ATLANTA — The starting point guard for a Georgia university women’s basketball team is one of five people indicted on charges including murder in the July killing of a man who was found shot to death in the parking deck of an Atlanta apartment complex.

Kennesaw State University’s Kamiyah Street, 20, turned herself in Thursday, according to Fulton County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Tracy Flanagan.

The university’s athletic department said in a statement that once it found out about her arrest Thursday, Street was “suspended indefinitely” from all team and athletic activities.

Street remained in the Fulton County jail Monday without bond. Online court records did not list an attorney who could comment on her behalf. Her arraignment was set for Dec. 13.

‘I don’t think John Terry is a racist, I think he said a racist thing’: Kieron Dyer DEFENDS ex-Chelsea captain over his controversial racism row with QPR team-mate Anton Ferdinand … and admits he’s heard racist remarks from white players ‘hundreds of times’

• John Terry and Anton Ferdinand clashed during a match back in October 2011
• Terry was cleared of racial abuse in court but charged and fined by The FA
• Kieron Dyer, a team-mate of Ferdinand’s in 2011, reflected on the incident 

By Jack Bezants for MailOnline

Published: 06:31 EDT, 23 June 2020 | Updated: 07:53 EDT, 23 June 2020

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REVEALED: England and Chelsea star Callum Hudson-Odoi, 19, was arrested on suspicion of rape after a model he met online called police and said she was attacked at his Battersea apartment

• Chelsea star Callum Hudson-Odoi was arrested on suspicion of rape in the early hours of Sunday
• A model he met online and invited to his home had called police  
• The Metropolitan Police confirmed a woman went to hospital and a man was arrested 
• Hudson-Odoi was released on bail on Monday morning and has not made any formal comment but a friend said he denied any wrongdoing

By Sami Mokbel for the Daily Mail and MailOnline Reporter

Published: 16:50 EDT, 17 May 2020 | Updated: 18:12 EDT, 18 May 2020

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Drew Brees directly responded to President Trump’s criticism of the NFL star on Friday – a day after the Saints quarterback apologized for saying that players who knelt during the national anthem were disrespecting the flag.

On Instagram, Brees on Friday posted a graphic showing a gray box with the words ‘To President Trump’ written in the middle.

The caption read: ‘Through my ongoing conversations with friends, teammates, and leaders in the black community, I realize this is not an issue about the American flag.

‘It has never been. We can no longer use the flag to turn people away or distract them from the real issues that face our black communities.

‘We did this back in 2017, and regretfully I brought it back with my comments this week.

‘We must stop talking about the flag and shift our attention to the real issues of systemic racial injustice, economic oppression, police brutality, and judicial & prison reform.

‘We are at a critical juncture in our nation’s history! If not now, then when?

‘We as a white community need to listen and learn from the pain and suffering of our black communities.

‘We must acknowledge the problems, identify the solutions, and then put this into action.

‘The black community cannot do it alone. This will require all of us.’

Earlier on Friday, Trump called out Brees for backing down from his earlier criticism on Wednesday, when the NFL star was quoted as saying that he didn’t agree with protesters who knelt during the national anthem.

Brees apologized on Thursday for comments he made one day earlier that he described as ‘insensitive and completely missed the mark.’ 

He said on Wednesday that he ‘will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country’ while reiterating his objection to NFL players who kneel during the national anthem.

Brees, who had previously disagreed with the protests started by Colin Kaepernick, repeated his opposition to kneeling during the national anthem in an interview with Yahoo Finance on Wednesday. 

Numerous black athletes, including NBA star LeBron James, expressed outrage at Brees. 

Several of Brees’ New Orleans teammates were among the NFL players who were irate.

The biting backlash that followed prompted the Saints’ star quarterback to issue a several apologies on Thursday, first writing that he ‘missed the mark’ and then promising to ‘do better’ in his self-made video.

In the apology video, Brees also referenced the recent killing of Ahmad Arbery, the black man who was shot to death by a former cop and his son while he was jogging in Georgia.

‘I wish I would have laid out what was on my heart in regards to the George Floyd murder, Ahmaud Arbery, the years and years of social injustice, police brutality and the need for so much reform and change in regards to legislation and so many other things to bring equality to our black communities,’ Brees said.

‘I am sorry and I will do better and I will be part of the solution and I am your ally.’

Trump, though, said on his Twitter account that he doesn’t think Brees needed to issue an apology.

‘I am a big fan of Drew Brees. I think he’s truly one of the greatest quarterbacks, but he should not have taken back his original stance on honoring our magnificent American Flag. OLD GLORY is to be revered, cherished, and flown high. …

‘We should be standing up straight and tall, ideally with a salute, or a hand on heart.

‘There are other things you can protest, but not our Great American Flag – NO KNEELING!’

Several of Brees’ teammates, including Demario Davis, Cameron Jordan, and Michael Thomas, took to social media and praised the quarterback for his apology. 

‘A big part of leadership is admitting when you are wrong, and correcting your mistake,’ Davis tweeted. 

‘A model that All of America can follow, admit the wrong done to the black community, fix the issues and WE ALL move forward together. 

‘Let’s all stand together now and find solutions.’

Jordan responded to Davis, tweeting: ‘Only through open dialogue & open hearts can we expand our comprehension and only in courage can we create positive change!’

Thomas, a wide receiver who catches passes from Brees, tweeted: ‘My QB!’

He added an emoji showing a flexed bicep muscle. 

Trump’s comments came hours before NFL commissioner Roger Goodell apologized and said that the league was wrong for not listening to players and their concerns about social justice and racism.

Social injustice has been a major source of tension in the NFL since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling before games during the 2016 season to bring attention to police brutality. 

Kaepernick hasn’t played in an NFL game since that year.

The NFL’s relationship with black players is under scrutiny in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. 

A group of players requested the NFL take strong action on Thursday in a video directed at Goodell and other NFL officials.

Floyd, a black man, died on May 25 after white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes in an incident caught on cell phones. 

Chauvin was charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

Three other officers – Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao – were arrested and charged with aiding and abetting both a second-degree murder and a second-degree manslaughter.   

President Donald Trump is wading back into the debate over NFL player protests by condemning Drew Brees’s recent apology for calling the peaceful demonstrations ‘disrespectful’ to the military. 

‘I am a big fan of Drew Brees,’ Trump tweeted Friday. ‘I think he’s truly one of the greatest quarterbacks, but he should not have taken back his original stance on honoring our magnificent American Flag. OLD GLORY is to be revered, cherished, and flown high.

‘We should be standing up straight and tall, ideally with a salute, or a hand on heart. There are other things you can protest, but not our Great American Flag – NO KNEELING!’

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The controversy has reignited in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man whose death has sparked protests around the country.  In a video of the violent arrest that went viral, Floyd is seen screaming that he can’t breath before ultimately passing out. He was later declared dead at a local hospital.

Brees, who had previously disagreed with the protests, repeated his opposition to kneeling during the national anthem in an interview with Yahoo Finance on Wednesday.

The biting backlash that followed prompted the Saints’ star quarterback to issue a several apologies on Thursday, first writing that he ‘missed the mark’ and then promising to ‘do better’ in his self-made video.

In the apology video, Brees also referenced the recent killing of Ahmad Arbery, the black man who was shot to death by a former cop and his son while he was jogging in Georgia.

‘I wish I would have laid out what was on my heart in regards to the George Floyd murder, Ahmaud Arbery, the years and years of social injustice, police brutality and the need for so much reform and change in regards to legislation and so many other things to bring equality to our black communities,’ Brees said.

‘I am sorry and I will do better and I will be part of the solution and I am your ally.’

When Brees expressed his position on the anthem three years ago, he was one of many voices in a crowded conversation about Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players raising awareness about racist police brutality by refusing to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner.

But when he repeated it Wednesday, pointing to his World War II veteran grandfathers to explain his objection, the Saints quarterback learned in humbling fashion how times have changed.

The criticism of the peaceful protests sparked an immediate backlash, led by Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James.

James not only thought Brees misinterpreted the protests, but strongly criticized his references to military veterans in his family. To James, protesting during the anthem is not disrespectful to the military, flag, or country.  

‘WOW MAN!!’ James tweeted. ‘Is it still surprising at this point. (sic) Sure isn’t!

‘You literally still don’t understand why Kap was kneeling on one knee?? Has absolute nothing to do with the disrespect of [the flag] and our soldiers (men and women) who keep our land free. My father-in-law was one of those men who fought as well for this country. I asked him question about it and thank him all the time for his commitment. He never found Kap peaceful protest offensive because he and I both know what’s right is right and what’s wrong is wrong!’ 

Brees’s comments were also blasted by several members of the New Orleans Saints — most notably record-setting wide receiver Michael Thomas, Brees’s favorite target, and veteran safety Malcolm Thomas, who told Brees to ‘shut the f*** up’ in his own social media video.

Some Saints fans were seen burning his replica jersey, while other demonstrators in New Orleans could be heard chanting ‘f*** Drew Brees.’

Thomas, linebacker Demario Davis, and some other Saints players have since accepted Brees’s apology.

‘One of my brothers made a public statement yesterday that I disagreed with,’ Thomas wrote on Twitter. ‘He apologized & I accept it because that’s what we are taught to do as Christians. Now back to the movement! #GeorgeFloyd.’

Conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham did defend Brees, and has since been ridiculed for her apparent hypocrisy after telling James and Kevin Durant to ‘shut up and dribble’ in 2018 when they criticized Trump.

Many, including Trump, previously slammed NFL players’ peaceful demonstrations as being disrespectful to the military.   

Vice president Mike Pence walked out of a 49ers-Indianapolis Colts game in October of 2017 after Kaepernick’s former teammates kneeled in protest.

Last week, in response to looting and rioting amid the demonstrations, Trump claimed to be ‘an ally of all peaceful protesters’ while Pence has echoed similar statements on social media.

Kaepernick recently offered to pay the legal fees for any of the ‘freedom fighters’ arrested while protesting the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.

‘In fighting for liberation there’s always retaliation,’ Kaepernick wrote on Twitter. ‘We must protect our Freedom Fighters. We started a legal defense initiative to give legal representation to Freedom Fighters in Minneapolis paid for by @yourrightscamp.’

Derek Chauvin, who is seen in the arrest video kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, has been charged with second- and third-degree murder as well as manslaughter.

The other officers — Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng, and Tou Thao — are charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.

Second-degree murder as well as aiding and abetting second-degree murder are both punishable by up to 40 years in prison.   

A shop owner accused of being a key player in an illegal baby formula racket after falling on hard times has burst into tears as she is granted bail after spending a night in the police cells. 

Tram Huynh Bao Phan, 41, was arrested by police at her south-west Sydney shopfront on Tuesday morning after police were tipped off by suspicious local business people.

Phan is accused of on-selling tins of formula at her Bankstown shopfront that a drug addict had allegedly stolen from a Coles supermarket.

The alleged thief Curistos Filippopoulos, 45, took up to $965 a day in baby formula from the franchise’s Clemton Park store, court documents said.

At one point he allegedly stole tins from the shop five days in a row. 

The pair are accused of having an arrangement where the formula was delivered to Phan in shopping bags who then on-sold them to customers. 

Phan was visibly emotional as she was released on bail from the Sydney Police Centre on Wednesday evening and wept as she was reunited with her sister, who posted her $5,000 bail. 

When Daily Mail Australia approached her for a comment, the clearly distraught accused woman could only muster: ‘No, no, no, that’s all fine, thank you’.  

During her bail application, Magistrate George Breton was told Phan had previously run a Vietnamese cake store prior to starting up a shop based around baby formula.

Her business had apparently suffered ‘financial difficulties’ prior to the coronavirus crisis, the court was told.

Magistrate Breton said Phan had made ‘full admissions’ that she had ‘continued to participate in the syndicate’ because of it. 

Phan was charged with knowingly receiving stolen goods and six counts of recklessly dealing with proceeds of crime on Tuesday evening.

Phan’s solicitor, Mai Pham, told the court police had told her client had been ‘very compliant and cooperative’ in their investigations.

‘She is previously married and now separated, so a single mother, with three children, 12, nine and two,’ the solicitor said. 

‘She previously operated a business making cake and selling cake. She’s recently changed to this particular business.’ 

Filippopoulos was charged with 45 offences, including 35 counts of shoplifting, six counts of disposing of stolen property and driving while disqualified. 

When Filippopoulos’ lawyer, Veronica Love, applied for him to get bail, Magistrate George Breton marvelled at how the accused pair believed they could get away with the alleged scam. 

‘It’s a wonder they weren’t stopped in their tracks a long time before today or yesterday,’ Magistrate Breton said during his matter. 

‘They continued to act, naively, probably believing they were never going to be caught.’ 

He described the offence as ‘unsophisticated’ – involving Filippopoulos ‘loading up and walking out’ of Coles. 

He said based on the police facts ‘jail is an appropriate penalty’ for such serious offences.

‘She’s determined of her own volition to engage in the criminal syndicate,’ he said. 

Phan was granted $5,000 bail on conditions including she report to police weekly and surrender her passport.

The court heard Filippopoulos was a drug addict who was enrolled in a methadone program.

He sought bail but it was opposed by police prosecutor Jason Burt and he was remanded in custody.  

Both matters will return to court later this year. 

Police expect to make further arrests, with the court hearing two others were allegedly involved. 

Premier League footballer is accused of ‘gang rape’ at lockdown party by woman who claims her drink was spiked

• Woman says she woke up naked with the footballer lying beside her in bed 
• She claims to recall nothing of the party other than having two drinks 
• Says she received an anonymous call telling her she’d been spiked
• Police, forensics and doctors have interviewed and examined the woman 

By Sebastian Murphy-bates For Mailonline

Published: 04:53 EDT, 24 May 2020 | Updated: 12:10 EDT, 24 May 2020

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Student, 20, who allegedly crashed into young mother in a brutal hit and run before dumping her Honda Accord admits she was high on drugs at the time

• Nakeisha Shaneye Smith, 20, allegedly hit Olivia McKay with her Honda Accord 
• Smith then allegedly drove off, leaving the mother-of-one with a broken leg
• She was charged with grievous bodily harm with intent after police found her 
• Smith appeared in court on Thursday where she admitted: ‘I was on drugs’

By Alana Mazzoni For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 08:26 EDT, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 08:28 EDT, 14 May 2020

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Revealed: How a simple mistake with a text upped the ante in Dean Laidley’s alleged stalking campaign against woman he met on Tinder

• Dean Laidley allegedly sent text messages meant for a friend to his ex-girlfriend  
• He was charged with stalking the woman after he was arrested near her home
• Police leaked pictures of Laidley in custody showing him in a wig and dress
• The former AFL player is accused of breaching AVO ‘100 times’ prior to arrest 
• Reportedly angry she broke off relationship after he bought her an apartment

By Brittany Chain and Wayne Flower For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 01:02 EDT, 12 May 2020 | Updated: 01:53 EDT, 12 May 2020

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AFL great Dean Laidley will by most accounts walk free from jail on Monday into an absolute quagmire of public scrutiny. 

To some degree it will be of his own making. 

But his jailers can take most of the blame. 

Ex-AFL footballers like Laidley are no strangers to Victoria’s court system. 

Hardly a month goes by when a familiar name doesn’t pop up on a court list somewhere across Victoria. 

They are not usually past AFL coaches, but some big names have walked the grimy halls of the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court before Laidley. 

Think Mark ‘Bomber’ Thompson, who got embroiled in a drug scandal that involved a bunch of outlaw bikies. 

Laidley faces seven charges, including one each of stalking, committing an indictable offence while on bail and persistent breach of a family violence order and four other intervention order breaches. 

It’s a newsworthy story in footy mad Melbourne any day of the week and one that would have likely shamed and embarrassed Laidley. 

The North Melbourne premiership player was arrested in St Kilda a week ago.

Who he was allegedly stalking and why will likely be revealed when he brings on an application for bail. 

What was not likely to be included in the remand summary was the fact Laidley had been arrested wearing full drag. 

And the consequences for him may turn out harsher than the many who have walked in his troubled footsteps. 

Laidley had been doing well coaching Maribyrnong Park at the Essendon District league and had big plans for his club.

During a podcast in the days before his arrest, he was adament his wild days were well behind him. 

‘I made sure that they (semi-professional players) didn’t have the opinion or view of this psycho who used to coach in the AFL, because I was way past that,’ he said.

‘Out of my 32 years of senior professional football, I reckon last year was probably in the top five or six years that I had … I just enjoyed it so much.

‘It was a great playing group, very coachable, probably too coachable and too nice, so we have a bit of work to do there.’

The fact the football world seemed to know Laidley was a crossdresser for years could indicate he was comfortable in those close to him knowing about it. 

Premiership teammate Corey McKernan said the treatment of Laidley could be considered a test case for the AFL’s support of the LGBTI community. 

One of Australia’s most influential football reporters for more than two decades  revealed this week he knew Laidley had been dressing in women’s clothes for up to 12 years. 

Mike Sheahan rightly said Laidley’s lifestyle choices were not newsworthy. 

Until they became newsworthy, his old mate Sam Newman said.

‘His situation is sad but the issue about whether he was a cross dresser 10 or 12 years ago – he’s not breaking any law. If he’s not breaking any law, why would you write about it? And how is it in the public interest?’ Sheehan said. 

Two senior constables have been suspended over the leaked pictures of the 53-year-old wearing a dress and wig inside a police station interview room.

The photos may have been sent to more than 100 police officers by group chats on social media platforms such as WhatsApp.

The images were splashed across the front pages of the Herald Sun and the West Australian on the same day a Victorian police officer was to be buried. 

It was terrible timing and force command was absolutely livid. 

Deputy Police Commissioner Shane Patton labelled the leak ‘appalling’. 

He could barely contain his anger. 

‘I am appalled an employee of Victoria Police has taken these photographs,’ Mr Patton said.

‘It is unacceptable conduct. It is appalling conduct and there is no place for it in our organisation.

‘This is a breach of privacy, a breach of human rights and we are taking the matter extremely seriously.’

Police Minister Lisa Neville practically said the person who had leaked the photos from inside the police station was an ‘idiot’.

‘It was an idiotic thing to do,’ she told reporters.

The suspended officers were expected to be charged with accessing police information without authorisation.

But Laidley’s very private life as a cross dresser was no-more. 

His lawyer Dee Giannopoulos told a Melbourne court the ex-footy star was suffering from a psychiatric illness.

AFL coaching great Mick Malthouse – who coached Laidley as a player at West Coast after arriving at the club in 1990 – said he knew Laidley was struggling. 

‘He was quite ill there at one stage,’ Malthouse said. 

‘I don’t know exactly what it was but he was in immense pain and I remember him saying that he was on these painkillers and it was quite debilitating.’

Malthouse claimed his former colleague was under pressure at home ‘both physically and mentally’.

‘The pressure he was under at home with one of his children and the fact he was trying to make ends meet and he had this disease, I wouldn’t have thought that would have done the mind any good at all,’ Malthouse said.

‘It grabs hold of you, coaching, it’s more relentless and it’s more demanding.

‘You’ve got to have a really good partner, good family and an understanding family otherwise you’re trying to … please those at home, those at the football club, those in the media.’

The AFL Coaches Association and North Melbourne have said they will try to help Laidley, but Malthouse said there are ‘limited resources’ within the association to support coaches. 

While Laidley was known for his colourful personality off-field, he was also clinging to deep seeded torment dating back to his coaching days. 

In 2006, he had sought counselling after being ‘haunted’ by the image of a fan he clashed with during a game who later took his own life. 

The man, a Kangaroos member in his late 30s, was hit by a train at Seaford on the Frankston line almost 14 years ago to the month. 

Laidley twice had words with the Kangaroos fan as he walked through the crowd to address his players during a clash with St Kilda. 

Daily Mail Australia revealed this week Laidley was attempting to offload his trendy Moonee Ponds apartment mid last month as his life spiralled out of control. 

He had also been actively promoting his Balinese villa, asking friends to share a page dedicated to it in the hope he could rent it out. 

A source told Daily Mail Australia Laidley’s collapse into despair had been on public display about the Moonee Ponds area in recent months before the COVID-19 lockdown. 

A disheveled Laidley – or ‘Tunnel’ as he is well known – had been seen getting about town barefooted and disheveled. 

But if Laidley is in fact hard up for money, he may soon be rolling in cash. 

Robinson Gill lawyer Jeremy King said Victoria Police was at risk of being sued over the incident.

‘There’s certainly an argument for civil litigation against Victoria Police,’ Mr King told The Age on Tuesday.

‘It’s clearly a breach of confidential information and it’s done with reckless indifference and it’s clearly going to cause harm and damage.’

It is illegal for police to use or disclose police information without reasonable excuse and the Laidley case was ‘right up there’ among the worst examples, Mr King said.

‘It’s got to be one of the most shocking breaches of privacy I’ve seen in recent memory,’ he said. 

Victoria Police has faced some significant payouts in recent years over some extremely serious bungles. 

Dale Ewins and Zita Sukys won a multimillion-dollar settlement last year more than two years after officers stormed the Inflation nightclub on King Street and shot them. 

Victoria Police is also facing a massive lawsuit by Melbourne man Faruk Orman, whose murder conviction was overturned.

Orman’s conviction for the murder of Victor Peirce was quashed last year over revelations police informer and gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo had tainted his case.

He had spent 12 years in jail. 

While Laidley’s fate remains unclear, Sheehan summed it up well in his podcast this week. 

‘It’s sad isn’t it … it’s not about being a cross dresser, he’s facing serious criminal charges,’ he said.