Everyone was tuned in to the final two episodes of "The Last Dance" last night and with good reason. We got to watch Michael Jordan and his Chicago Bulls defeat the Utah Jazz in the NBA Finals during back-to-back seasons. Of course, the two stars of the Jazz at that time were none other than John Stockton and Karl Malone. While Stockton is respected as a great point guard, Malone doesn't seem to get much recognition as the second-highest scorer in NBA history. Although, as many people on Twitter found out last night, there is a good reason why.
Malone allegedly had a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old by the name of Gloria Bell, when he was 20 years old. She eventually gave birth to a child named Demetrius who is allegedly Malone's son. In an ESPN story from Jemele Hill that was published 12 years ago, it was revealed that the allegations were proven to credible since there was an actual DNA test given.
If you're wondering why Malone was never interviewed for "The Last Dance," or why he is never talked about in GOAT conversations, now you understand why. His reprehensible past is something people rightfully consider when talking about his legacy.
As soon as Malone was talked about in "The Last Dance," Twitter users hopped on the platform to remind people of his past. In the reactions below, you can see just how much his past has destroyed his solid NBA career.
T.I. Responds To Viral Video Of Cop Brutally Punching 14-Year-Old
A Rancho Cordova cop was caught on camera using brutally excessive force against a 14-year-old boy on the ground.
Rancho Cordova police department and sheriff's office to investigate the conduct of one of their deputy's following extreme backlash, including from major stars like T.I. and Lauren Jauregui, over a viral video that shows the officer brutally punching a 14-year-old boy. A 15-second clip that surfaced on social media shows a deputy repeatedly punching a 14-year-old child.
Police have since responded to the video with claims that the 14-year-old boy was being "uncooperative" after a cop "saw what he believed to be a hand-to-hand exchange between an adult and juvenile," Rancho Cordova Police Department and the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office. said in a statement.
The cop had reportedly lost the adult that was in the area and tried to detain the juvenile to investigate the matter. The 14-year-old is lying on the ground in the clip as he gets pummelled but the police argued that the teen was being "physically resistive" and caused the officer to lose control of his hand-cuffs. "The deputy attempted to maintain control of the juvenile without his handcuffs and while alone waiting for his partners to arrive and assist him," the statement reads.
The video that surfaced was shared on Twitter came from the teen's sister. "My baby brother who is 14 years old. All of this over a swisher there's more footage but I wasn't able to upload it all," she wrote. "And to add on: my brother has a serious heart condition that could be triggered very easily by being hit in his chest/back! He's a kid and has never been in any kind of trouble with the law! He was very scared and in so much pain!!!"
The police said claimed they later recovered tobacco products on the teenager which they believe was the reason why he resisted. "This type of situation is hard on everyone--the young man, who resisted arrest, and the officer, who would much rather have him cooperate," the statement added.
Though there was much backlash across social media, T.I. made a concerted effort to blast the police department. "This shit unacceptable!!!
No excuse to do nobody child this way!!!" Tip said on an IG Post.
Meanwhile, Lauren Jauregui quoted the official statement with a series of tweets blasting the department for even trying to defend the cop. "This officer very obviously used excessive force on a child. Not a “juvenile”; a child. He is 14 years old and clearly being assaulted by a full grown man. Punched, choked, dragged through gravel, had his head held down, and had the full weight of a grown man on top of him," she wrote.
Check out T.I. and Lauren Jauregui's response below.
Courtney Stodden Exposes Chrissy Teigen For "Bullying" & "Harassing" Her In Old Tweets
Courtney Stodden put Chrissy Teigen on blast by digging up tons of old tweets in which Chrissy "bullied," "harassed," and "slut-shamed" the then-minor.
Courtney Stodden recently came across a bunch of old tweets of Chrissy Teigen's directed at her when she was still a minor, and let's just say, they don't exactly paint Chrissy in the best light. It was revealed earlier this year that Courtney and her husband of nine years, Doug Hutchison, were officially filing for divorce, after having separated already two years prior. The couple caused major controversy when they first tied the knot back in 2011, due to the fact that Courtney was 16 years old at the time, and her actor husband was 50 years old.
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Now, it looks like Courtney is finally resolving a lot of her issues as she works on writing her memoir. On Tuesday, the now-25-year-old posted a video on Instagram indicating that this healing process has caused her to relive a lot of her past traumas, which apparently included getting "stalked," "bullied," "harassed," and "slut-shamed" by Chrissy Teigen on Twitter years ago when she was still a minor.
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"I'm going through a lot right now behind closed doors and I'm coming to a lot of revelations I guess about the choices that I made, but also that the adults made around me when I was a minor and got married," she explains in the video, which she captioned, "A Message to Chrissy Teigen." She goes on to explain that beginning in 2011, when she was 16 and had just married Doug whom she's accused of being an alcoholic who abused her, Chrissy would allegedly tweet her "almost every single day" until sometime in 2012. "This video is definitely calling out Chrissy Teigen," Courtney declares. "She stalked me. She harassed me. She bullied me, and keep in mind, I was a minor."
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"She would call me a whore, a slut, she would tell me she hated me," she continued. "Every name in the book she called me." Courtney then calls Chrissy out for her hypocrisy when she recently clapped back at some hateful comments about her body on her own Instagram photo. "I saw her in the news the other day and it was something about how she's saying people are shaming her," Courtney says. "Girl, you are a hypocrite...She was shaming me, and I was a minor. I just wish that she would've seen as an adult woman that maybe you shouldn't be hating on...a damaged teenage girl. I still see her bullying once in a while but when she comes out saying that she's stronger than people shaming her—well, you shamed a minor. An abused minor who was married to a predator at the time." She also shared several screenshots of these aforementioned tweets in a separate Instagram post.
Earlier in the video, Courtney stresses that while she and her mother have grown very close recently, she does not have a relationship with her father, who is also an alcoholic like her ex-husband allegedly is. She then addresses Chrissy directly and hopes that she'll treat her own daughter, Luna, better than Courtney was treated by her as a child. "So shame on you, Chrissy," she concludes. "You and John are great parents so I don't think you're going to sign your girl to marry a man older than John, but I hope that you can learn from this mistake because it's affected me." Chrissy has yet to respond to Courtney's accusations of online bullying.
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