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Getty Image Blane Salamoni, the Baton Rouge police officer who shot and killed Alton Sterling in 2016, has been fired by the Louisiana city’s police department following the release of several videos detailing the incident. According to CNN, Police Chief Murphy Paul told journalists gathered at a press conference late Friday that Salamoni had been fired specifically “for violating use-of-force polices” in the matter. The fired cop’s attorney, Paul added, had “indicated the officer will appeal the chief’s decision” at a later date. As for the other officer on the scene, Howie Lake, he “will be suspended for three days without pay for losing his temper.” As for the footage made public by the police department, it includes “convenience store surveillance video, two police-worn body camera videos and a video recorded by the dashboard camera in one of the police cars.” According to The Daily Beast , an increasingly angry Salamoni repeatedly escalated the situation with Sterling outs...

Getty Image When she wasn’t busy making an incredibly awkward appearance at the Oscars , Clueless star Stacey Dash made a name for herself as a regular contributor to various Fox News programs. Soon after President Trump was inaugurated in early 2017, however, her cultural capital as a conservative from Hollywood ran out, as the right-leaning cable news network decided to let her go . Not that it really mattered, though, because Dash found several ways to try and keep her name relevant — including announcing her bid for the U.S. Congress in February. A month later, however, she declared she was dropping out of the race. “After much prayer, introspection and discussions with my family, I am withdrawing my candidacy for California’s 44th Congressional District,” Dash explained in a statement emailed to CNN and other outlets: “I started this run with the intention to address the pressing issues in the district where I live,” Dash said in the statement. “I hoped, and remain hopef...

Getty Image According to an independent autopsy ordered by the family of Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man who was shot and killed by Sacramento police , he was shot eight times, mostly from behind or from the side. What’s more, the autopsy determined that Clark did not succumb to his wounds immediately, instead dying after three to 10 minutes. As the New York Times and others are reporting , the study’s conclusions have raised questions about why Clark “was not given more immediate medical care after the shooting,” during which time police apparently muted their body cameras . Information previously released by the Sacramento Police Department revealed that two officers had fired more than 20 times at Clark when they confronted him in his family’s own backyard. The autopsy conducted by Dr. Bennet Omalu, the medical examiner contracted by the family’s lawyer, determined that eight of those bullets hit their mark : According to Dr. Omalu, Mr. Clark was shot four times in the ...

UPROXX/Beyonce The royal reign continues as Beyonce deflects from the bite heard ’round the world with a new line of merch. Queen Bey is channeling another monarch — Queen Nefertiti, the reputed “most beautiful woman ever” — in a new collection on her online store (the first since her Valentine’s Day-themed capsule ). Our royal highness is dressed like the Egyptian queen in five new pieces with a toned down color scheme: her photos are in black and white, and the pieces — a long-sleeved shirt, two crop tops, a regular tee, and a hoodie — only come in white, black, and orange. Beyonce is featured only from the neck up in each, but her head is adorned in what the ancient ruler, King Tut’s mother, is featured wearing in numerous depictions. We have quite a few hypotheses as to why Bey would have chosen Nefertiti for this capsule: Recently, people online have been criticizing a bust of Queen Nefertiti that was reconstructed using her remains for looking noticeably more European than...

WARNER BROS. [Spoilers for Ready Player One and anyone who forgot about the 1980s] You can count on at least one great set piece in almost every Steven Spielberg movie. Ready Player One , despite not being the director’s finest work , has two: an early car chase involving King Kong, Rexy from Jurassic Park , and a DeLorean; and a quest that takes place within the Overlook Hotel from The Shining . There’s the blood-filled elevator (as long as we’re doing references: “Usually the blood gets off at the second floor”), the creepy girls, the Room 237. It’s also a scene that doesn’t happen in Ernest Cline’s book the film is based on. “In the book, it’s more like a karaoke thing that you do, and Ernie’s a big fan of [the action satire] Last Action Hero ,” screenwriter Zak Penn told Cinema Blend . “One of the big changes was you walk through and have to repeat the lines from the movie, I said, ‘No, let’s do Last Action Hero . Let’s throw you into the movie!’ Wouldn’t it be better, no mat...

Getty Image Judging by the sheer number of people who have left or been forced out since President Trump clinched the 2016 election, it’s safe to say that the White House is having a bit of a staffing problem. Then again, the recent Rob Porter scandal and its many tendrils have proven this point to be true even when the president and his advisers actually like the people they’re working with. That those who remain are having trouble making the necessary political appointments shouldn’t come as a surprise, especially since, as the Washington Post reports , these largely inexperienced staffers are too busy vaping and icing each other. According to the report , the Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) in particular is “[suffering] from inexperience and a shortage of staff,” which is thereby preventing the influential group “responsible for recruiting and vetting thousands of political appointees” from accomplishing anything of note. For starters, two of the office’s leaders have “...

Mitch Kutsche Michael Chernow was in the middle of run when he came up for the name of his new seafood restaurant concept, Seamore’s . “I had been struggling with a few ideas,” says Chernow. “I was zoned out in the middle of my route and it just clicked. I wanted to say that people should be eating more well-sourced and sustainable seafood. On top of that it just sounds like the name of a sweet old man who you’d like to hang with. It was perfect.” Clearly the venture worked, as Seamore’s is now opening the doors to a shiny new Dumbo location, in Brooklyn. Half of the duo behind of The Meatball Shop, Chernow is no stranger to stumbling onto game-changing epiphanies while pounding the pavement. “I came up with the idea for the Meatball Smash sandwich during a run,” he admits. Scores of late-night Manhattan eaters are grateful for that concoction — a sandwich made of two meatballs smashed inside a brioche bun along with a healthy array of toppings. We recently caught up with the New...