Oklahoma woman attacked because she looks like Casey Anthony

Chouteau Clerk Mistaken For Casey Anthony Attacked With Minivan

Posted: Jul 14, 2011 5:51 PM EDT

Lacie Lowry, News On 6

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CHOUTEAU, Oklahoma — An Oklahoma woman believes outrage over the Florida murder case almost cost her her life. The 26-year-old says a crazed woman tried to kill her because the woman thought she was Casey Anthony.

It happened in Chouteau last Friday night, July 8, 2011, just days after the Casey Anthony verdict.

Sammay Blackwell hopes she never hears this again:

“You look like Casey Anthony, I’m like ‘okay,'” she said.

Blackwell doesn’t think it’s funny after what happened last week.

Blackwell works at a convenience store in Chouteau and said Shireen Nalley came in that night around 10 p.m. and looked strange, very suspicious, then left after buying gas.

“I just couldn’t keep my eyes off of her,” she said.

Sammay got off work at 10:30 that night and walked out to her car, which was parked on the other side of the building, and got inside.

“Began to back out and looked and I could tell she was staring directly at me; I could almost see the whites of her eyes,” she recalled.

“I proceeded to pull out of the parking lot, and she was right behind me,” Sammay said.

Blackwell drove a few miles and says Nalley suddenly rammed her van into the back of Blackwell’s truck.

“I said, ‘Oh my God, help me,'” Blackwell told News On 6.

She then pulled into a parking lot to get away.

“She hit me again, causing my vehicle to flip two and a half times, landing on the driver’s side, and I just laid there playing dead,” she said.

Blackwell’s mother says she’ll never forget her daughter’s reaction.

“I got to her, she was crying, she was shaking, she says, ‘Mama, this lady thinks I’m Casey Anthony and she tried to kill me,” her mother said.

Police chased Nalley for a while and finally arrested her for assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Nalley told police she was “trying to save the children.”

“She said that I was trying to hurt babies, I was killing babies and she was going to stop it before it happened again,” Blackwell recalled. “She could have taken me away from my family, my daughter.”

Blackwell’s daughter is also named Caylee — the only thing Sammay said she has in common with Casey Anthony.

“I don’t look that much like her, so what about people who actually do look like her and live closer to Florida, instead of Oklahoma, what’s going to happen to those people?” she said.

Nalley is in the Mayes County Jail on complaints of assault and battery with a deadly weapon, leaving the scene of a vehicle collision, resisting arrest and reckless driving. She is being held on a $25,000 bond.

Police say Nalley seemed to be on drugs when they arrested her. She’s in the Mayes County Jail on a $25,000 bond.

Sammay Blackwell wants to get a restraining order against Nalley. Blackwell also says she’s struggling with Nalley’s car insurance right now and claims the company won’t cover the damage if Nalley hit her on purpose.

http://www.newson6.com/story/15084225/woman-mistaken-for-casey-anthony-attacked

Hundreds of Entitlement Crowd in mad rush for Dallas County Rental Vouchers

Hundreds scramble for Dallas County rental vouchers

by CYNTHIA VEGA and REBECCA LOPEZ

WFAA

Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:11 PM

Updated today at 12:33 PM

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 DALLAS — At least eight people were hurt Thursday morning while scrambling to line up for a limited number of Dallas County rental vouchers — after waiting for hours in their cars.

People lined up Thursday morning to apply for Dallas County Section 8 housing vouchers. Dallas County sheriff’s spokesman Kim Leach estimated the crowd at about 5,000.

The office at the Jesse Owens Memorial Complex wasn’t supposed to open until 8 a.m., but some applicants started lining up at 10 o’clock Wednesday night.

Police kept people off school district property until the gates opened at 6 a.m. That resulted in a long string of cars lined up on the streets.

Doors were opened early.

Hundreds of  people rushed the line, causing moments of unruliness.

“I started running and I slipped and fell,” said applicant Jordan Spivey, who suffered cuts and scrapes as she was caught up in the crowd. But she said she feels lucky that she wasn’t trampled.

“It was a madhouse,” said applicant Ada McKinsey, who was injured as the crowd closed in around the door. “People pushing, fighting.”

But authorities eventually gained control.

Seven people were treated by paramedics. None were taken to the hospital.

The question is: Why didn’t organizers plan for more people and have more security in place to keep the crowds under control?

Organizers of the event said they didn’t plan for people to start arriving until Thursday morning. But people who started showing up as early as Wednesday afternoon were told to come back later, so people started lining up.

The parking lot to the facility was closed, so applicants had to park along the streets in the neighborhood.

The Dallas County Sheriff’s office said that they planned for the event, adding that Dallas police should have had patrol officers out directing traffic.

But, according to DPD, they weren’t notified there was any problem until after 6 a.m. Dallas police did send some officers to the scene, but were told the county had it under control.

“There is no perfect way we feel with Dallas, DISD and Dallas County security that we have managed the situation well,” said Dallas County Health and Human Services Department director Dr. Zachary Thompson. “Of course, we have people break line, running. That’s to be expected.”

But Dallas police said they could have controlled the crowds better had they known in advance about the event and been involved in its planning.

High-ranking Dallas officers said they weren’t informed, so they didn’t have a plan in place. they could have had their response teams ready and extra patrol officers. The county and DISD were in charge of security.

The federally-subsidized vouchers pay a portion of the rent, based on household income.

This is the first time in five years that the Dallas County waiting list for vouchers has been open.

Even though there was a lot of confusion on Thursday morning, once applicants got inside, the process was a lot easier.

Anyone who wanted to apply for a Section 8 housing voucher had to fill out a one-page form in person through Dallas County Health and Human Services.

Health officials said they processed 4,000 to 5,000 applicants on Thursday morning, adding that as many as 15,000 could ask to be put on a list with only 3,800 vouchers available over the next few years.

So just filling out the form doesn’t mean applicants will get help with their rent. Thompson emphasizes that they meet eligibility requirements.

“This process is a real user-friendly process,” Dr. Thompson said. “It may be two to four years before they actually receive a voucher.”

The application center was scheduled to remain open until 5 p.m. Thursday at the Ellis Davis Field House, 9191 South Polk Street, in Dallas.

E-mail cvega@wfaa.com and rlopez@wfaa.com

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Hundreds-line-up-for-Dallas-County-Rental-Vouchers-125555383.html

Joy Behar – Lawyer Sims would you let Casey babysit your kids? video response

This speaks volumes!

Lawyers fear Casey Anthony won’t show for depostion, file emergency motion

Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez is suing Casey Anthony for defamation. Hearing is set for 10 a.m. Friday.

By Amy Pavuk, Orlando Sentinel5:13 p.m. EDT, July 13, 2011

Lawyers suing Casey Anthony for defamation are so concerned she won’t show up for an upcoming deposition that they filed an emergency motion today asking a judge to compel her to appear.

Anthony, who will be released from the Orange County Jail on Sunday, is scheduled to be questioned under oath Tuesday morning at the downtown Orlando office of the Morgan & Morgan law firm.

It’s unknown where Anthony will go after her jail release.

The attorneys representing Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, the Kissimmee woman suing Anthony, noted in their motion it has widely been reported Anthony will leave the area after her jail release.

“The undersigned has a good faith basis to believe that the Defendant, CASEY ANTHONY, will leave the jurisdiction of this Court, disguise herself, change her name, etc., making it impossible to ever depose her,” the motion said.

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The attorneys said it is “imperative” they question Anthony.

They also presented another option — the lawyers are willing to depose Anthony at the jail before she is released.

Anthony told detectives in 2008 that her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie was kidnapped by a babysitter named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez.

Detectives said no such nanny existed, and the Kissimmee woman eventually filed suit against Anthony.

During Anthony’s murder trial, defense attorney Jose Baez said Anthony fabricated the story about Zenaida, and that Caylee accidentally drowned in the family’s pool.

Anthony was found not guilty last week of murdering Caylee, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter. Jurors convicted Anthony of four counts of lying to law-enforcement.

In their emergency motion, the attorneys representing Fernandez-Gonzalez asked a judge to compel Anthony to be deposed Tuesday, or in the alternative, before she’s released from jail.

A hearing was set for the issue 10 a.m. Friday before Judge Jose Rodriguez.

Because Anthony is under subpoena to appear, she is legally required to attend the deposition. If she doesn’t show, the attorneys for Fernandez-Gonzalez could file a motion to show cause.

If that were to occur, a hearing would be scheduled and Anthony would have to explain to a judge why she didn’t attend the deposition.

Anthony’s attorney in the civil case, Charles M. Greene, was unavailable this afternoon and did not immediately return a phone call.

apavuk@tribune.com or 407-420-5735

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony/os-casey-anthony-release-deposition-20110713,0,1715211.story

George Anthony plans to lobby for Florida to pass ‘Caylee’s Law’

By Lilly Rockwell, The News Service of Florida7:56 p.m. EDT, July 13, 2011

 

TALLAHASSEE — The public outcry over Casey Anthony‘s not-guilty verdict has unleashed a wave of “Caylee’s Law” proposals in more than 20 states.

Politicians are clamoring to file bills that would stiffen penalties against parents or caretakers who do not report their children missing promptly. Anthony did not report her child missing for 31 days.

States considering Caylee’s Law bills include Texas, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Missouri, California, Colorado, Georgia, and several others, according to news reports. But only three states — Florida, New Jersey and Tennessee — actually have bills filed, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

One supporter of Florida’s Caylee’s Law is George Anthony, the father of Casey Anthony and grandfather to Caylee, according to the Washington Post.

 

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“This is a great legacy for my granddaughter. Other children still need assistance. If it reflects on my daughter, well, so be it,” George Anthony wrote in an email to the Post, saying he plans to lobby for the bill in Florida.

The high-profile murder trial of Casey Anthony this summer captured the attention of the nation, with television pundits dissecting each day of the trial. Anthony was accused of murdering 2-year-old daughter Caylee, whose body was found near her Orlando home in December 2008.

One of the pieces of evidence used against Anthony was her failure to report her daughter missing for 31 days, with pictures having surfaced of her allegedly partying with friends during that time.

The jury’s decision July 5 to acquit Anthony on murder charges has provoked outrage and anger across the nation. By the next day, an online petition had gathered hundreds of signatures pushing for a “Caylee’s Law.”

It only took 24 hours for one Florida lawmaker to suggest a “Caylee’s Law” bill. By the end of last week, not only had other Florida lawmakers suggested similar measures, but lawmakers across the nation were proposing “Caylee’s Law” bills that impose strict penalties on parents or caretakers for not reporting children missing.

Florida’s proposed law (HB 37) would also make it a felony to not report a child’s death within two hours.

Another Florida legislator is taking a different tack. Rep. Scott Randolph, D-Orlando, is proposing legislation that would prohibit jurors from receiving money in exchange for providing information or interviews related to a trial after it’s over.

At least one juror in the Casey Anthony trial is reportedly soliciting money for interviews about the experience.

Laws crafted in response to child deaths are not new. When 9-year-old Texas girl Amber Hagerman was kidnapped in 1996, she inspired the “Amber Alert” laws that set up emergency alerts for missing children. In Florida in 2005, when 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford was found dead and a sex offender convicted of the crime, she inspired a new law that required more rigid tracking of sex offenders.

But with “Caylee’s Law,” some critics have already emerged, questioning whether the bills are needed and might have unintended consequences, such as punishing grief-stricken parents for not reporting deaths quickly enough.

“People running for office have no imagination,” said Joe Episcopo, a Tampa-based criminal defense attorney. “They think that if they do this they might get a vote. They are trying to capitalize on everyone’s disappointment.”

Episcopo said instances of parents not reporting children missing are extremely rare.

“We don’t have a problem anyway, this problem doesn’t exist. It is manufactured,” Episcopo said.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony/os-casey-anthony-caylees-law-20110713,0,7728615.story

Florida Statute Allows Man To Get Away With Bigamy

Las Vegas Marriage Not In State Attorney’s Jurisdiction

POSTED: Wednesday, July 13, 2011

UPDATED: 7:06 am EDT July 14, 2011

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida man has two wives, two families and two marriage certificates, but under Florida’s current bigamy law, the state cannot do a thing about it.

Tait “Tater” Michael Bennett was arrested and booked on bigamy charges last October after his wife, Heather Marie Bennett, discovered he had married another woman in Las Vegas.

Heather Bennnet said her husband, “Swore it never even happened,” but Clark County, Nev., records confirmed a marriage certificate was issued to Michael T. Bennett and Amy Bessey on Nov. 4, 2005.

Tait Bennet lives in Central Florida and has a child with Amy Bennett.  Local 6 reporter Mike Holfeld found a full page of photographs posted on Amy Bennett’s Facebook page.   In them, the Bennetts appear to be happily married.  The marriage ceremony was held at the Stained Glass Chapel in Las Vegas.

Heather Bennett said she never knew about the secret wedding until she went to the Department of Children and Families seeking child support for their two children.  They separated after she said she discovered her husband was cheating on her.

A records check found another Mrs. Tait Bennett.  Much to her surprise, her husband has been married to another woman for six years.

The Department of Motor Vehicles conducted an investigation and found that Amy Bessey Bennett was legally married to Tait Bennett.Heather Bennett filed charges against her husband, but on June 28, 2011, Assistant State Attorney John N. Knutton sent her a stunning decision.  “Unfortunately, Florida case law and statute says that the second marriage must take place in Florida,” Knutton wrote.

Heather and Tait Bennett were married in Fort Pierce, Fla., in 2000.  She said it feels like the law is allowing her husband to laugh at her and the system. “It’s like almost getting away with murder, because he’s murdered my life,” Heather Bennett said.

Under Florida statute 826.01, anyone “having a husband or wife living (and) marries another person” is guilty of a 3rd-degree felony.

Attorney Steven Lockhart, a former state legislative researcher, said Bennett has violated “the spirit of the law.”Lockhart said a simple adjustment in the language would ensure that Florida would not be a haven for bigamists.The Florida state attorney sent a complete file of the case to Clark County District Attorney David Roger.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/28533498/detail.html

Minority Feelings and Violent Facts

http://www.americanthinker.com/print…_violence.html

Minority Feelings and Violent Facts
By John T. Bennett

What is the most important thing about mobs of black teens attacking and seriously injuring innocent pedestrians and businesses? The feelings of teenagers who share the race of the attackers, according to Chicago’s local CBS affiliate.

That’s right: Mobs of teenagers have unleashed terror in the streets of Chicago and other cities in “flash mobs,” and the best thing CBS in Chicago has to say about that is that black teenagers are worried about racial profiling.

George Orwell would shudder after reading this headline: “Some Worry Mob Attacks Are Encouraging Racial Profiling.” In the story, a journalist interviews young black teens hanging out at North Avenue Beach, the scene of one of the mob attacks. We learn that some in this group “feel targeted as potential troublemakers because of recent attack mobs in the city.” No one is alleging that profiling has occurred as a result of the flash mobs, just that it might, and that possibility bothers some teenagers. That’s the subject matter of an entire news story in our post-racial America.

The subjective opinions of black teens matter as much as those of all other teens. But do those feelings matter enough to warrant a news story? Compare the triviality of that story with the full scope of flash mob attacks in Chicago:

In early June, witnesses reported that “gangbangers” were pushing people off their bikes at a Chicago beach. One witness told NBC local that “[t]hey were being rude and abusive and throwing trash around and defecating” and beating people. Also, in just one weekend in early June, twelve attacks involving large groups of “young men” were reported. These attacks in the normally placid North Side gained attention. The chosen victims: a 68-year-old white doctor, a 34-year-old white insurance salesman, a Thai man, a Filipino nursing student, and a 42-year-old Japanese doctor. All were either beaten, robbed, or both. Those arrested: three young black men, a fact we only know because of mugshots since it is the official policy of the Chicago Tribune to censor the race of criminal mobs in its journalism, if not its commentary section.

These attacks might just seem like fun and games, but now some of the attackers are armed. In two incidents the first weekend in June, 8 to 15 teens boarded a bus without paying and “began hitting people,” according to the Chicago Tribune. Three of those teens are charged with armed robbery, one with unlawful use of a weapon. A week later, a boy with no race was attacked by “a group of seven male teens,” all “black,” according to news reports, and one with a handgun.

There were also flash mob robberies in January 2011 when mobs of teens raided and robbed at least three stores. In February, Loyola University Chicago warned students and staff about “flash mob offenders” stealing from retail stores near campus. In April 2011, a group of 70 “youths” invaded a McDonald’s and “created a disturbance” according to a news report. So there is a troubling trend towards mob violence perpetrated by black teens. Despite all of this, of all the topics CBS Chicago could have chosen, they chose to ruminate about the feelings of young black teens.

The problem with the CBS story is that there will be no corresponding story about victims’ feelings. There certainly will be no similar story about the subjective opinions of non-blacks regarding predominantly black mobs. It’s not just that there is a double standard; it’s that there is a suffocating level of deception involved in these news stories.

How did we reach the point where the only group whose feelings need to be consulted are minorities? Liberalism. Part of liberalism is the notion that minorities need special help, attention, and heightened sensitivity. Along with that, liberalism promotes white guilt and the peculiar desire to “help people” at any cost. The result is that the media gives credence and coverage to mere feelings when real people are being attacked. Of course, the worse the violence gets, the more sensitive we’ll have to be. The flash mobs and mob attacks will require the utmost sensitivity from us, as they are only going to increase. They’ve already occurred in Atlanta, Kansas City, Boston, Nashville, Charlotte, St. Paul, Minnesota, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Columbia, South Carolina, and even in Iowa on what was called “beat whitey night.”

We face the nightmarish reality of low-level ethnic conflict. If these violent mob attacks worsen, they will be a precursor to severe racial tension. These flash mobs already constitute the worst acts of racist violence in recent American history. Now, how do we go from that reality to a story about black teens’ feelings? The answer is that society has twisted priorities about race and social responsibility. Given the white guilt saturation that young people receive in our educational system, it’s easy to see why the media would give such frivolous treatment to flash mobs. One of the great successes of modern liberalism is that it has constrained our public debate about racial issues. A sheep-like media, craven politicians, and thoughtless academics have all failed in their duty to grapple with this social problem. With enough layers of guilt piled upon us, we can’t even see the problem staring us in the face. The media is creating an atmosphere of passive ignorance towards racial violence, and that ignorance places all of us at risk.

If there was this level of racial tension and violence in a situation where the races were reversed, there would be a nationwide clamor for healing, compensation, and awareness. Instead, we’re treated to sappy stories about teenagers’ feelings. “Some Worry Mob Attacks Are Encouraging Racial Profiling,” says the news. One waits for the article entitled “Some Worry Mob Attacks Are Encouraging Anti-white Violence.”

The Knockout Game: Racial Violence and the Conspicuous Silence of the Media

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The Knockout Game: Racial Violence and the Conspicuous Silence of the Media
By John T. Bennett

By now, almost everyone has seen one of the semi-amusing videos of black teen mobs rampaging through a store. Maybe we’ve even seen the non-amusing pictures of the victims, or heard their stories. Most Americans have heard of recent violent “flash mobs,” which are the bands of black teens that attack mostly white victims and white businesses, as even the New York Times once noted.

But the flash mobs, which are more accurately called “race riots” or “racial mob violence,” are not the only interesting topic to cover in our national conversation about race. There is also the “knockout game,” which is stunning in its brutal simplicity and stark racial significance.

The knockout game involves “unprovoked attacks on innocent bystanders,” according to police who have had to deal with it. A retired officer explained, “Normally it was a group of black males, one of which would strike him as hard as he could in the face, attempting to knock him out with one punch,” says retired Sgt. Don Pizzo. The victims are typically not robbed, but simply punched with no provocation. Such attacks have been reported in Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, and New Jersey.

The knockout game has claimed at least one life so far. In St. Louis this year, 72-year old Hoang Nguyen was walking with his wife, Yen, when four “young people” attacked. The attacker pushed the old man’s face to the side to make a “clear target for his fist,” recalled his wife. Nguyen was punched so hard that he fell to the ground and struck his head. Then the attacker turned on Nguyen’s 59-year-old wife, punching her so hard that she suffered a broken eye socket. She could only watch as her husband was then kicked repeatedly. Hoang succumbed to his injuries later that day. A young black male, 18-year-old Elex Murphy, is charged with first-degree murder.

In addition, a mob of young black males can be seen playing the game here. The video shows the group attacking a young white man named Adam Taylor, who was left with internal bleeding, bruising of the brain, severe whiplash, and scratches on his face when he was beaten in Columbia, MO in 2009.

Sgt. Pizzo noted that the attacks fit a pattern: “black attackers on a white victim — and the victim was often an older person walking alone.” In a thorough and sensible piece on the subject in a local arts and entertainment magazine, eight of the victims interviewed were white, one was black, and one was Latino. All of the attackers, or “players,” were black. Some witnesses claim that they have white relatives who play the game and that therefore the game is not a racial issue. But anyone who reviews the reporting — when race is revealed, at least — will see that the attackers are predominantly if not exclusively black.

As one player of the game says, “[w]e used to walk to where a lot of people be at and hit ’em. If one of the homeboys didn’t knock him out, then the other would come. Whoever knock him out would be king.”

Local media outlets have failed to report on the racial aspect of the attacks. At best, the media will allow the race of attackers to be revealed by mugshots, or quotations from police or victims. This follows a conscious policy of self-censorship that has been openly admitted by major newspapers.

A New York Times editor says that his paper will report on race “only if it’s relevant to the story” or if readers would “learn something” from the description. The Chicago Tribune’s editor, Gerould Kern, explains his paper’s “approach” to concealing the truth: “We do not reference race unless it is a fact that is central to telling the story.” Of course, no guilt-ridden white liberal editor will ever admit that race is relevant, unless of course a white is attacking minorities. The Los Angeles Times explains that the media will not report race because they don’t want to “unfairly stigmatize racial groups.” The Washington Post ombudsman openly admits that the Times’s staff “worried about hyping a story that involved race” when blacks brawled on the Metro. Instead of stigmatizing racial groups, the liberal media prefers to condemn minorities via low expectations and preferential, secretive reporting — which only creates a cloud of ominous suspicion over the race issue. But at least racial groups aren’t being stigmatized.

A senior reporter from the Houston Chronicle admits, “We don’t ever include race normally — unless race is made an issue by other people.” In other words, if racial interest groups make something of the issue, race will become part of the story. And we all know which racial groups advocate on their own behalf, and which one doesn’t.

The liberal media policy of resolute silence about race and crime may strike a reasonable observer as troubling, given the violence and obvious racial aspect of the knockout game and flash mob attacks. The net effect of this Orwellian reporting is to place minority feelings above the public interest in safety. For those of us who are curious about our society and group behavior, who should be able to rely on the professional media, the reporting is worthless.

When the liberal media does touch on the topic of race and flash mobs, it is only to condemn conservative blogs for mentioning race at all. The Village Voice, for instance, thoughtlessly dismisses the concerns about racial mob violence, reasoning that because crime is falling, racial mob violence shouldn’t be criticized. The progressive tendency will be to define these stories as isolated incidents — it is easy extrapolate a social problem, but that could be misleading in the big picture.

But the knockout game must be seen in the context of black-on-white violence in America. The big picture is that black-on-white violence is a social problem that deserves more attention, regardless of whether the overall crime rate is rising or falling. Department of Justice statistics show that 33% of white murder victims are killed by a non-white, while only 8% of black murder victims are killed by a non-black1. Even greater disparities exist in violent crime and robbery2.

Some of those who work with these kids blame boredom and the kids’ need to prove their toughness. Those causes will be present for a long time, thus the problem will remain. Moreover, the problem will predictably get worse, as some of the mobs are armed.

Hoang Nguyen will not receive the same attention as Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. After all, Hoang was not the victim of white hatred, so he is not a household name…but he should be.

Greta Interview with Jury Foreman Part 3

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1052652701001/hollywood-nation-brangelina-to-make-it-official#/v/1053052792001/foreman-on-casey-she-has-issues-shell-battle-forever/?playlist_id=87485

 

The whole cartoon didn’t show up but the answer is ………..WAIT FOR IT…….IT’S COMING…….

THE JURY