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Cadet sues R&B singer LaBelle over airport beating
HOUSTON CHRONICLE ^ | 6/2/11 | ALLAN TURNER

Posted on 06/03/2011 8:48:26 AM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild

Lawyers for a West Point cadet who says bodyguards for soul singer Patti LaBelle beat him while he was waiting for a ride at a Houston airport released security video Thursday showing the student being pushed and punched by two men and a woman.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7592273.html#ixzz1OEBHK1oZ

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


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KEYWORDS: cadet; pattilabelle; richardking; westpoint
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To: Constitutions Grandchild

And why exactly these “security” personnel are not in JAIL along with The Fat Broad that ordered this Beatdown is Beyond me. And Cops wonder why Most People think they are nothing but Jack Booted Thugs, not only should the Cops be fired they should be Jailed for Misprison of a Felony, Accessory to a Street Crime, And Deprivation of Rights. The instant they chose not to enforce the Law, They became Accessories to the Crime. 10 Years in State prison is where they Belong. THE WHOLE BUNCH


21 posted on 06/03/2011 9:25:42 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Constitutions Grandchild

bump for later viewing.


22 posted on 06/03/2011 9:26:40 AM PDT by pgkdan ( Time for a Cain Mutiny!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
King's attorney, John Raley, said Thursday that his client had been suspended from West Point as a result of the episode and placed in a "mentorship" program which will require active-duty status of at least a year.

That doesn't sound like "suspended" that sounds like "expelled". Being expelled from a military academy during the junior or senior year usually involves active duty service until the 'debt' is repaid.

23 posted on 06/03/2011 9:28:45 AM PDT by Tallguy (Received a fine from the NFL for a helmet-to-helmet hit.)
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To: Constitutions Grandchild

Who does LaBelle think she is, Martha Coakley?


24 posted on 06/03/2011 9:31:10 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Tallguy

That’s what I thought. I’m hoping it isn’t the case, but it sure sounds like it. His career was ended because he wandered into the wrong place with the wrong people. I can hardly stomach it.


25 posted on 06/03/2011 9:32:18 AM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: I cannot think of a name
Celebrity?

Her first "hit" (ca early-1960s) was "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman." Need I say more?

26 posted on 06/03/2011 9:32:36 AM PDT by CDB
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To: Constitutions Grandchild

The picture taking of LaBelle with the cops is simply detestable. I hope King has witnesses who come forward to testify as to the truth of what happened, as King doesn’t appear to be protected or served by police in this instance.


27 posted on 06/03/2011 9:34:14 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: Constitutions Grandchild

She’s gonna have to write a big fat check, that’s for sure. No doubt.


28 posted on 06/03/2011 9:34:25 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Constitutions Grandchild

Video

http://www.gossipcop.com/patti-labelle-bodyguards-attack-video-richard-king-houston-airport-beat-beating-beatdown-assault-sued-lawsuit/


29 posted on 06/03/2011 9:35:37 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: Constitutions Grandchild
Talk about swift 'justice' ....

"King's attorney, John Raley, said Thursday that his client had been suspended from West Point as a result of the episode and placed in a "mentorship" program which will require active-duty status of at least a year."

30 posted on 06/03/2011 9:41:15 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: headstamp 2

It looks like the redshirted thug kicked him when down. Who is the man in the white cowboy hat? He and the green shirt guy hold off the red shirt at one point.

Vicious. Hope the red-shirt, at least, gets felony assault and battery charges made against him.


31 posted on 06/03/2011 9:45:56 AM PDT by bvw
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To: SeeSac

FUBU Obama justise, it looks like. Some West Point grads better make some inquiries—this video and the anti-white race thing of La Belle and presumably her bodyguards raise real questions.


32 posted on 06/03/2011 9:49:05 AM PDT by bvw
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To: Constitutions Grandchild
WTF is wrong with the administration of West Point? They suspend this young man for getting beat up by two gangsta goons?!

If I was in charge, I'd send the person who suspended him to the Russian front with Klink.

33 posted on 06/03/2011 9:50:15 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Constitutions Grandchild

Another disgusting “celebrity” with her entourage beating a man senseless and Houston PD is complicit in ruining this guy’s career as an Army officer. I am so pissed seeing this. She comes to my neck of the woods and I will organize a protest and boycott of any who dare to sponsor her.


34 posted on 06/03/2011 9:51:10 AM PDT by PAMadMax (Islam is a disease....)
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To: SeeSac
"King's attorney, John Raley, said Thursday that his client had been suspended from West Point as a result of the episode and placed in a "mentorship" program which will require active-duty status of at least a year."

I strongly suspect that there's a whole lot more to this story than we're being told.

35 posted on 06/03/2011 9:51:16 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: dead
WTF is wrong with the administration of West Point? They suspend this young man for getting beat up by two gangsta goons?!

Maybe they know more about the situation than we do.

36 posted on 06/03/2011 9:52:04 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Constitutions Grandchild

LaBelle???????? That flat nosed Skank Hag!!!!


37 posted on 06/03/2011 9:56:12 AM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: John S Mosby

“But I agree we could all use some Grav training and unarmed combat exercise.”

Brazilian ju-jitsu is excellent training since most fights end up on the deck.


38 posted on 06/03/2011 9:56:46 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: r9etb
Maybe they know more about the situation than we do.

Or maybe they're infected with the same zero-tolerance stupidity as the rest of the state-run educational monolith.

39 posted on 06/03/2011 10:00:59 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (I'm sick of damn idiots)
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To: r9etb
Maybe they know more about the situation than we do.

Of course that's possible, but how? Another video tape? There were no police there during the attack. If they got anybody's side of the story, I would guess it was the cadet's and his story is that he did nothing.

I suspect it was a "zero tolerance" thing. Like zero tolerance for getting your ass kicked in an airport or something.

He's 23 years old and doesn't appear to be drunk, but I guess a couple drinks on the plane might be part of it.

40 posted on 06/03/2011 10:00:59 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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