Washington Post | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com ...conecting the community Sun, 18 Aug 2019 19:30:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 http://www.insideojodu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.ico Washington Post | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com 32 32 White woman arrested after holding 4 black teens fundraising https://www.insideojodu.com/white-woman-arrested-after-holding-4-black-teens-fundraising/ https://www.insideojodu.com/white-woman-arrested-after-holding-4-black-teens-fundraising/#respond Sun, 18 Aug 2019 19:30:48 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=6793 Four black student athletes who were going from door to door in their Arkansas community…

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Four black student athletes who were going from door to door in their Arkansas community to fundraise were held at gunpoint and forced to the ground by a white woman until police arrived at the scene, officials said.

The teenagers were walking through Wynne, a city roughly 100 miles northeast of Little Rock, around 10 a.m. on Aug. 7 to raise money for their high school football team when Jerri Kelly, 46, stopped them.

Investigators have responded to a “suspicious persons” report to find the boys — two of whom had football jerseys on, according to school officials — on the ground with a woman standing by with a gun, police said. An officer asked the teens to stand up, and they explained they were selling discount cards for their school sports program.

“We was scared,” one of the teens told police, The Washington Post reported. “I thought she was going to shoot me in the head, how she was acting.”

The boys told authorities Kelly shouted at them, told them to get down and spread their legs and place their arms behind their backs, and called them liars when they said they were fundraising for school. When one of the boys reportedly tried swatting at a mosquito, Kelly allegedly told him she’d shoot if he didn’t stop moving.

A responding officer recognized one of the boys and told them they could get up and walk over to his patrol vehicle, the Post reported, citing a police report. At that point, Kelly allegedly called them back and began to lecture them about how her actions were not racially motivated.

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Kim Jong Un’s former chef detained for making sushi https://www.insideojodu.com/kim-jong-uns-former-chef-detained-for-making-sushi/ https://www.insideojodu.com/kim-jong-uns-former-chef-detained-for-making-sushi/#respond Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:51:24 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=6122 The surprising rumors that the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s ex sushi chef…

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The surprising rumors that the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s ex sushi chef was apprehended were cleared up on Tuesday after the British ambassador to the country shared a photograph with him.

Kenji Fujimoto, a Japanese national, has served as personal chef to the Kim family for more than a decade, even when the current leader was still a child. He came back into the repressive country in 2017 and reportedly opened a sushi restaurant called Takahashi.

But media reports last month speculated that Fujimoto may have been arrested by North Korean authorities, with Japan’s Daily Shincho magazine reporting that the chef had been detained over a “past betrayal,” the Telegraph reported.

Following the news, Japan’s foreign ministry failed to confirm the chef’s location. But on Tuesday, Colin Crooks, the British ambassador to North Korea, put the mystery to rest after tweeting pictures of Fujimoto working at his sushi restaurant in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.

“Lunch today prepared by Master Chef #KenjiFujimoto at his #Pyongyang Japanese restaurant. Sashimi set was excellent,” Crooks said in a tweet.

Fujimoto revealed his knowledge of the inner workings of the ruling family previously, not excluding some very intimate details and their lavish lifestyle.

He also feared that his outspokenness after he left the hermit kingdom in 2001 could cause him trouble and accusations of “disloyalty,” though he later met Kim in 2013 and was reassured of his safety, the newspaper reported.

Fujimoto was interviewed by the Washington Post’s Anna Fifield for the book on the North Korean leader, claiming that Kim once was rude to him, refused to shake his hand, and “glared at him with ‘sharp eyes’ that seemed to say, ‘You abhorrent Japanese.’”

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