Duke player allegedly target of racial slur during BYU volleyball game

A Duke University women's volleyball player was allegedly harassed by a fan with a racial slur while playing in a game against Brigham Young University in Utah on Friday, according to BYU.

The fan, who was not a student, was sitting in the BYU student section, and was identified by Duke during the game, according to BYU. The fan has since been banned from all BYU athletic venues.

"To say we are extremely disheartened in the actions of a small number of fans in last night's volleyball game in the Smith Fieldhouse between BYU and Duke is not strong enough language," BYU said in a statement. "We will not tolerate behavior of this kind. Specifically, the use of a racial slur at any of our athletic events is absolutely unacceptable and BYU Athletics holds a zero-tolerance approach to this behavior. We wholeheartedly apologize to Duke University and especially its student-athletes competing last night for what they experienced."

Rachel Richardson, Outside Hitter for Duke University Women's Volleyball is pictured in an official team roster portrait for the 2022 season. goduke.com

Rachel Richardson, who is Black, is a sophomore at Duke and was the target of the alleged racial slurs. Richardson heard the slur "every time she served," according to former Texas county prosecutor Lesa Pamplin, who is running for county judge and said Richardson is her goddaughter in a tweet posted on Saturday.

"She was threatened by a white male that told her to watch her back going to the team bus. A police officer had to be put by their bench," Pamplin tweeted. "Not one freaking adult did anything to protect her."

Lesa Pamplin poses with her goddaughter Rachel Richardson in an image taken during the Duke Invitational Volleyball tournament in 2021. Lesa Pamplin

In a statement posted on Twitter Sunday, Richardson said officials and BYU coaching staff were aware of what was happening during the game but she said they failed to stop the fan and end the behavior.

"This is not the first time this has happened in college athletics and sadly it likely will not be the last time," Richardson said.

But she said that after game, Tom Holmoe, athletic director for BYU, was “quick to act in a very respectful and genuine matter,” and said that he is taking steps to better educate his staff and student-athletes on ways to handle inappropriate behavior from fans in the future.

"This is an opportunity to dig deep into closed cultures which tolerate amoral racist acts, such as those exhibited Friday night, and change them for the better," Richardson said Sunday. "It is not enough to indicate that you are not racist, instead you must demonstrate that you are anti-racist."

Holmoe said he met with Richardson and her coach to discuss what had happened, and while addressing fans at a match Saturday night said "As children of God, we are responsible. It's our mission to love one another and treat everybody with respect. And that didn't happen. We fell very short. We didn't live up to our best."

Nina King, Duke University Vice President & Director of Athletics said Friday's alleged incident is unacceptable and all players should be able to compete in a safe environment.

"Duke student-athletes should always have the opportunity to compete in an inclusive, anti-racist environment which promotes equality and fair play," King said in a statement on Saturday.

The Smith Fieldhouse at Brigham Young University has record setting attendance during a BYU vs Duke match in an image posted by BYU Women's Volleyball, Provo, Utah, Aug. 26, 2022.

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Duke Athletics has been in contact with its student-athletes at the tournament, said King, and will "continue to support them in every way possible and look forward to connecting further upon their return from Provo."

BYU and Duke were competing in the doTERRA Classic on Friday and Saturday, which was a four-team round robin tournament in Provo that also included Rider and Washington State University.

Duke's match against Rider on Saturday was moved to a different location to "afford both teams the safest atmosphere for competition," King said. Attendance was limited to staff and family, BYU Volleyball said on Twitter.

"On behalf of my African American teammates and I, we do not want to receive pity or to be looked at as helpless," Richardson said. "We do not feel as though we are victims of some tragic event. We are proud to be young African American women; we are proud to be Duke student-athletes, and we are proud to stand up against racism."

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Woman allegedly kills grandmother, buries body in garden then goes on spending spree with her cards

A woman went on a shopping spree with her alleged victim's Sassa cards.

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• A Gauteng woman is accused of killing her grandmother.
• The woman allegedly set the elderly woman's body alight and buried her in the yard. 
• She then used her slain relative's bank and Sassa cards after reporting her missing. 

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A 31-year-old Gauteng woman is accused of single-handedly killing her grandmother, setting her body alight, digging a hole and burying her in the yard in December 2019. The woman then covered the grave with a steel box before using the old woman's bank and South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) cards. This is according to the information contained in an indictment in the case against 31-year-old Rachael Tshabalala, who is currently on trial in the Gauteng High Court sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court. Tshabalala was apparently living with her grandmother, Nomalanga Hilda Tshabalala, in Emndeni, Soweto.  They were last seen together on 14 December 2019 - but, five days later, Tshabalala reported her grandmother missing.  READ | Multiple murders: 664 people killed in 284 incidents between April, June In September 2020, Tshabalala was arrested and charged with defrauding Sassa. She was caught using her grandmother's card. During the time that Nomalanga had gone missing, her family rented out the house to tenants.  The truth about what happened to the old woman only came to light in September 2021, a year after Tshabalala was arrested on fraud charges.  How safe is your neighbourhood? Find out by using News24's CrimeCheck While Tshabalala was in prison, a tenant, who was cleaning the yard, found the old woman's remains and contacted the police.   "The remains of the deceased were found, and her identity was established by DNA profiling. The cause of death is unknown at this stage," claims the indictment. Tshabalala is facing charges of murder, theft, fraud, defeating the ends of justice as well as statutory perjury.

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Mob allegedly harasses foreign tourists in federal capital on Independence Day

Blurred image showing foreigners at the site of the incident. — Screengrab via Twitter/ @Islamabadviews

ISLAMABAD: In a video doing rounds on social media, three foreigners — including two women and a man — can be seen being harassed by a mob in Shakarparian, a tourist spot in the federal capital on Independence Day.

According to the information shared by Islamabad’s police, the incident occurred at the Pakistan Monument. No complaints to investigate the incident were received by the police.

"No one complained to the administration present at the site of the incident", the police said.

A Twitter page — Islamabad Updates — which posts about the city’s various issues, shared videos of the disturbing incident where the two women and a man accompanying them could be seen being mobbed and harassed by over a dozen men around them.

The tourists appear visibly distressed and uncomfortable following the mob’s undue attention.

"Boys misbehaving with foreign tourists on the occasion of #Pakistan's #IndependenceDay in Shakarparian, #Islamabad. Authorities must identify and punish the culprits," the video caption said.

Netizens have strongly reacted to the videos, questioning concerned authorities to initiate an investigation and take action against the men involved in the tourists’ harassment.

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Fetty Wap arrested and his $500,000 bond revoked after allegedly wielding a gun during a Facetime video call

Fetty Wap was indicted and arrested in October along with five others on a drug trafficking conspiracy charge.

He pleaded not guilty and was released on $500,000 bond as he awaited trial, and one of the conditions listed in the release order stated that he "must not possess a firearm, destructive device, or other weapon." Another said that he "must not violate any federal, state or local law."

Prosecutors accuse Fetty Wap, whose legal name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, of violating those conditions during a December 11 FaceTime call in which he was allegedly seen holding a gun and threatening to kill an unnamed man, according to an affidavit supporting revocation filed in the Eastern District Court of New York.

New York Magistrate Judge Steven Locke revoked the rapper's bond following his Monday arrest in New Jersey, according to John Marzulli, spokesperson for the Eastern District of New York.

In a video recording of the call, Fetty Wap allegedly pointed the gun toward him over the phone, the affidavit said. The man is identified as John Doe in the document.

"The defendant then says to John Doe 'Imma kill you and everybody you with,'" according to the document.

The affidavit alleges that the rapper threatened the man several times during the call.

CNN has reached out to an attorney for Fetty Wap for comment.

CNN's Elizabeth Wolfe contributed to this report.

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