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Denver wants case against Marlon Wayans stemming from luggage dispute dismissed_我的网站

一 |     DENVER -- Denver prosecutors asked a judge on Friday to dismiss a case against Marlon Wayans stemming from a luggage dispute with an airline employee who the actor and comedian said targeted him because of his race. The city attorney's office's request comes a day after Wayans, who is Black, asked for the case to be dismissed and accused prosecutors of perpetuating the discrimination he faced by continuing with the case. Assistant City Attorney Katie Conner did not directly explain why prosecutors wanted the case dismissed, but she suggested that information gathered by Wayans' lawyers about white passengers being allowed to violate United Airlines' luggage limit played a role. One of Wayans' lawyers, David M. Beller, said a judge has granted the request. He applauded the city's decision.“Our community does not need one more innocent Black man wrongfully accused and wrongfully convicted," Beller said. "I hope this inspires everyone to be more aware of their own implicit and explicit bias." A spokesperson for the city attorney's office did not return an email seeking comment. Wayans was cited for disturbing the peace, a municipal violation, in June, police said. According to Wayans’ motion to dismiss the case, a United Airlines gate agent told him he could not get on a flight to Kansas City with three bags. The gate agent tried to physically block Wayans from getting on the flight after he consolidated his luggage into two bags to conform with airline policy, according to the filing. Wayans boarded anyway and was later asked to get off the plane before it departed.While Wayans was working to rearrange his luggage, the gate agent kept allowing white passengers with three bags to board the flight, according to the court filing, which included still photos from surveillance video of white passengers with yellow arrows pointing to each of their bags. About 140 people boarded the flight, the filing said, many with three bags and oversized bags that violated the airline’s policy.According to statements recorded on police body camera and cited in the filing, the gate agent told officers that Wayans “shoved,” “pushed” or “elbowed” him as the comedian boarded the plane, which Wayans’ lawyers said was a lie. They say Wayans may have brushed shoulders with the agent as he boarded. In the filing to dismiss the case, Conner said Wayans “brushed past” the gate agent to get on the plane.The police officers who investigated were doubtful that any crime had been committed, according to Wayans' filing, but the gate agent asked that charges be pursued.In the city's motion to dismiss the case, Conner noted that she had reviewed the information gathered by Wayans' lawyers and met with the gate agent on Thursday to go over each photo included in Wayans' filing. “As a result of information gathered during that interview, it is the undersigned city attorney’s determination that, while probable cause existed at the time of the issuance of the complaint against Mr. Wayans, it is not in the interests of justice to proceed in this case,” Conner said.。

二 |     Jada Pinkett Smith is getting candid about her marriage with husband Will Smith.The "Girls Trip" actress, 52, revealed in a new interview with People that she and Smith, 55, are separated -- and have been for years.Pinkett Smith explained that she and Smith had been separated for six years prior to the 2022 Academy Awards -- the night of the infamous Chris Rock slap."We're still figuring it out," she told the magazine of their marriage. "We've been doing some really heavy-duty work together. We just got deep love for each other and we are going to figure out what that looks like for us."People also shared an exclusive excerpt from her forthcoming book, "Worthy," out Oct. 17, in which Pinkett Smith said she was at first "unclear" why Smith was "so upset" about comedian Rock's joke at her expense at the 2022 Oscars."We had been living separate lives and were there as family, not as husband and wife," she wrote. "But when I hear Will yell 'wife' in the chaos of the moment, an internal shift of 'Oh s--- ... I am his wife!' happens instantly."Of the slap, which resulted in Smith -- who won the award for best actor that night -- resigning from the academy and receiving a 10-year ban from the Oscars, Pinkett Smith told People, "I thought, 'This is a skit.'""I was like, 'There's no way that Will hit him,'" she recalled thinking. "It wasn't until Will started to walk back to his chair that I even realized it wasn't a skit."Pinkett Smith said her first words to her husband after the show were, "Are you OK?" and she decided to she was "going to be by his side, but also allow him to have to figure this out for himself."The Hollywood couple were married on New Year's Eve in 1997 and share three children: son Jaden, daughter Willow, and Smith's son Trey -- whom Pinkett Smith calls her "bonus son" -- from his marriage to Sheree Zampino.As she and Smith navigate their marriage, the "A Different World" alum said she is leaning on her children, saying, "They've taught me a deep sense of self-acceptance.""They love every part of me," she added, praising the "level of love, unconditional love that they have for me and their dad."。

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