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Celebrities join riot frontline: Halsey, Emily Ratajkowski and Paris Jackson
Celebrities have joined the frontline of the riots, with Halsey, and Paris Jackson, leaving their lives of luxury to take part in George Floyd protests.
Singers Halsey and Yungblud were spotted at demonstrations in Los Angeles on Saturday. The pair were wearing masks and held signs saying, 'Black Lives Matter,' as they chanted with others.
Model Emily Ratajkowski was also posting regular Instagram updates from the protests in LA. 'DISMANTLE POWER STRUCTURES OF OPPRESSION #defundthepolice #justiceforgeorgefloyd #blacklivesmatter,' she wrote on her slideshow.
Paris Jackson was also out in , along with Mad Max star Courtney Eaton, her rumored ex-boyfriend Ross Lynch and '' Jeremy Meeks.
Meanwhile many other celebrities were fighting for justice on social media, including Billie Eilish who launched a furious tirade against the 'All Lives Matter' movement.
Riots have spread across dozens of States following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on Monday after a white officer knelt on his neck.
Rapper Machine Gun Kelly was also out with friends taking part in the LA demonstrations. He was pictured holding a sign which said: 'Silence is a betrayal.'
Actor Kendrick Sampson was also posting regular updates to his Instagram feed from the protests.
Horrifying footage showed the Insecure star being struck by police batons and fired at with rubber bullets as screams were heard in the background.
He is heard asking officers, 'Why are you hitting me,' as cops in riot gear strike him with their batons and shoot him with rubber bullets as he appears to be protesting peacefully.
Also joining protests in West Hollywood, Madison Beer wore a Dallas Cowboys sweatshirt and carried a Dior saddle bag along with her 'Black Lives Matter' sign.
One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush, who previously posted about Floyd's death on social media, joined in the protests too.
She wore a white shirt reading: 'Officer, I'm lost, I'm looking for the land of the free with equal right for everyone. It's called America.'
In North Carolina, rapper J. Cole was seen joining in the demonstrations against police brutality in downtown Fayetville.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8373797/Celebrities-join-riot-frontline-Halsey-Billie-Eillish-Emily-Ratajkowski.html
Real-life Killing Eve' who killed 23 for Basque ETA terrorists - and was the inspiration for hit show is now working for the RED CROSS, says her mother says
Psychopathic TV serial killer Villanelle is described by her creator – thriller writer Luke Jennings – as ‘a spectral and elusive quarry, always one flawless step ahead’. Jennings says he also admires her ‘grim artistry’.
As fans of the drama, now in its third series, are aware, Villanelle displays no remorse for her extravagantly sadistic ‘hits’. Played by Jodie Comer, the hired assassin employed by an underworld gang called The Twelve, becomes involved in an obsessive cat-and-mouse game with MI6 agent Eve Polastri, played by Sandra Oh.
The idea of the story came to Jennings – who was the Observer newspaper’s dance critic – when he tried to turn the ‘womanising and humourless’ genre of male thriller book heroes on its head.
So he invented Villanelle – real name Oksana Astankova – a ‘child of post-Soviet chaos, as brilliant as she was ferocious’. But only recently has it emerged that an inspiration for her was Idoia Lopez Riano, a green-eyed femme fatale who became the world’s most wanted female assassin in the 1980s while carrying out atrocities for Eta, the Basque separatist group.
In total, she killed 23, including 12 Civil Guards in one bomb attack. Finally caught in 1994, she was handed a 1,500-year jail sentence but later renounced terror and walked free in 2017, aged 52.
A sadistic penchant for luring police officers to bed, before gunning down their colleagues, got the disco-loving, tousle-haired killer the nickname ‘La Tigresa’.
Like Villanelle, she often paused to admire her reflection before executing her next victim. The similarities with Comer’s character are obvious, with Jennings himself saying: ‘Riano was a psychopath and completely without empathy.’
However, in a remarkable twist – one that even the imaginative Villanelle might never have come up with – Riano’s mother last night claimed that her daughter now works for the Red Cross. Speaking last week from her home in the tiny village of Villar de Ciervo near the Portuguese border, her mother, Mari Riano, 86, said she’s ‘proud’ of her daughter who has been ‘turning things around’. She said: ‘She speaks three or four languages and is throwing herself into the work. Idoia is with the Red Cross in Barcelona. Everyone loves her there.’
The contrast between Riano’s alleged humanitarian work and her previous role as a commando with Eta, whose violent campaign for independence left more than 850 people dead, is as sharp as her role as assassin was with her very normal childhood. As a youngster with piercing eyes and dark, tumbling hair, Riano was ‘just one of the girls’, says her cousin, Jose Antonio Lopez, adding: ‘She was pretty soft.’
That changed in 1980 when, through a boyfriend from the Basque town of Errenteria, the then 16-year-old Riano was recruited by Eta. She registered her first kill at the age of 20.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8372547/Assassin-killed-23-Basque-separatists-Eta-working-RED-CROSS-says-mother.html