopped by our manager. Later, he was seen peeing on the side of the restaurant. When I came into work later that day, a copy of the man’s driver’s license was being passed around the restaurant by staff whom were still whispering about the incident.

“Yeah, and he said Mike couldn’t serve him because he’s white. That’s so messed up. We’re people too,” said the daytime supervisor. I nod and listen, without reaction. But when I get back to the hostess stand, I can’t help but laugh. I can’t help but laugh at a rare reversal of prejudice in South LA. How many black Americans were brutalized at lunch counters, burned with hot coffee, and bit by dogs for trying to eat at American restaurants? As this story made the rounds in the restaurant, I thought it interesting the ways in which the staff reacted to Mike’s suffering. Poor Mike.

Nobody wants to sit with their back to the door. Many black customers express concerns when I seat them this way. They want to see who’s coming in the door. Years ago, it might’ve been someone dangerous, or just some man from the Nation of Islam selling bean pies. Now the developers are moving into Leimert Park with plans to build new hotels, restaurants, and condos.

Two customers ask me if this restaurant will be torn down when the “24-hour community” comes. They want to know if we will be on the bottom or the top of the new Mega City. I have no answer, so I go to the owner, who tells me we’re “staying put.” They smile when I return with that answer, happy that they will still be able to get cornbread and honey butter once Santa Rosalia Drive resembles The Grove.

That night, I go online to read about the new plans for the 24-hour community coming to Crenshaw. It is massive, encompassing plans for a pedestrian-oriented retail village and two million square feet of new commercial space. The Crenshaw Line light rail, which will be completed in 2019, will enable the movement of those who never thought to step foot in South LA, because it was either too dangerous, too far away, or too black. Now, it’s The New Place To Be.

I recently heard a white customer commenting on how clean and well-kept Leimert Park was as she drove through to get to the restaurant. She seemed genuinely surprised, as if Leimert Park was this new creation she discovered, and not a thriving neighborhood inhabited by generations of black residents who pass down property to daughters and nieces.

But what will happen to this restaurant in the midst of this changing landscape? Where it once signaled the communal changes welcomed by most residents—fine dining, an alternative social scene, healthy food options—it now risks being overcome by a more massive change. Will the community it helped revive become drowned out in the sea of redevelopment?

There’s a shooting near the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw Plaza when I arrive at work one Sunday night in April. My cousin sends me a text message, and asks if I’m alright. Three people are shot, but the details aren’t disclosed. Hours later, two more people are shot while driving a van down MLK. My manager says it’s all under control, but you wouldn’t be able to tell by the way he paces through the restaurant. Helicopters occupy the sky as fish are battered and cornbread is heated in our woodfire oven. No one in the restaurant knows what’s going on. My manager shakes his head and says, “This is a good neighborhood, but there’s still some of that left over, unfortunately.”

I remind myself this could happen anywhere.

Just days ago, I saw the neighboring FatBurger had abruptly closed—its building draped in banners for a new “Southern Diner” coming soon. Everyone wants a piece of the pie. And this area has gone without its share for years. Simply Wholesome was one of the only healthy, non-fast food options nearby, while Crenshaw Boulevard, between Exposition and West 39th, has been occupied by empty storefronts for years. Leimert Park, however, operates in its own historic, artistic sphere, with Eso Won bookstore, restaurants, and drum circles on Sunday. A new art gallery, Papillion, and art space, Art + Practice, have recently opened, rebuilding the area’s legacy.

There’s no way to classify all of these changes as one massive takeover. They aren’t. Some people here are active in their community, attend town hall meetings, and many own their own homes. But I wonder, what will Leimert Park look like and feel like next to a large hotel and condo complex? What happens to the many homeless people who call the actual park in Leimert Park their home? Will they be a part of the new vision for the area?

There are fears that Leimert Park and the surrounding Baldwin Hills community are becoming gentrified. They are. I wonder how much of those fears include the role of this restaurant in encouraging a certain outside migration. White people are moving to Baldwin Hills because they can afford the houses there. Beverly Hills and West Hollywood suddenly are now too expensive. There’s vacant land for building, lost black men, elderly black women, white college students who don’t know how to pronounce the word “Leimert,” and even black lesbians who frequent the restaurant quite regularly. There’s revitalization, but just down MLK are rows of rundown apartments and nondescript storefronts where black men and women hang out, scream, run across the street in hair rollers and wife beaters, living.

That division, or chasm between the have and have-nots, will not change because a soul food restaurant made you feel welcome.

Nijla Mu’min is a writer and filmmaker from the East Bay. She has written for Shadow & Act and Bitch Media. Mu’min is the recipient of the 2012 Princess Grace Award for her film, Deluge, a Sundance Institute Screenwriting Fellow, and was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the 2014 Urbanworld Film Festival, for her upcoming film, Noor. Find her on Twitter @Nijla1.

[Illustration by Tara Jacoby]

This month, a remote Idaho school district, to which it takes law enforcement officers approximately 45 minutes to travel, has purchased firearms and trained six staff members to use them in the event of a school shooting, the Associated Press reports.

According to the AP, limited funds have prevented the Garden Valley School District from hiring police officers to patrol the district’s single school building, where all 300 students in the district are taught. “I hope we never have to use them,” school board member Alan Ward said. “But in the event something did happen, we wanted to be prepared.”

“You just constantly are hearing about school invasions and we just simply do not want to have that occur in our district,” Ward told KBOI. But, according to the AP, the Idaho Department of Education reports that less than 10 “weapon-related” incidents—including guns, knives, and explosives—have been reported in the past two years.

“Garden Valley is in a unique circumstance,” Boise County Sheriff Ben Roeber told Idaho Education News. “Where they are located geographically, we don’t have the staffing size to where we can guarantee safety.”

The school board did not disclose how many or what type of firearms were purchased or where they would be stored, the AP reports. Ward estimated that the school spent around $3,500 on ammunition and training. The rest was donated by the community.

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

Since righting the vessel on Friday, rescue personnel have recovered hundreds of bodies from a capsized passenger ship on the Yangtze River, bringing the official death toll to 406 as of Saturday, the L.A. Times reports. According to the Associated Press, this makes the Eastern Star disaster the country’s deadliest maritime accident since 1948.

On Monday, the Eastern Star quickly overturned while traveling through rough weather, the ship’s captain reporting it had been hit by a cyclone. Weather officials later confirmed a tornado was recorded in the area at the time of the accident.

Of the 456 passengers and crew members reportedly on board, only 14 survivors have been found. This includes the Eastern Star’s captain and chief engineer, both of whom are now in police custody. As of Saturday, 36 people are still not accounted for.

[Image via AP Images]

Barnard College announced on Thursday that it will admit transgender women. Barnard joins a growing list of women’s colleges that have finally begun to create policies addressing both the admission and graduation of trans women.

The New York Times reports:

The new policy, which the board of trustees approved on Wednesday, welcomes applicants who “consistently live and identify as women, regardless of the gender assigned to them at birth.” Students who enter as female and then transition to male while at Barnard will be able to stay at the college and receive a Barnard degree.

Transgender men, who were assigned female at birth but identify as men at the time of application, are ineligible for admission, as are students who identify as neither gender, regardless of their birth sex.

Prior to the announcement, Barnard did not have any formal policy regarding the admission of trans women. The new policy, while certainly not perfect, is a step in the right direction; it closely follows the admission guidelines at Smith and Wellesley.

Despite progress, many other women’s colleges continue to lag behind. For example, Hollins University in Virginia (which, in full disclosure, is my alma mater) will only accept applicants born male if they have completed both sex reassignment surgery and the legal transformation. Hollins students who transition from female to male are considered ineligible for a degree.

Women’s college have been slow to address the admission and graduation of trans students looking, at times, seemingly out-of-touch with an issue that should be central to their campuses. Of all places, women’s colleges should be a place where gender is understood as an amorphous and shifting concept.

“Gender is at the center of a women’s college experience in a way that it’s not at a coeducational school,” Barnard English professor and trans woman Jennifer Finney Boylan told the New York Times. “So if you’re a young trans person trying to figure out who you are, and struggling with gender throughout your whole life, of course you’d come to one of these schools, because it’s going to help you figure out who you are.”

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Two Texas brothers who confessed to shooting a stranded dolphin to death with a compound bow were sentenced to one year of probation, 50 hours of community service and a shared $7,300 fine this week, KBTV reports.

Cory James Moseley, 23, and Cade Ryan Moseley, 18, faced a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $20,000 fine for violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

In July of 2014, authorities say the brothers were fishing on Cow Bayou in Southwest Texas when they spotted two stranded bottlenose dolphins and began firing arrows at them. From KFDM:

Cade Moseley hit one of the dolphins which swam away mortally wounded.

Wildlife agents were notified by a fisherman that there was a dead dolphin in the bayou. The deceased dolphin was recovered and an investigation resulted in federal charges against the Moseley brothers. The second dolphin was located in the bayou and rescued by wildlife agents and SeaWorld San Antonio personnel.

Nearby residents were reportedly outraged that anyone would harm the bayou’s dolphins “who never harmed anyone.”

“I think it is awful,” neighbor Tony Fuselier told KBMT earlier this year. “Just terrible for anyone to hurt dolphins, especially dolphins.”

During their one-year probation, the brothers will not be allowed to fish or hunt.

[Image via NOAA//h/t Raw Story]

On Friday, a jury in Los Angeles found Officer Mary O’Callaghan guilty of assault under color of authority, the Los Angeles Times reports. Video shows O’Callaghan slapping and kicking the handcuffed Alesia Thomas, who lost consciousness and died soon after, in the back of her squad car. O’Callaghan was not charged in Thomas’ death.

According to the Times, in the full, un-edited video of the July 2012 arrest, Thomas is shown breathing heavily and repeating the words, “I can’t.” The Times also reports that Thomas asked officers to call an ambulance 30 minutes before one was:

A video from a dashboard camera in another patrol car, which was also played during the trial, recorded O’Callaghan laughing and smoking a cigarette as she peeked inside the car at Thomas, whose legs were tied with a nylon hobble restraint.

“That ain’t a good sign,” O’Callaghan says out loud in the video.

Assistant Head Deputy Dist. Atty. Shannon Presby told jurors that O’Callaghan was “immune from any empathy” and that the video clearly showed the officer kicking Thomas in the crotch and the stomach.

The Times reports that an L.A. county coroner’s autopsy determined that cocaine intoxication was likely a “major factor” in Thomas’ death, but that it was not possibly to assess how much of an effect the struggle with O’Callaghan had. The official cause of Thomas’ death was “undetermined.”

Before she died, Thomas, who suffered from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and drug addiction, left her 3-year-old and 12-year-old children at the LAPD’s Southeast Area station, the Times reported in 2013:

Thomas was attempting to surrender the children to police custody because she felt she could no longer care for them properly, police officials and an attorney representing Thomas’ family have said.

Officers went in search of Thomas and found her at her home in the 9000 block of South Broadway in South L.A. After questioning her, the officers attempted to arrest her on suspicion of child endangerment, the department’s account said.

“I am pleased that the jury agreed with our assessment of the evidence in this case,” District Attorney Jackie Lacey said in a statement on Friday. “The verdict proves the criminal justice system works.”

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

WNBA star Brittney Griner filed for an annulment of her marriage to fellow WNBA player Glory Johnson yesterday, one day after Johnson announced that she was expecting a child. There is a lot going on here, so let’s refresh our memories with a timeline.

August 14, 2014

Griner announces on Instagram that she and Johnson are engaged:

April 22

Griner and Johnson are arrested after a fight between the two becomes violent. They are arrested in the Goodyear (Ariz.) home that they bought together two days earlier.

April 28

Griner—but importantly not Johnson—pleads guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct, and as a condition of her plea enters a domestic violence diversion program.

May 8

Griner and Johnson are married at a Phoenix-area resort:

May 15

After a thorough-seeming investigation into their arrests, which they say included interviews with the players and witnesses as well as reviewing “the police report, medical records, photos and other materials,” the WNBA suspends Griner and Johnson for seven games without pay apiece, determining that they are equally at fault. In a statement, the WNBA says their account of the incident was “largely undisputed,” and describes it thusly:

Brittney and Glory were involved in a physical altercation with each other at their home. It began when Glory pushed Brittney in the shoulder and Brittney pushed Glory in the back of the neck. The confrontation escalated to include wrestling, punches, and the throwing and swinging of various objects. Brittney received a bite wound on her finger and scratches on her wrist, and Glory received a scratch above her lip and was diagnosed with a concussion.

On April 28, Brittney pleaded guilty in Goodyear City Court to misdemeanor disorderly conduct and entered a diversion program. The assault charge was dismissed. Brittney is required to complete a 26-week domestic violence course, and if she successfully completes the course (and meets other standard conditions), the disorderly conduct charge will be dismissed. Glory’s case was transferred to county court and is still pending.

June 2

Sports Illustrated publishes a story on the fight that led to Griner and Johnson’s arrests, which includes information from a medical evaluation (given to them by Johnson’s lawyer) completed two days after the arrests. The evaluation says Johnson was hit twice by a “hard carrying case,” and a CT scan shows she suffered a concussion. In an interview, Johnson says that Griner was the aggressor:

If I’m being fought,” Johnson said during an exclusive interview with SI.com last Thursday. “I’m not just gonna sit back … there’s probably a better way to handle it. But at the time … you’re just thinking of protecting yourself and doing what you need to do to stand up for yourself.”

She also disputes the WNBA’s conclusion about the incident, and while she is clearly hesitant to say that she is innocent and Griner is guilty, she more or less does:

“[The WNBA] definitely knew about it,” Johnson said, referring to her injuries and how they occurred. “And that’s another reason it surprised me that they came up with the same conclusion. I’m not going to throw Brittney under the bus … and she’s not going to throw me under the bus … [but] what the [WNBA] did not say in the statements they released was that I pled not guilty … So for them to release a statement saying that we were both guilty in the situation, it’s not right. It’s not correct … Brittney pled guilty … Brittney understands why I pled not guilty, and I understand why she pled guilty … she was even willing to speak to whoever she needed to, to get the point across.”

Sports Illustrated identifies many instances of confusion regarding the case. Johnson says that police officers told her that when a same-sex couple gets into a fight, the policy is to arrest them both, while a Goodyear police officer tells SI that the policy was either “misunderstood or misrepresented” to Johnson, and that both parties are arrested only when officers cannot determine the aggressor. After being asked to comment, the Tulsa Shock (Johnson’s team) stands by the WNBA’s findings, while the Phoenix Mercury (Griner’s team) say they are confused because the medical evaluation information wasn’t in the police report they saw.

Nevertheless, Johnson tells SI that she loves Griner, and SI writes “throughout last Thursday’s [May 30] phone conversation, she laughed whenever Griner’s name came up—there was a lightness in her voice, even when she was describing something difficult between them.” Johnson also says she and Griner have met with fertility doctors, but that she is looking forward to playing against Griner this season.

June 4

The Tulsa Shock announces that Johnson is pregnant and will miss the upcoming season. In the statement Johnson says:

“It has always been a dream of mine to start a family with someone I love,” said Johnson-Griner. “Being a professional athlete that plays year round, there is never a perfect time to get pregnant without putting my career on hold.

The entire process, from learning our fertility options, to making the sacrifices necessary nine months before this child is born, is merely preparing me to become a great wife and an even better mother. The hardest part is sitting out this WNBA season, being away from my loving teammates, and not being able to be on the court and play for our devoted fans.

Right now, I not only have my health to worry about, but also the health of this little one resting inside me. Rest assured, I will be back next season, stronger and more ready to play then ever!”

June 5

TMZ reports that Griner has filed annulment papers, just 28 days after the wedding. The papers allege “fraud and duress” and that Griner was “pressured into marriage under duress by [Johnson’s] threatening statements.” They also say that Griner has no biological connection to the child that Johnson is pregnant with.

ESPN obtains the following statement from Griner:

“Last Wednesday, Glory and I agreed to either legally separate, get divorced, or annul our marriage. I can confirm that today I filed for an annulment. In the week prior to the wedding, I attempted to postpone the wedding several times until I completed counseling, but I still went through with it. I now realize that was a mistake.”

They also speak with Johnson’s agent, who tells ESPN that she is “extremely hurt and blindsided” by the unexpected filing, and that Johnson “loves Brittney and made a huge sacrifice to carry a child, put her career on hold, invest in their relationship and their future.”

Meanwhile, the WNBA season opens en masse, and the Mercury beat the San Antonio Stars while the Shock lose to the Minnesota Lynx. Neither Johnson nor Griner play.

So in the past six weeks Griner and Johnson bought a house, were arrested, had a wedding, got pregnant, and now are apparently separating. Those are all momentous occasions; any one of them occurring is a big deal, let alone all five of them. Given Johnson’s apparent surprise at the filing of the annulment and the fact that she is pregnant, there is certainly more to come with this story. I feel pretty confident in saying that it isn’t going to end well.

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This weekend, at the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge, robots built by teams from around the world will accomplish complex tasks like driving a vehicle and walking up stairs. This is a compilation video of those robots falling down. Laugh at them now, with whatever short-lived impunity we may still have.

“It’s amazing how we anthropomorphize these things,” DARPA program manager Dr. Gill Pratt said at a media briefing yesterday, IEEE Spectrum reports. “It’s a pile of aluminum and copper wire and software. I don’t cheer for my laptop. But people cheer for these [robots]. And of course when it falls, we all feel terrible, ‘Uh, it got hurt.’”

Is that how we all feel, Dr. Pratt?

H/T Digg. Contact the author of this post with information about how to join the Resistance when the time comes: brendan.oconnor@gawker.com.

Police said Saturday that two inmates convicted of murder escaped overnight from the largest prison in New York by tunneling their way out, according to the New York Times. “When you look at how the operation was done, it was extraordinary,” Governor Andrew Cuomo said.

We're delighted to share the first photo of Prince George with his little sister Princess Charlotte pic.twitter.com/lJbWwsqFva

June 6, 2015

Since her birth early last month, a number of questions have lingered about reigning royal baby Princess Charlotte. Is she, for instance, the same royal baby we’ve seen before or different one entirely? If different, which of the two babies is larger? And does this (supposedly) new royal baby look kinda freaked out?

Today, the royal family answered all those questions and more by releasing a photo of Prince George and Princess Charlotte reportedly taken by their mother, who, while not a baby, is also royalty and therefore notable.

The historic image represents the only recorded meeting of the two royal babies, and the first picture of Charlotte since the day she was born.

Additional photographs from the same series are set to appear in The Sunday Telegraph tomorrow, and while Charlotte seems considerably less freaked out in them, the pictures appear to confirm that she is, in fact, the smaller of the two royal babies.

UPDATE 5:15 p.m.: Kensington Palace has released additional photos of the old and new royal babies.

Prince George and Princess Charlotte together at home #WelcomeToTheFamily pic.twitter.com/ednbofPp7v

June 6, 2015

The Barclays interns who received an absurd email about their upcoming summer at the investment bank may still have to provide their neckties for use as napkins, but it won’t come at the behest of the email’s sender, Justin Kwan, who, according to a source, lost two jobs this week after his missive leaked to the Wall Street Journal.

Kwan, who was a second-year analyst in Barclays’ Global Power & Utilities group, was let go by the bank on Friday, our source says. It was not exactly an unexpected move by Barclays—the New York Daily News reported late Thursday night that the bank was very likely to fire the man who had brought it a bit of bad publicity. (Barclays, which previously refused to remark on Kwan’s employment, did not respond to a request for comment.) This comes at a time in which Wall Street is wrestling with how to allow its minions to experience even a sliver of life outside of banking while still making unseemly sums of money for their employers.

Kwan, though, according to our source, was set to leave Barclays at some point this summer anyway for a job at the prestigious asset management firm The Carlyle Group. But after the email fiasco, The Carlyle Group preemptively fired him, leaving him out two gigs. (Through a spokesperson, The Carlyle Group declined comment.) Because he was fired from Barclays, our source tells us, Kwan also will not get the bonus that he was scheduled to receive upon leaving the bank.

Wall Street chooses not to learn too many lessons, but here’s one to keep in mind: if you’re going to be an asshole banker, make sure you don’t formalize it an email so degrading that its recipients can’t help but share it with the unwashed masses.

[image via Getty]

Contact the author at jordan@gawker.com.

On Friday, Chris Brown added “shitty friend” to his considerable list of achievements in the field of assholery, sharing a hateful meme on Instagram that referred to the recently transitioned Caitlyn Jenner as a “science project.”

Kylie Jenner, the girlfriend of frequent Brown collaborator Tyga, soon called him out on the aforementioned shittiness, commenting “Not very nice to say about your friends dad” on the photo and posting the following message on Twitter:

State what you want about the world without bashing others. Leave a positive impact 💕

June 5, 2015

In an unusual act of self-awareness, Brown seemed to realize calling your friend’s parent a “science project” was indeed not a very nice thing to do and deleted the image, uploading an entirely different obnoxious photo.

Good job, Chris Brown, you’re still an asshole.

[Images via Getty Images//h/t Uproxx]

American Pharoah won today’s Belmont Stakes and completed horse racing’s first Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978. American Pharoah won the race with a time of 2:26.55, beating Frosted by five lengths in a dominating performance. Victor Espinoza spoke for the world: “Holy shit!”

It marks the first Triple Crown in my lifetime, and most likely yours as well. Thirteen horses had previously won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness only to lose at the 1.5-mile distance on Long Island.

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Today, a certain blogger, who will not be named, suggested we take advantage of “whatever short-lived impunity we may still have” and enjoy a good laugh at the expense of some falling robots.

I am writing now to warn you this would be a terrible mistake.

As the following three videos demonstrate, the uprising is already upon us and our only hope for survival is complete, mewling submission at the (unsteady) iron feet of our mechanical masters.

Jesus.

Jesus Christ.

May God have mercy on us all.

[Image via YouTube//h/t The Daily Dot/Sploid]

I went to the Bronx Zoo on this lovely New York Saturday hoping to see some lions and other cool animal friends and maybe get an airbrush tattoo. I did not expect to see two grizzly bears fuck for approximately ten minutes (partial video below), but life can unfurl itself in exciting ways when you least expect it.

As my friends and I approached the bear area at around 4 p.m., it seemed as if the bears were having a picnic. They were chilling out pretty hardcore, Greco-Roman style. Little did we know that it was bear mating season. Suddenly one bear sat upright and started moving his arm up and down as if he were waving. Haha, that’s funny, I thought. He’s waving to us. He was actually whacking his dick, my friend told me.

As soon as the bear excited himself thusly he mounted his female companion from behind and the sex act commenced. The bears’ lovemaking was somewhat human (not to anthropomorphize it too much, but, you know, it’s fun!). The female seemed kind of bored and like she wanted out of it, the dude was clumsy, and there was some weird biting. Oh, and also there was another bear who stuck its head in at the end and the two lovers got in a roaring fight.

All in all, it was difficult to tell if any beargasms were achieved. But let it be known that sex was had in the Bronx today.

A homeless man has been arrested after he allegedly pushed a transgender woman onto the subway tracks in Greenwich Village earlier this week, Reuters reports. Police said Saturday he had been charged with second-degree attempted murder as a hate crime.

Police identified the man as 32-year-old Rolan Reid. When they made the arrest at the Canal Street station on Saturday, he threatened them, “I’m going to throw you guys onto the tracks,’’ the New York Post reports.

Later, Reid was taken to a hospital for psychological evaluation, police said. He also reportedly made statements to police incriminating himself.

The 28-year-old woman was treated and released from a hospital after the attack on Monday morning. According to the Associated Press, She was standing on a platform at the Bleecker Street station when Reid allegedly yelled at her, “What are you looking at” before pushing her onto the tracks. Her attacker fled, and another rider helped her back up onto the platform.

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The two murder convicts who escaped from upstate New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility overnight on Friday left a a very polite and very racist note telling police and everyone, “Have a nice day!”

The escaped inmates—Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34—had tricked guards using dummy bodies built out of sweatshirts while using mysteriously-acquired power tools to drill through walls and pipes, the New York Times reports. Anthony Annuci, the acting state corrections commissioner, told the Associated Press that the men’s absence was discovered during an early morning bed check on Saturday.

“A search revealed that there was a hole cut out of the back of the cell through which these inmates escaped,” Annucci said. “They went on to a catwalk which is about six stories high. We estimate they climbed down and had power tools and were able to get out to this facility through tunnels, cutting away at several spots.”

On Sunday, Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke to ABC’s “Good Morning America,” the Times reports. He speculated that other prisoners might be covering for the escapees.

“I chatted with a couple of the inmates myself and said, ‘You must be a very heavy sleeper,’” Cuomo said. “They were heard, they had to be heard.”

At one point along their subterranean escape route, the prisoners left a racist note for anyone following them to find. (Animal New York has a good run-down of some of the euphemistic language media coverage of the escape has used to describe the note so far.)

.@NYGovCuomo looks at pipe used as part of escape. You can see aforementioned note in background. pic.twitter.com/QcJDXh0yHM

June 6, 2015

One more close up of the note left on pipe that 2 inmates used to escape Clinton Correctional in #Dannemora pic.twitter.com/GFYqFOOE8e

June 7, 2015

According to the Times, the note features “a caricature of a man wearing a conical hat appears above the words: ‘Have a nice day!’” Hmm. Meanwhile, the AP describes the note as “a yellow square of paper with a smiling, bucktoothed face.” Closer! But it’s racist. It’s a racist caricature of an Asian man.

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On Saturday, video was uploaded to Youtube of police officers screaming at and arresting children at a community pool in Texas. One officer, confronted by two boys while grabbing a young girl by the neck and shoving her head towards the ground, pulls his gun and points it at them.

According to a police statement posted to Facebook, McKinney, Texas police responded on Friday evening to a “disturbance” call regarding a group of teenagers who “do not live in the area or have permission to be there.”

A fight had reportedly broken out at the Craig Ranch North Community Pool when the police were called. “When the cops showed up everyone ran, including the people who didn’t do anything,” the description of the Youtube video reads. “So the cops just started putting everyone on the ground and in handcuffs for no reason. This kind of force is uncalled for especially on children and innocent bystanders.”

From the police statement:

First responding officers encountered a large crowd that refused to comply with police commands. Nine additional units responded to the scene. Officers were eventually able to gain control of the situation.

McKinney Police later learned of a video that was taken at the scene by an unknown party. This video has raised concerns that are being investigated by the McKinney Police Department. At this time, one of the responding officers has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of this investigation.

The statement does not specify which of the responding officers has been suspended or which part of the video “raised concerns.” Was it, indeed, the part where an officer pulls his weapon on two unarmed boys? Or was it the part where he drives his knee into a teenage girl’s back—a girl who, in fact, was apparently following his orders to leave the area when he changed his mind and decided to arrest her—and screams in her face?

Then again, perhaps it was the part when he interrupts another officer who is trying to talk to a group of teenagers—two of whom return to him a flashlight dropped by an officer who was sprinting around tackling people—like human beings, wrestling one to the ground and yelling, “Get on the ground. I told you to stay.”

Later, this officer explains, “I personally told you to get on the ground and stay. What did you do when I walked away? You did what everybody else did, and what everybody else did was illegal. You did it, and you got caught. Now, you’re sitting here, paying for it.”

As it happens, it would appear that this is the same officer who pulled his gun for no reason. One can only imagine why two young black males would want to run away from such a person.
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Update, 2:05 p.m. – Buzzfeed News spoke to Brandon Brooks, who uploaded the video to Youtube. “I think a bunch of white parents were angry that a bunch of black kids who don’t live in the neighborhood were in the pool,” he said. “Everyone who was getting put on the ground was black, Mexican, Arabic,” he said. “[The cop] didn’t even look at me. It was kind of like I was invisible.” Brooks is white.

Update, 6:33 p.m. - The suspended officer has been identified as Corporal Eric Casebolt.

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According to the Sunday Mirror, Chester Hanks, the slightly-less-beloved son of beloved actor Tom Hanks, is wanted by police in Britain after losing his shit and causing more than $1800 in damage to a hotel room near Gatwick Airport, 28 miles south of London.

A police spokesperson confirmed that a 24-year-old American is wanted for questioning over the incident, but did not name the suspect.

Citing an (honestly pretty sketchy-sounding) anonymous source, the paper reports that Chet arrived at the hotel with three women after an embarrassing club visit where he repeatedly asked, “Do you know who I am?” and “nobody recognized him.” From the Mirror:

“He asked the girls if they would join him in the bed, but they are not like that. So he started screaming and making a right noise. He saw some sprinkled make-up called banana powder and started asking ‘who’s got the coke?’ But nobody did drugs there.

“Then he started shouting that he was not going to share it with another man.”

Angry airline pilots staying at the hotel complained about the noise before a receptionist went up to the room to plead with Hanks to keep quiet.

The source added: “Then all you could hear was this smashing and crashing. Next morning he was gone but the room was trashed. Everything was smashed and there was glass all over the floor.”

In a text to the Mirror, Chet reportedly refuted the account as “a slanderous bold-faced lie” and threatened the paper with legal action.

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