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Fantastic Beasts： The Crimes of Grindelwald
20-year-old SMY and 19-year-old Zutti on the street in Harajuku wearing black lace and fishnets with fashion from MYOB, Versace, MCM, Demonia, Pleaser, Prega, remake items, Kinji vintage, and other Tokyo vintage shops. Full Looks
In 1992, 16-year-old Yoshihiro Hattori, a Japanese exchange student, was on his way to a Halloween party in his new hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As he arrived in the working-class neighbourhood in which the party was held, he mistakenly went to the wrong house. He stood on the chilly front porch of Rodney Peairs, and knocked on the door. Nobody answered, but Rodney’s wife, Bonnie, peered out through the curtains and became alarmed. She requested her husband retrieve his gun. As Yoshihiro began to stroll back to his car, disgruntled that the assumed host wouldn’t open the door to him, Rodney came to the front door, armed with his .44 Magnum revolver. He shouted “Freeze!” to Yoshihiro who exclaimed “We’re here for the party!” Nevertheless, Rodney fired his gun point blank at Yoshihiro before running back inside.
Thankfully, a friend of Yoshihiro witnessed the entire event and ran next door to request assistance. Neither Rodney nor Bonnie offered aid and even shouted at a neighbour to go away when they came to help. Tragically, Yoshihiro died on the way to the hospital. Originally, police questioned Rodney before releasing him, claiming that he was fully within his rights to shoot Yoshihiro. However, Louisiana governor, Edwin Edwards protested that the slaying of Yoshihiro was certainly manslaughter. During his trial, Rodney tried to claim that he feared for his life. District Attorney Doug Moteau disagreed. He said it hadn’t been reasonable for a man of 6′2″ to be afraid of a friendly and unarmed 130lbs boy who rang the doorbell before walking away to his own car. He hadn’t attempted to break in. He wasn’t wearing a scary mask. He wasn’t armed.
Nonetheless, Rodney was acquitted, but he was found to be liable to Yoshihiro’s parents for $650,000 in damages. With this money, his parents founded two charities in their son’s name. One was to fund U.S. students wanting to visit Japan while the other was for gun control. Following his acquittal, Rodney claimed that he would never own a gun again. He felt as though he had overreacted to his wife’s apparent fear. Many felt the outcome would have been different had Yoshihiro been a white American student.
No doubt…
Soft Table Collection / Nendo
Watch a video preview of the exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters from May 10 through October 8, 2018. (source: The Met on YouTube)
Pink smoothie bowls | by Samira Kazan
I still dream of the forest, where I used to be king.
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