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Tyler Perry Offers $100,000 Reward For Information On Killing Of Gay Man
Josiah βJontyβ Robinson, a singer in Grenada, was found dead on a beach last month, with an autopsy reportedly concluding that he’d been strangled.
Jul 27, 2023, 01:43 PM EDT
Actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry is hoping to find answers in the killing of Josiah βJontyβ Robinson, offering $100,000 to anyone with information that leads to a conviction.
Perry announced the reward Wednesday on Instagram after 24-year-old Robinson, an openly gay singer in Grenada, was found dead on a local beach last month. Perry, a writer, director and producer known for wholesome comedies featuring mostly Black casts, said his friend Yvette Noel-Schure was in tears when she told him about the killing.
βMy soul ached as she shared that he was a young, gifted singer who was murdered because he was gay,β he wrote. βYvette and I are offering a $100,000 dollar reward to anyone who brings forth information that leads to the conviction of the murderer.β
Robinsonβs body was reportedly discovered in the same area of Grenadian town Morne Rouge where he had performed songs the day prior.
Speaking to The New Today, a source close to the Royal Grenada Police Force said an autopsy concluded that Robinson was strangled and thrown into the ocean. The local outlet later reported that police had questioned several people without making a breakthrough in the case.
Elsewhere in his Instagram post, Perry reflected on how Robinsonβs death echoed similar tragedies from recent years.
βMy mind immediately went to … [Matthew] Shepard, and all the other victims of racist, homophobic, antisemitic, xenophobic, senseless violence,β he said, referring to a gay student at the University of Wyoming whose 1998 killing sparked calls for stronger protections against hate crimes.
In a Wednesday essay for British Vogue, friend Tenille Clarke said that Robinson, who described himself on social media as a βYouth Ambassador,β lived as βan outspoken, openly gay manβ in an environment that was hostile at times.
βWhile Pride month is celebrated annually in metropolises such as New York β¦ his approach to activism in the Caribbean as a member of the LBGTQ community β his voracious desire to live in his simple, beautiful truth β often became a cyclic matter of life or death,β she wrote.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Royal Grenada Criminal Investigation Division at +1 (473) 440-3921.
The murders keep happening just for being gay. Tears… Here is a photo of 24 yr old Josiah
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Let’s talk about why conservatives are mad at Fox….
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NYT: DeSantis Worsened Floridaβs COVID Death Toll
If you remember Der DeathSantis attacked hard anyone who disagreed with his covid denial.Β Β When the vaccines were first made available the governor made sure his wealthy friends got first chance to get them, making sure distribution sites were next to or in wealthy enclaves.Β Then he held a sort of lottery where the pharmacy / company that gave him the largest donation would have exclusive rights to give out the vaccine.Β Β That was the Publix chain of grocery stores, which are found by and run on “Christian” principles.Β When state officials challenged his views of forcing companies to violate federal guidelines, he fired them and used the state legal authorities to attack and harm the whistleblowers.Β When the state medical community would go along with him he fired them, and hired one of the Frontline doctors that were scamming the maga by charging $90 or more for a short video medical consultation and then charged them for an Ivermectin prescription.Β Β This was led by the “semen doctor” who claimed demons were having sex with people leaving demon semen seed in them causing all sorts of illnesses.Β Β His new quack head of the Florida health department is a complete anti-vaccine covid denying fraud who is now raking in almost $600,000 when he first took the position because Der DeathSantis forced a state university to make him their president.Β Not a bad gig, going from scamming random maga people to making over half a million a year just to parrot and provide pseudo-science reasons for what ever the governor proclaims.Β Hugs
TheΒ New York TimesΒ reports:
In Florida, unlike the nation as a whole β and states like New York and California that Mr. DeSantis likes to single out β most people who died from Covid died after vaccines became available to all adults, not before. As the governorβs political positions began to shift, so did his stateβs death rate, for the worse.
Mr. DeSantis and his aides have said that his opposition was to mandates, not to the vaccinations themselves. They say the governor only questioned the efficacy of the shots once it became evident that they did not necessarily prevent infection β which prompted him to criticize experts and the federal government.
Tapping into the Republican revolt against scientific authority made him a political star. But that revolt came with costs. βThese were preventable deaths,β Dr. Rivkees, who resigned as Floridaβs surgeon general in September 2021, said in a recent interview.
Read theΒ full article. Itβs quite the deep dive.Β Gift link.
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Bad Faith Justifications For Trans Political Persecution MUST Be Met With Militant Advocacy
Virginia Removes LGBTQ Youth Suicide Prevention Resources After Complaints By Ben Shapiroβs Daily Wire
Because the death of LGBTQ+ kids is better than them living openly as themselves in an accepting society according to the right wing mind set.Β Β Hugs
TheΒ Washington PostΒ reports:
The administration of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) quietly took down LGBTQ+ youth resources from a state website after a conservative media outlet questioned the links, records show, building on a pattern of removals derided by public health employees who say their work is being politicized.
Within hours of an inquiry from the Daily Wire, a dozen resources, including a live-chat online support group for teens, were removed from the state health department website at the direction of a Cabinet-level agency, according to emails obtained under the stateβs open records law.
The presence of the materials β and their subsequent disappearance on May 31 β generated two headlines and a flurry of online reaction from conservative readers of the outlet, co-founded by right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro.
Read theΒ full article.
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Folks, I hope as an ally I’m not overstepping my bounds to post this classic.
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They’re pro life for only fetuses. After that, good luck.
“Preborn you’re fine, preschool you’re fucked.” – George Carlin
They WANT dead kids. From mass shootings to removing suicide prevention to allowing pedophile clergy to outlawing loving same-sex family adoption. How much more obvious can it be????
This is what fascists mean when they way they want to “protect children”. They want to protect their fantasies in which more kids are dead.
Consider how fucked up you have to be to whine and complain that the government is promoting suicide prevention resources for a vulnerable minority.
At this point, I don’t care whether Ben Shapiro’s directly pushing for this. He consistently employs people who want us dead.
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Toddler fatally shoots mom on Zoom call after finding gun; father charged with negligent manslaughter
Well the gun manufactures do make guns for kids now including pink guns for girls, and all the maga republicans take pictures for Christmas of their families where even the youngest children are holding guns.Β Β In Florida, you don’t need any kind of training or permit to buy and carry a gun, even to do concealed carry.Β Β This is the Clint Eastwood pretend wild west that never existed but in the mind of the hard core republicans.Β Β In the true history of the west, cities and towns had strict gun laws.Β Β Even the 1950’s TV shows had gun control in Dodge City.Β Again the right has rewritten history to please themselves and to create a white person fantasy.Β Β Hugs
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Β Police in central Florida have arrested the father of a toddler who found a loaded handgun in his “Paw Patrol” backpack and fatally shot his mother while she was on a Zoom call for work.
Veondre Avery, 22, was arrested Tuesday and charged with negligent manslaughter and unsafe storage of a firearm, Altamonte Springs police said.Β
Investigators said the 2-year-old found the gunΒ in the backpack on Aug. 11 and fired a single shot that hit his mother, Shamaya Lynn, in the head.Β
A woman who also was on the Zoom call dialed 911, reporting that she heard a noise and saw Lynn fall. The co-worker didn’t know how old Lynn was or where she lived, but meanwhile Avery also called 911, begging responders to hurry as he tried to help Lynn.
Accidental shooting:A toddler found a handgun and fatally shot himself. His case is one of at least 73 accidental child deaths involving a gun in 2018
“I literally just got home and I come in the room… (and) my girlfriend who was working on the computer, she’s just laid back and there’s blood everywhere,” Avery said on the 911 call.
He told the dispatcher that Lynn wasn’t breathing, and he could not feel her heartbeat. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities said another child also was in the home during the shooting.
The Seminole County State Attorney’s Office said Avery is being held without bond. Records did not list an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Knowles: βBan Evil Pride Flags From All Public Spacesβ
So this morons only shtick is to push hate and fear.Β Β Yes that is the standard operating mode of the right now.Β But this guy is riding high with his almost non-stop attacks on the LGBTQ+.Β Just like Matt Walsh it is all he has to have someone notice him.Β Β It is always the other that is the fault or reason things are bad with these people.Β Β But the guy is a flat out liar but it won’t matter as all his followers want to hear is the hate.Β Β He claims that it is illegal to fly Nazi flags, “We ban all sorts of flags from public spaces β Nazi flags … “ Β Hugs
SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad2 days ago edited
We ban all sorts of flags from public spaces β Nazi flags, hammer and sickle flags.
You might want to let Florida know.
moisturize me SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad2 days ago
Chris Baker SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad2 days ago
Yes, I donβt know where any flags are banned in public spaces. He must be living in an alternate reality,
Also, Christians have a flag. So if he is saying that no one is a real American unless they only fly the American flag, he forgets those people, and all the people who fly the βdonβt tread on meβ flag, university flags, etc
Houndentenor Chris Baker2 days ago
I drive by countless frontyard flag poles where they are flying a Trump flag instead of the American one. It’s their property and they can fly whatever they want, but it’s definitely not the American flag. Of course when Republicans do it it’s okay.
our planet is literally on fire in so many ways, and morons like this are worried about flags? air-quality high alert (dangerous levels) for us here today. visibility is wayyy down….looks like a ground fog. my nose has been dripping all morning, GAH! first time i have seen noaa use ‘smoke’ in our forecast. looks like afternoon garden projects are on hold. again.
“But is it more extreme than turning Christmas day into Christmas week into Christmas month into Christmas season into β left unchecked, I promise you β Christmas always.”
Only difference between my quote and his is that the ever-expanding Christmas season really seems to be a thing… yet folks like him always talk up a “War on Christmas” as if it’s the thing under assault and bringing death threats to employees and such.
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