NOTN- With food insecurity surging and federal food assistance programs in limbo after November, Resurrection Lutheran Church is hosting the first-ever Juneau Hunger Jam today to raise funds and awareness for the Southeast Alaska Food Bank, along with their own meal programs.
The event will be a live-streamed telethon on the church’s YouTube channel and will feature performances from more than a dozen local musicians, including community choirs and High Cost of Living. Organizers say all proceeds will go directly to support the food bank, which supplies groceries to pantries and meal programs across Southeast Alaska.
“The food banks have been hit hard. They lost federal programs that were benefiting them and us, that got them food. As an example. We’re being hit really hard right now.” said Bradley Perkins, event organizer and church representative. “Our food pantries open on Tuesdays from noon to 4:30 and we are pretty much, running out of food by 2:30 or 3:00, and we have huge numbers of people coming in, not just those who we normally see that experience food scarcity, we’re seeing federal workers, we’re seeing teachers, and we’re seeing just all kinds of people, and our meal service program is also just gone off the charts.”
The food bank’s supplies have been strained since the recent federal freeze on SNAP benefits and other food distribution programs.
“When things happen like the cutting off of SNAP and federal workers being furloughed, we wanted to raise some money for them so that they can have a buffer to handle these blips that hit in the system.”Said Karen Lawfer, “We want to make sure that they have food security to handle all of these ups and downs. So how else to do that, but by having a lot of fun and raising money? So that’s when we came up with the Juneau Hunger Jam.”
The telethon will take place from 6 to 10 p.m. at Resurrection Lutheran Church. The event will include live performances, a silent auction, and an in-person studio audience. Food donations, particularly shelf-stable items will also be accepted at the church during the event.
Photo of burglary suspects from JPD’s Facebook page
NOTN- Juneau police are asking for the public’s help identifying three suspects accused of burglarizing a local church early November 1.
First reported by the Juneau Independent, the Juneau Police Department said officers began investigating the incident after receiving a report of a burglary at the Juneau Church of Christ, located on Trinity Drive. Surveillance video showed three individuals breaking into the church between 2 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. police said.
Approximately $4,000 worth of electronics and other items were reported stolen, including an Apple MacBook Air, Panasonic HD camcorder, GoPro Hero 3, Sennheiser wireless microphone system, and various audio-visual equipment. Police said the thieves also took plastic decorative flowers and laundry detergent.
Investigators released surveillance footage in hopes of identifying the suspects, available on JPD’s Facebook page.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Sergeant Lee Phelps at the Juneau Police Department at (907) 586-0600. Anonymous tips can be submitted through JuneauCrimeLine.com.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota speaks at an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oct. 7, 2025. AP Photo/Allison Robbert
Routine congressional oversight hearings usually don’t make headlines. Historically, these often low-key events have been the sorts of things you catch only on C-SPAN – procedural, polite and largely ignored outside the Beltway.
But their tone has shifted dramatically during the second Trump administration.
When Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oct. 7, 2025, what took place was a contentious, highly partisan, made-for-TV-and-social-media confrontation.
The hearing occurred on the heels of the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, which many legal experts view as an example of a president targeting his political enemies. Bondi came ready to fight. She refused to answer many questions from Democrats, instead launching personal attacks against these members of the U.S. Senate.
From our perspective as political scientists who study the U.S. Congress, congressional oversight has played an important role in American democracy. Here’s a brief history.
Congressional oversight hearings help keep executive branch agencies accountable to the public.
Inquisitory powers
In simple terms, oversight is the ability of Congress to ensure that the laws it passes are faithfully executed. This generally means asking questions, demanding information, convening hearings and holding the executive branch accountable for its actions.
Oversight isn’t specifically mentioned in the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, which lists the powers of Congress, includes the power “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper,” without identifying an oversight role. Once laws are enacted, Article 2, Section 3, states that the president “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”
However, the framers viewed congressional oversight as a key component of legislative authority. They wanted presidents to take Congress seriously and structured the Constitution to ensure that the executive would be accountable to the legislature. As James Madison urged in Federalist 51, the separate branches of government should have the power to keep each other from becoming too powerful. “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” Madison wrote.
At the Federal Convention in 1787 that produced the Constitution, Delegate George Mason noted that members of Congress possessed “inquisitory powers” and “must meet frequently to inspect the Conduct of public officials.” Even though this idea was never written down, it was a habit of self-government that early Congresses put into practice.
Sen. Sam Ervin, chair of the Senate Watergate Committee, announces on July 23,1973, that the committee has decided to subpoena White House tapes and documents related to the Watergate burglary and cover-up. AP Photo
Early oversight hearings
Congressional oversight began almost as soon as the first Congress met. In 1790, Robert Morris, the superintendent of finances during the Continental Congress and a financier of the American Revolution, asked Congress to investigate his handling of the country’s finances and was exonerated of any wrongdoing.
During this period, congressional investigations were often referred to select committees – bodies created to perform special functions. These panels had the power to issue subpoenas and hold individuals in contempt. Since there was no official record of debates and proceedings, the public relied on newspaper accounts to learn about what had happened.
In March 1792, congressional oversight exposed businessman William Duer, who signed contracts with the War Department but failed to furnish the needed military supplies. This shortfall contributed to a stunning U.S. military defeat against a confederation of Native American tribes in the Northwest Territory.
Congress eventually removed the quartermaster general from his role for mismanaging the contracts. Duer was simultaneously involved in perhaps the first American economic bubble, which burst at the same time as Congress’ hearings. He ended up in a debtor’s prison, where he died in 1799.
Throughout the 19th century, Congress continued to quietly exercise this power. The work was often invisible to the public, but the issues were important. Hearings from December 1861 to May 1865 on the conduct of the U.S. Civil War produced a detailed record of the war, exposed military wrongdoing and condemned slavery. In 1871, the Senate created a select committee to investigate Ku Klux Klan violence during Reconstruction.
Investigating corruption and criminal acts
Congress started to use its oversight power more aggressively in the 1920s with the Senate Committee on Public Land and Surveys’ high-profile investigations into the Teapot Dome scandal.
Hearings revealed that Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall had secretly leased federal oil reserves in Wyoming to two private corporations and had received personal loans and gifts from the companies in return.
The investigation found clear evidence of corruption. Fall was indicted and became the first U.S. Cabinet member to be convicted of a felony.
The U.S. Supreme Court helped to shape the legal foundation of congressional oversight. In McGrain v. Daugherty, decided in 1927, the court held that congressional committees could issue subpoenas, force witnesses to testify and hold them in contempt if they fail to appear. Two years later, in Sinclair v. United States, the court ruled that witnesses who lied to Congress could be charged with perjury.
These cases granted the judicial branch’s sanction to what had long been an implied legislative power, cementing the constitutionality of congressional oversight.
Oversight highs and lows
The modern era of congressional oversight has produced some very important reforms – and some truly regrettable spectacles.
The most important example of bipartisan congressional oversight came in response to reporting by The Washington Post’s Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The two journalists wrote about the 1972 burgling of Democratic National Committee offices in Washington, D.C.’s Watergate Hotel and subsequent cover-up efforts by the Nixon administration.
On Feb. 7, 1973, the U.S. Senate voted 77-0 to establish a Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, which brought together Democrats and Republicans to investigate what came to be known as the “Watergate scandal.” The committee’s work spurred action in Congress to impeach President Richard Nixon, leading to Nixon’s resignation in 1974 and to the enactment of legal reforms to provide an institutional check on presidential power.
Another high point for congressional oversight came after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. Seeking to learn how the deadliest terrorist strike on American soil had occurred, Democratic Sen. Bob Graham and Republican Rep. Porter Goss, who chaired the Senate and House Intelligence committees, formed a joint committee to investigate intelligence failures before and after the attacks.
This inquiry produced several important recommendations that were ultimately adopted, including the creation of a director of national intelligence and a Department of Homeland Security, as well as better information sharing among law enforcement agencies.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, shown here, and targets in Washington, D.C., a congressional committee investigated intelligence failures that had impeded detection of the terrorist plot. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images
Congress’ oversight can extend beyond the executive branch when the actions of private actors raise questions about existing laws or spur the need for new ones. As examples, investigations into medical device safety and Enron’s 2001 collapse examined malfeasance in the private sphere that existing regulations failed to prevent.
However, the power to expose corruption can also be used as a tool to score partisan points and generate outrage, rather than holding the executive branch accountable for actual malfeasance. Notably, in the 1950s, Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy turned oversight into inquisition and used the power of media to amplify his accusations of communist influence within the federal government.
Democracy needs oversight
Congressional oversight has strengthened the democratic system at many points. But hearings like Bondi’s recent session before the Senate Judiciary Committee aren’t the first, and likely won’t be the last, to substitute sound bites for substance.
As we see it, the problem with allowing oversight to become political theater is that it distracts Congress from quieter and more meaningful oversight work. Slow, procedural work isn’t likely to go viral, but it helps keep government accountable. The task of a deliberate legislative body is to reconcile those very different impulses.
The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Trump’s demands that Obama release his birth certificate had, in part, made Trump a front-runner among Republican hopefuls for their party’s nomination in the following year’s presidential election.
Obama referred to Trump’s presidential ambitions by joking that, if elected, Trump would bring some changes to the White House.
Obama then called attention to a satirical photo the guests could see of a remodeled White House with the words “Trump” and “The White House” in large purple letters followed by the words “hotel,” “casino” and “golf course.”
Obama’s ridicule of Trump that evening has been credited with inspiring Trump to run for president in 2016.
My book, “The Art of the Political Putdown,” includes Obama’s chiding of Trump at the correspondents’ dinner to demonstrate how politicians use humor to establish superiority over a rival.
Obama’s ridicule humiliated Trump, who temporarily dropped the birther conspiracy before reviving it. But Trump may have gotten the last laugh by using the humiliation of that night, as some think, as motivation in his run for the president in 2016.
There is a further twist to Obama joking about Trump’s renovations to the White House if Trump became president. Trump has fulfilled Obama’s prediction, kind of.
The Trump administration has razed the East Wing, which sits adjacent to the White House, and will replace it with a 90,000-square-foot, gold-encrusted ballroom that appears to reflect the ostentatious tastes of the president.
It’s expected to be big enough to accommodate nearly a thousand people. Design renderings suggest that the ballroom will resemble the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
“I don’t have any plan to call it after myself,” Trump said recently. “That was fake news. Probably going to call it the presidential ballroom or something like that. We haven’t really thought about a name yet.”
But senior administration officials told ABC News that they were already referring to the structure as “The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom.”
The renovation will have neither a hotel, casino nor golf course, as Obama mentioned in his light-hearted speech at the 2011 correspondents’ dinner.
A video is shown as President Barack Obama speaks about Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington on April 30, 2011. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
Obama pokes fun at Trump
In the months before the 2011 correspondents’ dinner, Trump had repeatedly claimed that Obama had not been born in Hawaii but had instead been born outside the United States, perhaps in his father’s home country of Kenya.
The baseless conspiracy theory became such a distraction that Obama released his long-form birth certificate in April 2011.
Three days later, Obama delivered his speech at the correspondents’ dinner with Trump in the audience, where he said that Trump, having put the birther conspiracy behind him, could move to other conspiracy theories like claims the moon landing was staged, aliens landed in Roswell, New Mexico, or the unsolved murders of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur.
Obama then poked fun at Trump’s reality show, “The Apprentice,” and referred to how Trump, who owned hotels, casinos and golf courses, might renovate the White House.
When Obama was finished, Seth Meyers, the host of the dinner, made additional jokes at Trump’s expense.
“Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican – which is surprising, since I just assumed that he was running as a joke,” Meyers said.
Trump gets the last laugh
The New Yorker magazine writer Adam Gopnik remembered watching Trump as the jokes kept coming at his expense.
“Trump’s humiliation was as absolute, and as visible, as any I have ever seen: his head set in place, like a man on a pillory, he barely moved or altered his expression as wave after wave of laughter struck him,” Gopnik wrote. “There was not a trace of feigning good humor about him.”
Donald Trump and Melania Trump arrive for the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington on April 30, 2011. AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File
Roger Stone, one of Trump’s top advisers, said Trump decided to run for president after he felt he had been publicly humiliated.
“I think that is the night he resolves to run for president,” Stone said in an interview with the PBS program “Frontline.” “I think that he is kind of motivated by it. ‘Maybe I’ll just run. Maybe I’ll show them all.‘”
Trump, if Stone and other political observers are correct, sought the presidency to avenge that humiliation.
“I thought, ‘Oh, Barack Obama is starting something that I don’t know if he’ll be able to finish,’” said Omarosa Manigault, a former “Apprentice” contestant who became Trump’s director of African American outreach during his first term.
“Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump,” she said. “It is everyone who’s ever doubted Donald, whoever disagreed, whoever challenged him – it is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.”
The notoriously thin-skinned Trump did not attend the White House correspondents’ dinner during his first presidency. He also did not attend the dinner during the first year of his second presidency.
Although Trump has never publicly acknowledged the importance of that event in 2011, a number of people have noted how pivotal it was, demonstrating how the putdown can be a powerful weapon in politics – even, perhaps, extending to tearing down the White House’s East Wing.
Chris Lamb does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
The former child actress has previously shared her plans to use the semaglutide medication for weight loss.
She also revealed her heartbreaking reason for wanting to change her figure.
Now, she’s updating fans on how much she’s lost in just a few months — and how much more she intends to lose.
In a Story update that circulated across social media, Amanda Bynes shared her weight loss story and her new goal. (Image Credit: YouTube)
In June of this year, Amanda Bynes announced to her fans and followers that she was starting Ozempic.
Though the semaglutide injections are a diabetes medication, in recent years, there has been a trendy new use: luxury weight loss.
This has caused both controversy and documented shortages of the medication for those who need it.
Amanda explained her decision at the time. Over the years (and perhaps due to medications), she has struggled with unwanted weight gain.
She heartbreakingly summarized her goal to “look better in paparazzi pictures.”
“I’m so excited,” Amanda gushed back in June.
“I’m 173 now,” she revealed.
The former actress is believed to be around 5-foot-8.
But the ranges for a “healthy” weight are so broad for different builds and bodies and activity levels that it is impossible to speculate what a desirable goal should be.
“So I hope to get down to 130,” she revealed, “which would be awesome.”
Former child actress Amanda Bynes made a rare public appearance at an art gallery. (Image Credit: YouTube)
These days, Amanda Bynes lives a relatively private life.
Though paparazzi do snap shots of her out and about in Los Angeles, she mostly manages to avoid them — in part by just living her life like a normal person.
On Wednesday, November 5, Amanda took to her Instagram Story to update fans and followers on her Ozempic journey.
“I’ve lost 20 pounds so far,” she revealed. “I’m so excited about that to be honest.”
Presumably, that puts her about halfway towards reaching her goal. However, it’s sounding like she’s moved the goalpost a bit further.
Amanda Bynes is feeling herself after shedding 20 pounds with Ozempic — and she’s not done yet! Link below for more details about her weight-loss journey! (📸: INSTAGRAM)https://t.co/9KYiXZt8Qkpic.twitter.com/icJpE2Ef7q
“I want to lose about 50 more pounds,” Amanda announced.
Wait, is she looking to weigh only 100 pounds? That would make her extremely small and frail, to say nothing of the toll that extreme weight loss takes on the body and of course known Ozempic side effects.
“I’m 163 now,” she revealed, making it sound as if she’s lost less weight than it had seemed.
“I actually shot up on the Ozempic pill to 180 from 173,” Amanda explained. “So I was able to lose 20 pounds from 180.”
She continued: “And now, I’m down to 163 on the Ozempic injection.”
Child actress Amanda Bynes sometimes surprises people by not looking the same as she did in 2000. But a quarter of a century has passed. (Photo Credit: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
Just to be clear, Ozempic is an injectable. Semaglutide does exist in a pill form, but that is under the name Rybelsus.
“So I’m really glad that I’m on the injection,” Amanda Bynes expressed to the camera.
“It’s really working for me,” she shared.
“And,” Amanda added, “I’m trying to lose more weight just to feel skinny and cute.”
One day, the world will have to reckon with what it has done to so many people, especially women, for them to put themselves through this. Clearly, that long night of the soul is a long way off.
The Cowboys confirmed the tragic news on Thursday morning, but the initial statement from the team did not include any information about the cause of death.
Now, multiple outlets are reporting that Kneeland died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Marshawn Kneeland #DL41 of the Western Michigan Broncos speaks to the media during the 2024 NFL Draft Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium on February 28, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
Police responded to a welfare concern at Marshawn Kneeland’s residence on Wednesday night but were unable to contact anyone inside the home.
According to 911 audio obtained by TMZ, Kneeland’s girlfriend told police that “he is armed and has a history of mental illness” and that she was worried he would “end it all.”
At one point in the call, a 911 operator says that members of Kneeland’s family received “a group text saying goodbye”
She added that Kneeland’s loved ones were “concerned about his welfare.”
Elijah Higgins #84 of the Arizona Cardinals rushes ahead of Marshawn Kneeland #94 of the Dallas Cowboys during the second quarter in the game at AT&T Stadium on November 03, 2025 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
Police in Frisco, Texas say that Kneeland was involved in a pursuit around 10:39 PM on Wednesday night.
He evaded troopers after an attempt to pull him over for a traffic violation and proceeded to crash his car and flee on foot.
Kneeland’s body was reportedly found inside a portable toilet at around 1:30 am.
The list of NFL players who have committed suicide is a tragically long one, and numerous medical experts have expressed concern for the ways in which the brutality of the game might be impacting these players’ mental health.
Marshawn Kneeland #DL41 of the Western Michigan Broncos speaks to the media during the 2024 NFL Draft Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium on February 28, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has been found in the brains of hundreds of retired players, and it’s widely believed to be the primary cause of suicidal ideation and other destructive behaviors in former NFL stars.
We do not know if CTE was a factor in Kneeland’s death, but it’s certainly a matter that his loved ones and the league will likely wish to explore.
Kneeland was drafted by the Cowboys in the second round of the 2024 NFL Draft. In Monday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals, he scored his first touchdown by recovering a blocked punt in the end zone.
“It is with extreme sadness that the Dallas Cowboys share that Marshawn Kneeland tragically passed away this morning,” reads today’s statement from the team.
“Marshawn was a beloved teammate and member of our organization. Our thoughts and prayers regarding Marshawn are with his girlfriend Catalina and his family,” the statement continued.
We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
Keeping with the trend of weird ways to discuss the end of your marriage, Noah offered a “separation update” video this week.
Posting to Facebook (which might sound like an odd choice in 2025, but the bulk of Alaskan Bush People’s viewing demographic are likely still active on the platform), he explained his relative silence in recent months.
Simply put, Noah said that he had been quiet about the separation for “a while, ’cause of reasons.”
He declared that “it’s time for a separation update and this one is that my ex-wife … already has a boyfriend.”
This is when he revealed that he has met the new man. That can be important, especially since he and Rhain share children Eli and Adam.
During his time on ‘Alaskan Bush People,’ Noah Brown gave off a different vibe than many of his siblings. (Image Credit: Discovery)
Rhain’s new man is the one who served him with the papers
“Two days later,” Noah shared during the lengthy video, “he actually served me with divorce papers.”
He announced: “So I am officially served and everything.”
Noah may sound sort of upbeat about the way that the past year has been going, but he is also asking fans for help.
He wants people to recommend “a good lawyer” to him.
Noah then joked that he’d like a divorce attorney who “wants a lot of advertisement.” In other words, it sounds like he’s hoping to at least get a discount and to use his status as a former reality TV personality to compensate the lawyer with advertising.
During the update, Noah flashed the Petition for Divorce at the screen.
We can see that Rhain filed for divorce in Okanogan County, Washington. They both still live in that county, though Noah moved out of the family home many months ago.
Interestingly, the date of separation is not January, when they shared the news.
The filing shows that they had distinct dwellings as early as September 2024.
It sounds like they held off on announcing the separation for a few months, to see if it would last. Sparing yourself potential public humiliation is smart.
Using a Facebook reel, Noah Brown offered a “separation update” that became a divorce update. (Image Credit: Facebook)
For now, the divorce seems to be fairly amicable
“I see no reason to fight it and drag it through court,” Noah Brown said of the divorce.
He added that this is “as long as everything’s fair and equal and she doesn’t try to take my kids or my property in Alaska.”
Noah emphasized: “I’m good to go,” promising to keep fans updated on the divorce.
He also had a request: to please be nice on social media. That includes his ex, Rhain, and her new man.
“Let’s keep the negativity towards my ex and her boyfriend and everything, let’s keep that nil, like, none,” Noah asked. “Very much appreciated.”
We have a very upsetting story to report out of Illinois this week.
(So please consider this a warning that the following article contains allegations of sexual abuse and other disturbing details.)
A 44-year-old mother named Robyn Polston was arrested this week on two counts of criminal sexual assault with a victim between the ages of 13 and 17 and two counts of possession of child pornography.
A 44-year-old mom named Robyn Polston has been arrested after allegedly welcoming a child with a 14-year-old. (Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office)
The arrest stems from allegations that Polston had a child by a 14-year-old boy who was identified as a friend of her daughter’s.
According to court filings obtained by People, Polston met her alleged victim when she chaperoned a school dance at which he was her daughter’s date.
The boy and his family moved away shortly after that dance, but he returned for a visit about 40 weeks before the birth of Polston’s child.
Police say the perpetrator made little effort to hide her crime, even giving her child the same middle and last name as the alleged victim.
Polston insisted the father “was a man in his twenties named Brian” who she had not seen since the birth of her child.
An affidavit issued ahead of Polston’s arrest indicates that a DNA test was performed, and the teenage victim was identified as the baby’s father.
True crime bloggers who had been watching the situation closely were overjoyed by the news that Polston had been arrested.
Many felt that the investigation dragged on for far too long, and the suspect should have been apprehended months ago.
Whatever the case, Polston is now behind bars. She’s due in court for an arraignment on December 4.
People and other outlets say they have reached out to Polston’s legal team for comment but have not yet received a response.
If you suspect that someone you know has been a victim of child abuse, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org.
The former NFL wide receiver has been arrested on an attempted murder charge stemming from a shooting after a celebrity boxing event in Miami, police and numerous celebrity gossip news outlets confirmed on Thursday.
Brown was taken into custody in Dubai by the U.S. Marshals Service and extradited to Essex County Correctional Facility in New Jersey.
Here is a look at his mug shot:
(Essex County Correctional Facility)
“Following a thorough investigation … Antonio Brown (AB) has been identified as the shooter,” the Miami Police Department wrote in a statement on November 6.
“This is just another example of the relentless work and dedication of Miami Police Detectives, working closely with Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, and U.S. Marshals to identify and arrest those who commit crimes in the City of Miami.”
A warrant was issued for the ex-All-Pro in June following the shooting … which allegedly happened on May 17 following celebrity boxing event hosted by streamer Adin Ross.
Footage posted to social media around this time seemed to depict Brown fighting with numerous individuals before the group moved to a nearby alley.
Brown can be seen running toward the group while holding something in his hand… mere seconds before a loud sound resembling gun shots is heard.
Antonio Brown visits the SiriusXM Studios on April 27, 2022 in New York City. (Getty)
A man named Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu previously told investigators one of the bullets reportedly fired by Brown grazed his neck.
“I was jumped by multiple individuals who tried to steal my jewelry and cause physical harm to me,” Brown wrote on his X account after this incident went viral.
“Contrary to some video circulating, Police temporarily detained me until they received my side of the story and then released me. I WENT HOME THAT NIGHT AND WAS NOT ARRESTED. I will be talking to my legal council and attorneys on pressing charges on the individuals that jumped me.”
He later claimed he had “CTE” as a result of having gotten too many concussions and that he “blacked out.”
A second-degree attempted murder charge carries a maximum 15-year prison sentence and up to a $10,000 fine in event of a conviction.
Antonio Brown attends Floyd Mayweather’s birthday bash at The Gabriel Miami South Beach on February 24, 2022 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images)
Brown has had multiple legal issues in the past, including a 2019 civil case in which he was accused of sexually assaulting a former trainer.
The following year, Brown pleaded no contest to felony battery and burglary. Then, in 2023, he was arrested for failure to pay child support.
Brown who spent 12 years in the NFL; he last played in 2021 for Tampa Bay, but spent most of his career with Pittsburgh.
For his career, Brown hauled in 928 receptions for more than 12,000 yards and 83 touchdowns.
Helping propel Abigail Spanberger’s dominant win in the Virginia governor’s race Tuesday are dissatisfied rural voters who have supported Donald Trump.
Spanberger’s victory was largely driven by massive turnout in northern and eastern Virginia’s urban areas. But she picked up support across the state’s deep-red central and western counties, where Trump’s tariffs have hit the manufacturing and agricultural industries especially hard. Even as her GOP opponent won most of those places, Spanberger posed the best performance by a statewide Democratic candidate in several cycles, according to a POLITICO analysis of voting data in the localities classified as “rural” by the federal government.
Rural voters are dissatisfied with economic conditions, including Trump’s erratic tariff threats that have impacted farmers throughout the country. The result was a rude awakening for some rural-state Republicans, who have long relied on large margins in these deep-red areas.
“Last night, honestly, was an awakening for a lot of folks,” said Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.V.) Wednesday. “If you don’t pick up on what really happened last night, the margin of victory … then I think you’re living in a cave.”
Spanberger outperformed Kamala Harris’ margin in 48 of Virginia’s 52 rural localities. And according to exit polling, she won 46 percent of rural voters — an 8-point deficit to Republican rival Winsome Earle-Sears, and a 19-point swing from 2021 Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe’s 27-point disadvantage.
And she accomplished that after emphasizing Trump’s tariffs on the campaign trail.
Now national Democrats, feeling bullish after Tuesday’s big wins, are praising Spanberger’s performance in rural areas as a blueprint for the party in the upcoming midterms, when netting three seats will hand them control of the House.
“Last night’s results show Democrats can win back rural voters with a relentless focus on affordability,” said Eli Cousin, spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on Wednesday. “The results are also a massive warning sign for House Republicans … who have made life harder for rural Americans by rubber stamping cost-spiking tariffs and voting to put rural hospitals and health clinics at risk of closure.”
Spanberger, the first woman elected governor in Virginia’s history, deviated from party orthodoxy by spending significant time campaigning in the deep-red rural pockets of the state, even as recently as last week. Her messaging there focused almost exclusively on the economic issues ailing rural America during the first nine months of the Trump administration, including the seismic impact of tariffs and the fallout on rural health care from Medicaid cuts.
“People are so tired about the chaos right now from the federal government,” said Roberta Thacker-Oliver, the rural caucus chair for Virginia Democrats. “She sent a message about the everyday things, about lowering costs for people.”
Democrats see Spanbergers’ strategy as a template for the 2026 midterms. As Republicans eye redrawing more favorable House districts across the country, an aggressive push Democrats are starting to challenge, the minority party’s chances at retaking control of Congress will increasingly rely on its ability to compete in rural districts.
Chris Sloan, political director for the Democratic Governors Association, attributed Spanberger’s win to “a relentless focus on the economy and affordability.”
“These are issues that resonated with voters everywhere,” he added, “and we took advantage of that.”
