On February 23rd, 2020, a 25-year-old man by the name of Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed while he was taking a jog around his neighbourhood in Brunswick, Georgia. According to TMZ, the killing is being regarded as a modern day lynching, seeing as the perpetrator, a white man named Travis McMichael, shot Ahmaud, an unarmed black man. Travis, the son of a former district attorney investigator, Gregory McMichael, who was in the back of Travis’ truck while he shot Ahmaud to death in the street, has yet to be charged or even arrested for his abhorred actions. However, after reviewing the graphic footage of the shooting, D.A. Pro Tempore Tom Durden has called on a grand jury to determine the criminal charges.

“I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges against those involved in the death of Mr. Arbery,” Durden’s statement read. “I have no control over the suspensions due to the pandemic, however, I do intend to present the case to the next available grand jury in Glynn County.” In the now viral video, Travis and Ahmaud struggled over the former’s shotgun while the latter attempted to get away. Two shots were fired before Ahmaud collapsed.

Both Travis and his father are claiming that they were making a citizen’s arrest when they stopped Ahmaud on the street. They allege that he fit the description of a suspect in a string of recent break-ins in the area.

“Mr. Arbery had not committed any crime and there was no reason for these men to believe they had the right to stop him with weapons or to use deadly force in furtherance of their unlawful attempted stop,”S. Lee Merritt, the attorney representing Ahmaud’s family, stated. “This is murder.”

Remember when you were younger and your parents used to ask you, "If your friend jumped off a bridge, would you do it?" The question was meant to feel dumb about not properly exercising your free-will. Turns out, the youth is still in need of this valuable lesson, especially with the advent of TikTok. The video-sharing app largely thrives off short clips of people participating in viral trends, also known as challenges. While a TikTok challenge could be as simple as imitating some dance moves to a particular song, sometimes they challenge your physical capabilities to a greater extent. For example, can two people kick your legs from beneath you while you're mid-air without seriously injuring yourself? This brilliant idea is fittingly referred to as the #SkullBreakerChallenge. 

The person who has their legs kicked isn't actually supposed to know what's coming for them. The goal of the challenge is for two people to humiliate a third person by flipping them with this trick. It's done by the two people convincing the third that they will all jump at the same time for some irrelevant reason. Once the middle person is in the air, the two terrible friends on the edges kick the floating limbs to send the victim into a painful fall. 

Round two in actor Jussie Smollett's ongoing legal proceedings involving his alleged hate crime hoax from 2019 have officially began. However, it looks like the ex-Empire star sees things moving positively in his favor after TMZ caught up with him at the airport for a quick and candid conversation.

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Smollett was approached while navigating to his car alongside his lawyer, both seen above entering the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Monday (February 24) in Chicago, and he was surprisingly a bit vocal when it came to giving a comment to the gossip outlet. "It's definitely frustrating, but you just have to — it's fight or die at this point," Jussie said in response to TMZ's question about how he's holding up. He went on to add that he doesn't "claim" to be innocent and that he in fact is, also stating that "the truth is the best defense" when asked whether he felt saying he didn't do it or claiming double jeopardy was the best defense at this point.

Follow the link below to watch the full clip over on TMZ, and let us know where your own opinion falls in this whole ordeal by sounding off down in the comments:  

Just when you thought you’d heard the last of the Jussie Smollett scandal, the news cycle begins again. The media was inundated with stories pertaining to the alleged hoax attack orchestrated by Jussie Smollett. The actor insisted that he was attacked by two white men hurling homophobic and racial slurs, but not everyone believed his story. It was the assertion of the Chicago Police Department that Jussie plotted to create a fake attack for publicity purposes.

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Discussions were divided as Jussie’s scandal made him a meme and joke target of social media. In Spring 2019, the criminal charges against him were dismissed. Yet, the City of Chicago isn’t quite done with him. He’s been tacked with six new charges of disorderly conduct, some relating to what police say were false reports of a hate crime.

Aside from the criminal case stacked against him, Jussie also faces the lawsuit set forth by the City of Chicago. The City states that they wasted half a million dollars in financial resources on Jussie’s case, and they want the actor to pay restitution.  TMZ speculates that if Jussie if found guilty in his criminal case, the odds for the City’s lawsuit ending in their favor increases.

The outlet also states that they know “Abel and Ola Osundairo — the 2 brothers who Jussie says attacked him — will testify that the whole thing was a setup masterminded by Jussie.” The Smollett drama is far from over.