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Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Yahoo
Tasers can't stop man after assaulting woman holding child, officers then use deadly force
An intense domestic situation with a man attacking a pregnant woman trying to shield her child led to officers using their Tasers several times and finally shooting and killing him, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Officers were called about 11:20 p.m. on July 15 to assist fire-rescue personnel in the 12500 block of Brahma Bull Circle near New Berlin Road. The family members who called 911 were already out of the house, but the officers could hear loud, frantic screaming from a man and woman inside. They kicked in a bedroom door and saw the room all disheveled and the man on top of the woman pulling her hair with the child in her arms, the Sheriff's Office said. He refused several commands to release her and back away, but continued to aggressively attack her, the Sheriff's Office said. "From behind the lady, he's holding her by the hair, just yelling and screaming ... not letting her go," Chief Alan Parker said. "She's holding onto a young child. We find out later that she is currently pregnant with that gentleman's baby it sounds like. Meanwhile, they're trying to separate them, so they end up tasing him. They're able to get her separated at that point." The officers backed off and began communicating with the suspect for about 30 minutes to get him to come out and surrender. When he finally came out, he remained combative. The Sheriff's Office noted he was a large man and had to be tased several more times. He fought through the tasings and attacked the officers. "He knocks one over and into a table and drives the other one all the way into the kitchen," Parker said. Three officers then shoot him. He died and one of the officers was treated for minor injuries while another "was a little banged up." The Sheriff's Office didn't say whether the woman suffered any injuries. The suspect has been identified as 26-year-old Amir Bradsher. He has no local criminal history, according to Duval County court records, and appears to be from North Carolina. "Throughout this whole thing ... whatever he was saying they couldn't really make sense of, he's continuing to eat this lady's hair that he had ripped out during the fight inside the room. So there's this whole interaction and he's chewing on her hair and everything, so we don't know what he was going through." Sheriff T.K. Waters said it's a difficult situation. "You're there, you're trying to bring the situation to a close safely," Waters said. "But you walk in, you see a lady on the ground, he's literally pulling her hair and not letting her go." The Sheriff's Office identified the officers involved as Lucas Robinson, Kamau Richardson and Harold Taylor Jr. For Officers Robinson and Richardson, it was the first police shooting in two and five yeas with the force, respectively. For Sgt. Taylor a 16-year-veteran, it was his second. This marks the 11th police shooting this year in Jacksonville and seventh fatal. For all of last year there were eight with three fatal, according to Times-Union records. (This story has been updated with the officers' full names.) This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Police shoot, kill man chewing woman's hair during domestic assault
Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Yahoo
Jacksonville police shoot, kill man in Beach Blvd. incident
A routine Saturday evening Beach Boulevard traffic crash ended with two Jacksonville police officers shooting and killing a 69-year-old man. The bizarre incident began at about 6 p.m. when police responded to a traffic crash with injuries at the intersection of Beach Boulevard and I-295, JSO Chief Alan Parker said at a news briefing. Witnesses told police that a Toyota Camry turning from the eastbound lanes of Beach Boulevard onto the northbound I-295 entrance ramp was struck by a westbound SUV whose driver had run a run a red light. A woman driving the car told police that after the vehicles collided, she looked at the man in the SUV and saw him give her a 'thumbs up' before he exited the vehicle and began wandering around. She, along with her children ages 7 and 10, received minor injuries in the crash, police said, and were treated at the scene. But the man began making statements that he 'was going to shoot himself,' Parker said rescue crews and another witness told police. Officers verified the man had a gun and cleared the immediate area of the accident. After 20 minutes of negotiating with the man — who refused to give his name — police said a bicyclist rode through the scene, and when the man with the gun still in his hands turned towards the bicyclist, 'the officers had to engage him,' Parker said. The man, whose name was not released pending notification of next of kin, was taken to a local hospital, where he died. The two officers who fatally shot the man were identified as Greg Hernandez, a 6-year veteran of the force, and Z. Slatowski, a 4.5-year veteran, Alan said. It was the first officer-involved shooting for each. The shooting is the second this week and third this month that involved a police officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. On July 15, Jacksonville police shot and killed a man they said was attacking a pregnant woman who was trying to shield her child from the suspect in an incident in the 12500 block of Brahma Bull Circle near New Berlin Road. After using Tasers several times on the suspect, police fatally shot the man. On July 9, Officer Luis Mercado, a four-year veteran of JSO, was shot in the leg during a gunfight with a robbery suspect on Soutel Drive near Norfolk Boulevard. The suspect, 20, was critically wounded in the confrontation and died at a local hospital. How many police shootings in Jacksonville in 2025? It marks the Sheriff's Office's 12th police shooting this year. Six have been fatal. Last year had a total of eight, with three being fatal, according to Florida Times-Union records. This story has been updated to include new information. This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Jacksonville police shooting closes Beach Boulevard Solve the daily Crossword
The Guardian
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful review – solid pop that's about as ‘psychedelic' as a baked potato
Miley Cyrus has made some very grand claims for her ninth album. Something Beautiful is not merely a concept album, but one the 32-year-old pop star has described as 'an attempt to medicate somewhat of a sick culture through music'. One filled with 'healing sound properties' designed to 'impact frequencies in your body that make you vibrate at a different level'. And it's not just all of that, but an accompanying film as well: a 'one-of-a-kind pop opera' apparently inspired by Alan Parker's 1982 film adaptation of Pink Floyd's The Wall 'but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous'. For all that the executives at Cyrus's label are unlikely to say no to a huge star whose last album featured the world's biggest-selling single of 2023 – Flowers, 2.7bn streams – you can still imagine them swallowing very hard when presented with all this. After all, Cyrus has form when it comes to going wildly off-piste: Bangerz, her biggest-selling album, was followed with Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, a sprawling collection of stoned jokes, musical non-sequiturs and psychedelic collaborations with the Flaming Lips. Furthermore, when her record label suggested that an hour and a half of this might try her fans' patience, Cyrus's response was to make Petz even longer, by including a recording of her playing Tibetan singing bowls. Cyrus also has form for announcing releases that don't quite fit their initial billing: 2017's not-actually-very 'country' album Younger Now; 2020's Plastic Hearts, which presented itself as new-wave rock, with guest appearances from Joan Jett and Billy Idol and its logo borrowed from shock-rockers the Plasmatics, but turned out to be all over the shop stylistically. So it proves here. The film has no more in common with Parker's adaptation of The Wall than it does Mrs Brown's Boys: D'Movie. It has absolutely no plot, not because it's a wilfully confusing exercise in non-linear arthouse cinema, but because it's just a load of pop videos, albeit divided into three 'acts' and interspersed with spoken-word interludes. A lot of them are straightforward in-studio performances; the rest look like extended perfume commercials: Miley Cyrus walking through a film studio's backlot in a pair of fluorescent blue furry chaps, or down Hollywood Boulevard at night in order to do a spot of writhing around on Arnold Schwarzenegger's Walk of Fame star. Miley Cyrus pretending to ride a motorbike and palling around with Naomi Campbell in matching bustiers and heels. It's perhaps for the best that it isn't a contemporary remake of The Wall, an album and film that's essentially about a multimillionaire's peevish solipsism and bitter score-settling – there's already quite enough of that in 2025, thank you. Nevertheless, you do wonder if premiering it at the Tribeca film festival doesn't amount to gilding the lily a little. A similar sense of 'huh?' attends the album itself, given the talk of healing sound properties and indeed of Cyrus wishing to be 'a human psychedelic'. It certainly gets off to a relatively left-field start. The title track opens like an old-fashioned soul ballad, complete with tasteful horns, then erupts into a chorus thick with distorted vocals and crashing, discordant rock guitar. But thereafter it turns much more straightforward: sparkly 80s pop sprinkled with Dancing Queen-ish piano flourishes on End of the World; Easy Lover's lightly disco-laced soft rock; ballads that are, respectively, synthy (More to Lose) and primed to soundtrack the end credits of a movie rather more substantial than the one Cyrus has made (Give Me Love). Sign up to Sleeve Notes Get music news, bold reviews and unexpected extras. Every genre, every era, every week after newsletter promotion The album's second half focuses more on the dancefloor: pumping four-to-the-floor beats, a preponderance of Patrick Cowley and Bobby O synthesisers. The choruses melodically evoke a variety of music from continental Europe: French chanson on Reborn, Abba (again) on Every Girl You've Ever Loved, balls-out Eurovision finalist on Walk of Fame. What it really recalls is hi-NRG, the electronic soundtrack of choice in mid-80s gay clubs. Reanimating this sound isn't a bad idea – it's one of the few areas of 80s pop that the 21st century has yet to really scavenge from – and it's done really well here. The synths sound edgy, the choruses stick, there's a smattering of knowing period details (Syndrums, sampled orchestral stabs), and it's a delight to hear Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes repurposing her voice as a stentorian Grace Jones-y roar on Walk of Fame. If the rest of the album steadfastly fails to make the listener vibrate at a different level – it's all about as psychedelic as a baked potato – and you struggle to identify any kind of concept, it's still all very well written and well made, a varied succession of good vehicles for Cyrus's powerfully raspy voice. What it lacks is the kind of obvious smash-hit single by which her albums stand or fall commercially: the most obvious candidates, End of the World and Every Girl You've Ever Loved, are strong but not undeniable. Rather than the disparity betweenCyrus's intentions for Something Beautiful and the reality, it's that which might doom it to a muted reception. Saint Etienne – Glad A marvellous single heralds Saint Etienne's final album: a collaboration with Chemical Brother Tom Rowlands that puts a perfect pop spin on his psych-y breakbeat backing.
Bloomberg
16-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Family Offices Added US Stocks Ahead of Trump's ‘Liberation Day'
Investment firms for the world's wealthy increased their stock bets ahead of President Donald Trump imposing new tariffs that sent global markets into a tailspin before eventually clawing back losses. Family offices for a European dynasty, hedge fund billionaire Noam Gottesman and duty-free shopping tycoon Alan Parker all boosted US equity investments in the three months ended March 31, according to 13F regulatory filings, days before Trump's ' Liberation Day ' sparked market chaos.
Forbes
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Miley Cyrus Has ‘More To Lose' On New Song
Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus has been touting her forthcoming album Something Beautiful as her magnum opus, and the Grammy-winning crooner hasn't shied away from flexing her talents across a wide range of sounds in the lead-up to the album's release. After reveling in happiness on lead single 'End of the World' and rocking out in the album's title track, Cyrus is looking inward on 'More to Lose,' the latest preview of the new LP. On 'More to Lose,' Cyrus reflects on a past love and as she mourns what once was and hopes that she might get to experience it all again. 'I stay / When the ecstasy is far away / And I pray / That it's comin' 'round again / And you say it / But I wish it wasn't true / I knew someday that one would have to choose / I just thought we had more to lose,' she sings on the track. Cyrus has been known to bare her heart in her music over the years, and 'More to Lose' sees a fully realized artist and adult dealing with the remorse of post-breakup hindsight. Now, she's able to have fun with it, winking at the subject (or subjects) of the song at a private show last week. 'I have a lot of people that I've known and loved for a very long time in this room — even a couple of exes," she said, per Stereogum. The new album will arrive with a Something Beautiful film in Cyrus' nod to Pink Floyd's The Wall album. Honoring Alan Parker's iconic 1982 music film was a central part of the album and movie creation process. 'I have this heart-first attachment to it,' she told Harper's Bazaar of the Pink Floyd – The Wall film. 'My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture.' Something Beautiful is out May 30.
