Vol. 49 No. 50
April 4, 2019 - April 10, 2019
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Suspect in Nipsey Hussle shooting is arrested
Publisher’s Corner Email: sbamericannews@gmail.com Clifton Harris Editor in Chief Publisher of The San Bernardino AMERICAN News
COMMENTARY: White ISIS? By Vincent L. Hall, Activist, Texas Metro News/Garland Journal
By RICHARD WINTON, JACLYN COSGROVE, ANGEL JENNINGS and DORANY PINEDA
“Senior Political Correspondent” Hasan Minhaj and Trevor Noah of The Daily show
A suspect is identified in Nipsey Hussle's fatal shooting as Mayor Garcetti asks for the public's help with the investigation.
Murder victim Nipsey Hussle A suspect in the killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle is in custody, authorities said, ending a two-day manhunt. Eric Holder, 29, was arrested in Bellflower on Tuesday afternoon. Los Angeles police detectives went to the L.A. County sheriff’s station in Lakewood to verify the identity of the suspect and confirmed to The Times that the man in custody was Holder The arrest came after a woman who authorities allege was Holder’s getaway driver turned herself in. L.A. Police Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday that Holder got into a verbal altercation with Hussle on Sunday afternoon. “Mr. Holder walked up on multiple occasions and engaged in conversations” with the rapper, Moore said. “He came back armed with a handgun” and opened fire. Moore said investigators believed the shooting was the result of a "personal matter between the two of them" but would not elaborate. Moore and Mayor Eric Garcetti both acknowledged a recent uptick in violence, particularly in South Los Angeles, and noted that Hussle’s legacy was one of peace. “Nipsey Hussle represents the enormity of the lives we have lost,” Moore said. Graphic video from a surveillance camera shows a gunman walking up to Hussle and two other men in front of the shop the rapper owned in a Slauson Avenue strip mall. The gunman then opens fire and Hussle falls to the
ground as the other two men run from the gunfire. “Nipsey Hussle,” Garcetti said, “was an artist who touched our city and lives far beyond the City of Angels, throughout the country and the world.” The mayor said the worst way to answer the killing was with more violence and that he hoped “the community comes together” to achieve the goals the rapper had set in recent years. “This is about young people of color being able to have opportunities in their lives,” he said. Hussle “was a tireless advocate for the young people of this city and of this world,” he said, “to lift them up with the possibility of not being imprisoned by where you come from or past mistakes but the possibility of what comes in the future.” The L.A. County coroner’s office said Monday that Hussle died of a gunshot wound to the head. Police released Holder’s name Monday night, when a stampede at a memorial vigil for Hussle led to several injuries. Eric Holder, identified as a suspect in Nipsey Hussle's slaying, in an undated photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department. Eric Holder, identified as a suspect in Nipsey Hussle's slaying, in an undated photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department. (LAPD) While a member of the crowd spoke of the late rapper at the memorial, dozens of people gathered for the event outside Hussle’s
Eric Holder, identified as a suspect in Nipsey Hussle's slaying, in an undated photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department. (LAPD) store started running away. People fell on top of each other as they tried to flee, some of them losing their shoes in the scramble to get away. Numerous police cars and ambulances raced to the scene as officers yelled at people to leave the area. Robert Arcos, an LAPD assistant chief, told The Times that a fight appeared to have started the stampede after one person possibly pulled out a gun. The Los Angeles Fire Department took 19 people to hospitals: two people who were in critical condition, including one hurt in a car accident; two people with serious injuries; and 15 with nonlife-threatening injuries. The majority of the patients suffered injuries related to being trampled when the crowd rushed away. A Los Angeles Times reporter at the scene was among those trampled. Reporters in the area said on social media that authorities had said at least six people were stabbed, which is thought to have caused or contributed to the chaos. Hundreds of novena candles left in memory of Hussle — who
was shot and killed Sunday in broad daylight in a burst of gunfire that left two other people wounded — were crushed as people fled. The shards injured several people, and many were limping as they tried to find their way around police barricades. It remains unclear whether anyone was actually stabbed or if they were injured by broken glass. Moore praised the restraint of the police officers who tried to control the situation. Bottles were thrown at some officers, and a sergeant had to have stitches for a wound to his hand. The LAPD is working with community leaders to clean the area, protect the memorial and make it safe for visitors, Moore said. Hussle made no secret of his early life in a street gang, saying in a 2014 interview with YouTube channel Vlad TV that he had joined the Rollin’ 60s, a notorious Crips gang clique, as a teenager. “We dealt with death, with murder,” he told The Times in 2018. “It was like living in a war zone, where people die on these blocks and everybody is a little bit im(continued on page 6)
More than 5,800 stores are closing in 2019 as the retail apocalypse drags on — here's the full list Hayley Peterson
Retailers are closing thousands of stores. Seph Lawless More than 5,800 stores are expected to close in 2019. LifeWay said Thursday that it planned to close all 170 of its stores.
Charlotte Russe, Family Dollar, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Chico's recently announced more than 1,100 store closures in a span of 24 hours.
Payless has said it plans to close all of its 2,500 stores in what could be the largest retail liquidation in history. The staggering rate of store closures that has rocked the retail industry over the last couple of years is expected to continue in 2019, with roughly the same level of closures expected this year. Retailers closed a record-breaking 102 million square feet of store space in 2017, then smashed that record in 2018 by closing another 155 million square feet of space, according to estimates by the commercial real estate firm CoStar Group. "This year we are predicting
more of the same in the retail space," said Drew Myers, a CoStar senior consultant. Retailers have announced more than 5,800 store closures so far this year, according to an analysis by Business Insider. Here's a list of all the stores closing this year: Payless ShoeSource: 2,500 stores A Payless ShoeSource store is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York Damian Dovarganes/AP Payless filed for bankruptcy in February and said it planned to close all of its 2,500 stores in what (continued on page 8)
“Senior Political Correspondent” Hasan Minhaj and Trevor Noah of The Daily Show are cocreators. After another man-made catastrophe, Minhaj, an American Muslim and Noah unveiled a name for White terrorists: “White ISIS” or “WISIS.” They pointed to the ugliness of terrorism, which somehow becomes more tolerable when a White male suspect is the perpetrator. The “WISIS” agent who killed 50 in New Zealand’s oldest city was intentional about his crimes. Don’t sleep on the fact that this third rate philosopher committed his atrocities on innocents in a town called Christchurch. He didn’t pick this spot without forethought. Choosing Christchurch was his sick attempt at creating a “double entendre.” Most White Supremacists swear they’re God‘s chosen vessel for dominance and preeminence in the world. The mass assassination of defenseless Muslims by a “powerful White man” in a seaboard city called Christchurch was no happenstance. At the risk of repeating this for the 211th time, Chris Rock bears repeating: “I’m not worried about Al Qaeda. I’m going to Al Cracker.” The complexity of detecting and disarming WISIS members is multifaceted and Americans from beige to blueblack need to be cautions. Here is something I wrote in December 2016, before Trump and his inaugural gang scattered $103,000,000 that they still can’t fully account for. “As someone who studied Marcus Garvey and his Pan-African movement, I see some potential alliances forming. Trump in America, Brexit in England and Putin in Russia could be the stitch point in the fabric for a “Pan-European” quilt…A “reconstruction” of global White supremacy and colonialism of sorts. Garvey and his followers simply wanted to end the global oppression of dark-skinned peoples. Trump et al appear to want to unify White peoples all over the world while simultaneously taking control of the economic, military and political systems. It may sound far-fetched, but totalitarianism and colonialism are in Europe’s DNA.” Now eavesdrop on what Trump said to Breitbart. He actually tweeted a link to the Breitbart article but deleted it a few hours
after the massacre in New Zealand. “It’s so terrible what’s happening. You know, the left plays a tougher game, it’s very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don’t play it tougher. Okay? I can tell you, I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad. But the left plays it cuter and tougher.” What miffs me, like it did my Black grandmother, is a chump who throws a rock and hides their hand. Notice how Trump always finds refuge behind people and symbols that are considered taboo or too sacred to take on. Trump understands that any questions or concerns on patriotism and the flag, the national anthem, the police, the military, first responders or Jews, becomes a virtual mine field. It requires so much finesse that most let the argument slide. Trump is good at lobbing grenades and then conveniently cradling a baby when it’s time to return fire. In my neighborhood they call that a “Bitch move” but I’ll leave that nomenclature to your own cultural biases. Trump is equally skilled at pointing out the usual suspects; Blacks, Mexicans, Muslims, Immigrants and “Liberal Whites.” He has used newly elected U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar like he uses the flag. “Grumpy” Trump is the consummate race-baiter and culture provocateur. CBS News made the epidemic plain. “ISIS inspired their flock online and White Supremacists do too. Far-right attacks in Europe jumped 43 percent between 2016 and 2017. In the U.S., right-wing extremists were linked to at least 50 murders last year, a 35 percent increase over 2017.” You can call them PanEuropeanists. You can call them WISIS. But hostile White terrorists in America and abroad must be called out. Grumpy Trump won’t, so we must!! Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BlackPressUSA.com or the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
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