Hit BBC comedy Ghosts is to end after the upcoming fifth season, bringing to a close one of the BBC’s most successful family comedies of the past generation.
18.03.2023 - 03:05 / perezhilton.com
[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content]This is horrifically upsetting in so many ways…
In late September 2022, Rasheem Carter moved to Taylorsville, Mississippi to start a new lumber contracting job. But his life quickly took a dark turn — before its brutal ending. On October 1, the 25-year-old called his mother to tell her he was afraid for his life as he was being harassed and followed by a group of white men in three pickup trucks, yelling racial slurs at him.
The young Black man made it to the police station and, according to his mother, told them he feared for his life. He also asked for a ride home to the Super 8 motel he was staying at in Laurel, about 22 miles away. (It may sound far to some, but in rural Mississippi it’s not unusual to have to drive that far from town to town.) The Taylorsville Police Department confirmed to HuffPost that Carter asked for a ride — and that they rejected his request because they were not a “taxi service.” They deny the father-of-one ever mentioned fearing for his life.
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Eventually Carter calmed down his mother by sending her a message saying, “I’m good, Mama.” It was the last she’d hear from him. She called the police and reported him missing the next day. She told HuffPost:
Without a police escort he never made it back to the motel that evening. And he wasn’t found for another month — until November 2 when cops found his remains in a wooded area close by the Taylorsville station. He didn’t make it far at all.
What happened to him? The Smith County Sheriff’s Office, which has been handling the investigation, released a statement on November 3 saying:
The autopsy weeks later, by the state
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Snoop Dogg live on air earlier this month.Meteorologist and news anchor Barbie Bassett has not been seen on air for the NBC affiliate WLBT since 8 March, according to Deadline (as reported by The Independent). The website claims that during her last appearance on the channel’s morning show Bassett caused controversy while she and other team members were discussing Snoop Dogg.Joining in a chat about Snoop’s line of wines, Bassett is reported as quoting the rapper, saying: “Fo shizzle, my nizzle.” The reference came up when the idea of a collaboration between the ‘Doggyland’ rapper and a newsroom journalist was raised – see the tweet below for a video clip of the incident from Huffpost’s Philip Lewis.Longtime Mississippi news anchor appears to no longer be employed with the news team after saying, "Fo shizzle, my nizzle" on airhttps://t.co/O5tFTsac1g pic.twitter.com/hs01IyVQaL— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 24, 2023“Nizzle” is commonly cited as slang for the N-word.This was not the first time that Bassett has caused controversy either, according to reports.
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There has been no sign of a Mississippi morning news anchor woman since she voiced a Snoop Dogg phrase on air earlier this month.
a popular Snoop Dogg phrase on air earlier this month.Barbie Bassett has not returned to the anchor desk at NBC affiliate WLBT since the March 8 broadcast and is no longer listed as a member of the news team on the station’s website, the Clarion Ledger reports.The Post reached out to Bassett, WLBT and Snoop Dogg for comment.“As I am sure you can understand, WLBT is unable to comment on personnel matters,” Ted Fortenberry, the station’s regional vice president and general manager, told The Post in an emailed statement Saturday.The gaffe was made during a discussion about Snoop Dogg’s latest addition to his Cali wine line.Bassett said, “Fo shizzle, my nizzle,” when the idea of a Snoop collaboration with a newsroom journalist was raised.“Nizzle” is slang for the N-word. Bassett, who is white, also tweeted the phrase in 2011.This is not the first time Bassett, who boasts being the first chief meteorologist in WLBT’s history, has landed in hot water for her comments.The Mississippi native apologized in October 2022 after referencing a black reporter’s “grandmammy” on air.“Though not intentional, I now understand how my comment was both insensitive and hurtful.
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