Former Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson turned himself in to Houston authorities early Saturday morning. On Friday a grand jury indicted Peterson on charges of whipping his 4-year-old son with a tree branch. Peterson, 29, was booked into jail at 1 a.m. Saturday and released 30 minutes later on $15,000 bond. Houston police released this mugshot of an arrogant Peterson smiling as if he didn’t have a care in the world.
Peterson’s son lives in Minnesota with his mother. The boy traveled to Texas in May to visit with Peterson. The boy’s mother noticed fresh injuries on her son’s back, buttocks, legs and scrotum after Peterson returned him to her. A week later she took the child to a doctor who notified Houston police of a possible child abuse case.
Peterson’s attorney, Rusty Hardin, said Peterson used a tree branch to “spank” his son for pushing another son who lived with him. Hardin said Peterson used the same type of discipline that he experienced as a child growing up in east Texas.
Hardin said the injuries to the boy were “unintentional” — which is hard to believe considering Peterson reportedly whipped the child over 40 times because he refused to cry. The boy had defensive wounds on his hands and his scrotum was split.
Before returning the boy to his mother, Peterson sent her a text message admitting he hit the child on his scrotum. “Never do I go overboard!,” he wrote. “But all my kids will know, hey daddy has he biggest heart but don’t play no games when it comes to acting right.”
The Montgomery County DA’s office said Peterson went way beyond the limits of “reasonable discipline,” and that is why he was indicted for child abuse.
Peterson is a promiscuous athlete with numerous illegitimate children spread across the country. Ironically, another of Peterson’s sons was beaten to death by his mother’s boyfriend in October. Joseph Patterson, 27, will be tried next month on second-degree murder charges.
Adrian Peterson faces up to two years in prison if he is convicted of aggravated child abuse. He was suspended by the Vikings and will not play in Sunday’s home game against the NEw England Patriots.
The public backlash is mounting against Peterson as Vikings fans call for him to be banned from the NFL along with Ray Rice who knocked out his fiancée, Janay Rice, in an elevator in February.
Ray and Janay Rice are pictured above at a New Rochelle High school football game on Saturday. The couple were all smiles as they cheered on Ray Rice’s former team.
One TMZ commenter wrote: “If beating kids and wife’s created discipline and good manners then the black community would he the best behaved and most polite community in the United States.
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Wow, he really tore that baby up.
some of the most aggressive men I’ve met have been football players.
Hey Hershey
he went to far. He needs to be spoken to about the right way to discipline his babies. Definitely shouldn’t hit em while he’s mad at em.
I never hit my child whole mad at her ass… Could really kill them… His backwoods excuse ain’t cutting it now when all these people itching to make examples at their expense..
Also happy weekend roses!
40 hits on a 4 year old? If you are that bad of a parent that you can’t get a 4 year old to behave without hitting them 40 times and make them bleed, it’s something wrong with you as a parent.
I have an 8 year old who is great and knows not to cross me but, not because she is afraid that I am going to beat her bloody. Communication is key these days with kids…. unlike back in the day when parents refused to communicate and just beat kids in to submission and were proud when the kids got in line after the beating.
Hey Miany
at that age the best punishment is to take toys, and give a time out. What did that boy do to deserve that?
This is all over the news here inTexas. If that was the way he was raised, and didn’t like the way it made him feel. He should break the cycle, try a different tactic. If I give my son, 8, a look he knows I’m not playing. I’ve never been spanked, just yelled at. I don’t think beating a kid is the answer. Different strokes for different different folks. (No pun intended)
That commentator can burn in hell
Auntie I think the story may be referring to a different son. I read sources that say he’s 11, not 4, which would explain why the boy in those photos are lighter than the ones her
janay up there looking like she might have a Y chromosome… im convinced ray has typical little man syndrome. to hell w/the both of them. AND boulder headed adrian. thanks for the weekend post, auntie
Of course he doesn’t have any remorse, He ‘THINKS” WHAT HE DID WAS Right.
I believe he has a few missing brain cells or some cerebrospinal fluid has leaked out from all the hits to the head.
This man aint right,clearly.
Donte
I first read reports yesterday that the child was 11 too ;shrug:
40 hits with a tree branch because he wouldn’t cry? That’s not discipline, that’s a power struggle. Split scrotum…I’m DONE after reading that line, you hear me DONE! WTF?
Some of those pictures look like baby legs. He got a bunch of kids so, 4 or 11 it was too much.
a tree branch
whatever happened to switches 
damn a tree branch my nigga 
:consign: on that commenter burning in help
He’s not gonna be banned cause there are lots of yt folks policing for him cause they feel that discipline is an individual right. Sad to say it’s child abuse he won’t get any time but anger management, parenting class and maybe temporary supervised visits. Child abuse prosecutions and sentencing is the most liberal
Daniele Watts: Django Unchained actress detained in Los Angeles after being mistaken for a prostitute. Hollywood actress was mistaken for a prostitute by the LAPD after she was seen kissing her husband in the street.
@user
with no black lash but a black woman can’t kiss her husband fully clothed without the police being called. 
Miley Cyrus can appear in public with pasties over her
Damn how many lashings did the baby get? The scars are all over his body. I also read that he hit the baby in the testicles. That’s a sensitive area.
I can’t believe this dude is smiling in his mugshot like he did something great.
Sidebar: I am
of any Viking fan that thought it was funny to bring a switch or branch to the game yesterday in an effort to clown Mr. Peterson’s punkazz.
Child abuse in any form is never funny and should NEVER serve as material for a joke, a Vine video or thirst to go viral.
Um I guess Adrian wanted to show that he was “unbothered” by the charges by smiling by
a more somber expression would have properly conveyed the seriousness of the situation. Not smiling is not an admission of guilt dumb boy! I guess he took the expression I smile and acknowledge God even in my hard times a little too literal. 
I’m all for a good old fashion ass whooping, but he clearly went way too far. Looks like he was beating this baby out of anger and you should NEVER spank when you’re angry. The mom was absolutely right in calling the cops. I had welts left from whoopings when i was a kid but i never had scars.
Oh an I am all about disciplining your children. Even though I got whopped with switches, belts… and sometimes anything else she could grab at that time
I am not like Chris Carter blasting my mama on NATIONAL TV CRYING saying it was wrong and she did the best she could. I do spank my kids. I do not think this was a normal spanking that Adrian did based on the wounds. He broke the scene repeatedly. Once is a mistake… numerous times shows you either didn’t care or didn’t notice. If you didn’t notice then you were in a rage and that is not good. I try to NEVER spank or pop my kids on hand/butt/whatever when I am really upset with them because in that moment you are not controlled enough. I also always explain to them why. BUT first I give them every opportunity to avoid it with a verbal warning, removal of what they want, etc. I never want to be the parent that beats or spanks their kids all the time because it loses meaning and plain doesn’t make sense. You should always try to communicate and use your words first and if at all possible.
I meant try NOT to use spanking.
I can’t believe this dude is smiling in his mugshot like he did something great.
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you would be AMAZED at how many ppl are defending Adrian. lot of ppl still believe in using slave tactics to raise kids in 2014. personally, my kids are too good to get beatings. all people of all ages are but everybody doesnt see it that way.
speaking of whooping ass, Ray Rice is appealing his indefinate ban from the NFL. black ppl getting beat up must be the new hotness.
@Heart Okay!!
My eldest is pretty much a sweetheart. No trouble. This middle one. She’s very strong willed and stubborn. Smart as I don’t know what and likes to step over boundaries. Not even toe the line be like FOH 
After you have told her not to do something, took away her toys and made her sit in a corner numerous times and she still keeps trying to do the same thing she deserves a quick pop on the hand or butt 
I stand by that. You have to mold your parenting style to the kids sometimes
Oh and the baby… The boy.. He don’t want no parts of a hand pop. If he sees anybody (could be another kid) getting a spanking or their hand popped her winches and runs off like
I am about to get the F outta here. The few times I have had to pop his hand or butt he looked at me like this :crying1: and yelled WHY! WHY! WHY! Like I shot him. My husband was like that don’t make not GOTDA*M sense 
That boy can poke that lip out like nan nother. But I can tell now he holds his frustrations inside and then goes off so speaking him isn’t really the best answer. He has to learn how to express himself and communicate his feelings
so Ms. Take you just gonna leave that gravi up with that screen name?
its so eebil.
@Taken, Lil Hearts is my only one so I’m slowly learning that we may have to adapt our parenting to him. That lil joker and your middle one sound very similar. He will push and push and push knowing good and dang well he’s gonna get caught, but he just be like
oh well. Ion understand these chirren. 
It’s bad but I think it looks worse because of the skin complexion.
Savannah says:
It’s bad but I think it looks worse because of the skin complexion.
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keep in mind that the moms lives in another state so unless AP beat him at the airport before takeoff then those marks are at least a day old or so.
somebody on my fb said, “well he’s a football player so of course he’s gonna be heavy handed”
this is why I dont believe in all that spend the night mess because ppl have vastly different definitions of whats acceptable.
Complexion has nothing to do with open wounds. There is no way to explain that.
I think he went overboard with the spanking. And like stated ^^^ I too try to make spanking as a last resort punishment.
@Taken reading stories of your children remind me so much of mine. My oldest is a sweetheart but my middle child she constantly overstep boundaries.
Smh. So 40 lashings is fine for a four year old? Light skin or dark, heavy hand or no heavy hand, this is crazy. And if I was his mother, he would need a court order for me to send him back. Period. And I would fight it hard. I used to get smacked with a belt…and really that was in extreme cases. And all this because he pushed another child!? Come on. It was way too much.
@JB: Taken3
Me and my husband has discussed this at length. She actually calculate the risk and punishment of whatever act of disobedience she is about to engage in and is like 
It ain’t that bad 
So we have to be really measured with her and sit her down and talk to her like a GROWN WOMAN. And we ask her does she understand and to repeat to us what we said. She does 9/10. So when she does it again right afterwards we like she is like 
I’MMA DO ME! I’MMA DO ME 
We are thinking about making her go to college in state because if she gets out into the world by herself 
He has to learn how to express himself and communicate his feelings
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boys get on my nerves with this. good luck cuz mine is almost a teenager and he doesnt express jack. I have to use all types of inverse, transverse, & reverse psychology and still cant hardly get anything out of him.
the best thing to do is work it into the conversation during an unrelated event.
@Taken
Yep sounds just like my daughter! She just doesn’t care so much so that as kids they are expected to tell a tale if they have done something they know they will get in trouble for and well… She will do something and tell on herself 
We are thinking about making her go to college in state because if she gets out into the world by herself
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boys get on my nerves with this. good luck cuz mine is almost a teenager and he doesnt express jack.
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Exactly. Most grown men too.
Good Morning Roses
Taken
UF :fistbump:
Keya….
Hearts and Giggles
User Friendly says:
He has to learn how to express himself and communicate his feelings
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boys get on my nerves with this. good luck cuz mine is almost a teenager and he doesnt express jack. I have to use all types of inverse, transverse, & reverse psychology and still cant hardly get anything out of him.
the best thing to do is work it into the conversation during an unrelated event.
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Taking notes cause this is my sons problem too! Lawd!! Why the hell is it so hard!
User Friendly says:
He has to learn how to express himself and communicate his feelings
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boys get on my nerves with this. good luck cuz mine is almost a teenager and he doesnt express jack. I have to use all types of inverse, transverse, & reverse psychology and still cant hardly get anything out of him.
the best thing to do is work it into the conversation during an unrelated event.
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Taking notes cause this is my sons problem too! Lawd!! Why the hell is it so hard!
User Friendly says:
He has to learn how to express himself and communicate his feelings
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boys get on my nerves with this. good luck cuz mine is almost a teenager and he doesnt express jack. I have to use all types of inverse, transverse, & reverse psychology and still cant hardly get anything out of him.
the best thing to do is work it into the conversation during an unrelated event.
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Taking notes cause this is my sons problem too! Lawd!! Why the hell is it so hard!
@User yes they are! I had to make a visit to her school this past Friday. Her teacher text me saying she has had a busy morning and she is only in Kindergarten
those middle children be
they dont have the luxury of being the oldest or the youngest so they just be the most turnt uppest.
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This is one of my brothers.
I got a child that TRIES it daily. Spankings don’t work. I make him do burpees, jumping jacks, stairs, and write. My eldest, if you say boo: :cries: I’m all for using your hand, hubby yoking up the boy, but that right there not cool. Folks taking switches to the game. Folks saying its a difference in knocking your girlfriend out and this. You’re right, when Jsnay came to, she could have defended herself and kied him. What’s a four year old home do?
Y’all talmbout middle children, What’s wrong with my only child then?
That boy just can’t get right for nothing. No matter how much we take away he just REFUSES to do right. 
When North Join the Wu Tang Clan ?
@Zooe, Not Lucas is it?
Why these kids be playing with the daddies in the miltary? 
My hubby yokes mine up too. 
Her teacher text me saying she has had a busy morning and she is only in Kindergarten
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Hearts- honey,Lucas is a whole mother beast
that boy was in the fridge the other day taking eggs out throwing them. My 7.5 year is the one who pushes every button twice. I got to hold hubby back. THATS when he get scared.
in the fridge the other day taking eggs out throwing them.
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“my name is luca(s), I live on the second floor…..”
Hearts- honey,Lucas is a whole mother beast that boy was in the fridge the other day taking eggs out throwing them
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I can’t turn my back for a second. He get pinches and time out. He strong too. He will wrap his arms around his brother and take him down. I pray daily this is just a stage.
He will wrap his arms around his brother and take him down. I pray daily this is just a stage
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Nakeya_J or Keke thanks to Unshake says:
those middle children be
they dont have the luxury of being the oldest or the youngest so they just be the most turnt uppest.
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This is one of my brothers.
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My middle is my son and he is the opposite. He is the most calm of them all! BUT THAT MFKING BABAY!!! I HAVE TO WATCH LIKE A HAWK WITH PRESCRIPTION STRENGTH NIGHT VISION BINOCULARS! EEEWWW SHE SNEAKAY!!!
OHH GOOD MONDAY MORNING YALL
User- that pix a year old, still look innocent
he woke up one day on 100. So not used to this stage. He jump off the bookshelf, sofa, anything. No fear. He was holding himself up on the monkey bars one day. I can’t deal 
<<< is a middle child and got and still can GET my azz monkey stomped at ANY moment. I was a bad arse kid.
@Dub, We already know Mama Dub don’t play with y’all asses!
My middle is my son and he is the opposite. He is the most calm of them all
The description above is me. No for real TRUE STORY BRO. I am and always was the peace maker. My older sis is the FOH 
type. My mom said her and Taken3 are like twins. In personality and appearance. So for me this is an anomaly. But on a side note MIDDLE KIDS ARE DA BEST 
I gotta represent for my little gangsta baby just on principle 
He gone communicate like his diddy? :wails:
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I am the middle child
@User So you saying my son not gone become a great communicator magically by me talking to him and praying on it?
Rib of Chan says:
<<< is a middle child and got and still can GET my azz monkey stomped at ANY moment. I was a bad arse kid.
September 15, 2014 at 9:22 am
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Your mom must came from the same school of whoopanazz academy as my mom! It didn't matter what child you were we all caught it.
User- that pix a year old, still look innocent he woke up one day on 100. So not used to this stage. He jump off the bookshelf, sofa, anything. No fear. He was holding himself up on the monkey bars one day. I can’t deal
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my son went thru that. he used to want new toys just to break them.
I put him in every sport known to man. he plays or has played Squash, Track & Field, Tball, soccer, basketball, and this summer he played some ish I never heard of called ga-ga 
I had to tire his ass out.
@Taken, Which taken was it that popped a squat in the middle of the floor?
@Taken, Which taken was it that popped a squat in the middle of the floor?
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<—MisTaken: My shoulders too big to box with God. GET.INTO.IT
says:
My middle is my son and he is the opposite. He is the most calm of them all
The description above is me. No for real TRUE STORY BRO. I am and always was the peace maker. My older sis is the FOH 
type. My mom said her and Taken3 are like twins. In personality and appearance. So for me this is an anomaly. But on a side note MIDDLE KIDS ARE DA BEST 
I gotta represent for my little gangsta baby just on principle 
He gone communicate like his diddy? :wails:
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I am the middle child
@User So you saying my son not gone become a great communicator magically by me talking to him and praying on it?
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He is also my funniest kid! This dude can make me laugh even when Im at my maddest… He say and do stuff that make you just quit…
User So you saying my son not gone become a great communicator magically by me talking to him and praying on it? He gone communicate like his diddy?
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Im saying I woulndt bet the farm on it.
put him on the debate team when he is old enough. I used to read thru my son’s school journal for clues and then leave notes in response
I used to read thru my son’s school journal for clues and then leave notes in response
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Jots this down.
My son just refuses to open up. His answer to the things he does is always IDK 
At least y’all sons don’t think he is your only friend/ dad/ husband/ parole officer. That boy be on me!!!!
Can we Please
get a Kanye post about him blacking on the kid in the wheelchair 
Please !
User Friendly says:
User- that pix a year old, still look innocent he woke up one day on 100. So not used to this stage. He jump off the bookshelf, sofa, anything. No fear. He was holding himself up on the monkey bars one day. I can’t deal
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my son went thru that. he used to want new toys just to break them.
I put him in every sport known to man. he plays or has played Squash, Track & Field, Tball, soccer, basketball, and this summer he played some ish I never heard of called ga-ga 
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Now my son was like that too! He was good but busy all day long! To the point I had to start giving him pediasure because he would burn through his food! He was almost 3 and only 25pounds.
Morning and chit.
@wasting Kanye did what now?! Smdh. Does anyone in his camp tell him he looks crazy!? I’m thinking he does not. Smh.
@Keya, pssshhhh!!!! Don’t let me try to leave the house and not tell him where I’m going, what I’m doing, who imma be with, and what time I’m coming back. That boy will :stop: me in my damn tracks. Then call me every hour on the hour asking when I’m coming back.
I swear he my husband instead of his dad. 
@Keya, pssshhhh!!!! Don’t let me try to leave the house and not tell him where I’m going, what I’m doing, who imma be with, and what time I’m coming back. That boy will :stop: me in my damn tracks. Then call me every hour on the hour asking when I’m coming back.
I swear he my husband instead of his dad. 
@Hearts My oldest daughter is the same way, I have went rounds with her asking why she has done something and I always receive the same answer IDK
Wut- the doc recommended that too. Say he not on the charts. He about 24lbs and 2.5
@Wasting, I was
for this too!! I don’t even see how this dude stil has a career with all his foolishness. One person had to hold up their prosthetic leg for him to believe he was really handicap. 
@Wasting, I was
for this too!! I don’t even see how this dude stil has a career with all his foolishness. One person had to hold up their prosthetic leg for him to believe he was really handicap. 
My daughter is 5 and only 38lbs but she will
eat you out of house and home!
Kanye West is known for his concert antics and demanding behavior — but the two combined in the most unfortunate way at his recent arena concert in Sydney. In the middle of his show, West apparently refused to continue singing until every single audience member stood up and pointed out two people specifically. One of whom was in a wheelchair.
As the insufferably awkward video below shows, it’s a classic “EVERYBODY GET ON YOUR FEET” concert moment. Except most artists just start playing the song after 30 seconds or so, regardless of who’s sitting down.
Not Kanye West. “Y’all having a good time so far?” West says at one point while performing at Qantas Credit Union Arena on Friday. “I decided I can’t do this song — I can’t do the rest of this show until everybody stands up.”
The camera pans around the arena, showing everybody screaming and cheering, motioning for others to stand. The music remains at a standstill as West reiterates that, no, really, he’s not going to start singing again until everyone is on their feet.
Then, West walks over to a lower section to his right and points out someone. “Is he in a wheelchair?” he asks. The crowd starts booing. The awkwardness continues as the arena starts chanting “Stand up! Stand up! Stand up!”
West continues to stand there, looking in their direction with the microphone. “There’s literally two people left,” he says. “There’s two people left. They don’t want to stand up.”
More boos. “This is the longest I’ve had to wait to do a song,” West says, sounding annoyed. “It’s unbelievable.”
Then, sensing something might be up, West adds, “Now, if he is in a wheelchair, it’s fine.” He asks: “Is he in a wheelchair right there?” pointing over to the offending section.
“YES!” screams the entire section of people. West asks a couple more times before he’s finally satisfied. The Daily Mail Australia reports that West eventually sent over his bodyguard to check whether the fan was actually wheelchair-bound.
“Okay,” West says, launching into his song “Good Life” as the audience screams and cheers along.
Social media, of course, blew up after the incident — though the Daily Mail reminds everyone that one time, West gifted his microphone to a fan in a wheelchair, just because.
@MrsJB, don’t that just make you want to knock fire from her?
I hate when my son does that!
@hearts and now with the new baby, its what are you doing? Are you supposed to do that? Can you eat that? Can you go there? Last night he asked me how the bottle warmer worked. I told him, he balled up his face and “you can’t use sink water to warm up her bottles! She needs bottled water” me–>
My kids eat like crazy. Always hungry. Always.
One person had to hold up their prosthetic leg for him to believe he was really handicap
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say what nah?
and who watched that fool who lived in a shoe and had so many kids he didnt know what to do
on Iyanla’s show? the mothers were completely batshyt crazy too.
UF-.missed it. Recap please in
So Kanye stopped a show and embrassed someone because they could not stand up!? The fugg is wrong with dude!? You need attention that bad!? Omg. He needs his life fixed.
lovezoe says:
Wut- the doc recommended that too. Say he not on the charts. He about 24lbs and 2.5
He is like my son then! I had to give him one or two a day. He still tall and lanky to this day though 
He burns through food like his dad I guess.
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“you can’t use sink water to warm up her bottles! She needs bottled water”
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Juli said she aint coming out here till they roll out the red carpet for her and put some good Evian in her bottle warmer
fugg you thought, Keya?
@Hearts, Yes
Now I just cut her off before she can even say it, I tell her she better think about what she needs to say and “IDK” is not a answer I want to hear!
@user then she is never coming out. The hell I look like buying bottled water to warm the bottle in!!!! How about no. Him and his sister better go on some place.
Then, West walks over to a lower section to his right and points out someone. “Is he in a wheelchair?” he asks. The crowd starts booing. The awkwardness continues as the arena starts chanting “Stand up! Stand up! Stand up!”
I am not a fan of corporal punishment at all. Most of the criminals I know have been spanked so I know it’s not an effective child rearing method and I personally think it breeds violence in the child. That being said, Adrian was doing what he knows to do. If he is charged with a crime thousands upon thousands more parents will be charged also because these kids gonna start telling more than they already do. Instead of undermining the parents authority with criminal charges I think they need to be taught what is proper discipline because they really just don’t know.
Sorry Keya
Our email is down here on the plantation.
There is video of Kanye screaming on a dude at a show to stand up. Dude in a wheelchair