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A video showing a 5-year-old as he tries to escape an upcoming paddling from officials at Jasper County Primary School in Georgia, has caused outrage after being shared on social media this week. The boys mother, Shana Perez said he was being punished for misbehaving and that she only consented to the paddling because she felt pressured as she had previously been arrested for truancy after Thomas had missed school for 18 days She said that as punishment for this offense, the principal gave her two options: Either have Thomas suspended or have him paddled.

Rapper and filmmaker Ice Cube has accused Hillary Clinton and her supporters of waging a war against black people, saying that her comments in 1996 helped to encourage police brutality against black people which then gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.  In an interview with Bloomberg, Ice Cube said, “To call your own citizens ‘superpredators’ is pretty harsh and a pretty big indictment. It’s really not solving the problem, it’s just making it worse.

Google has blocked dozens of search links that contain references to the celebrity threesome scandal following legal demands from lawyers representing Elton John and husband David Furnish.  The internet giant have removed links to articles about Elton John and David Furnish who are currently at the centre of a super injunction barring the press in England and Wales from naming them, on the grounds of privacy. It is understood that Google received demands from an online privacy company to remove around 150 links from its British website.

In a somewhat stunning decision, SkyNews reports that a US judge has ruled that the families of victims in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School can sue the maker of the weapon used in the attack, arguing the Bushmaster rifle is a military weapon that should not have been sold to civilians.

As SkyNews reports,

Gun companies had sought to reject the negligence and wrongful death lawsuit filed two years after the attack by nine victims' relatives and a survivor.

 

A 63-year-old high school math teacher from east Texas was arrested for assault after a video showed her repeatedly slapping a student around the head in class. KGW reports: The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Mary Hastings, a teacher at Ozen High School near Beaumont, was arrested Friday on an assault charge. @pside_prince this.