WEST POINT CADET TAKES PATTI LABELLE TO COURT
HOUSTON (AP) _ The trial has begun as a former West Point cadet sues Patti LaBelle for allegedly telling her bodyguard to beat him up at a Houston airport terminal in March 2011. Richard King says he was waiting for his family to pick him up when LaBelle’s bodyguard and two others attacked him. He says he suffered a brain injury that forced him to drop out of West Point. King’s lawyer acknowledges his client had a blood alcohol level of 0.28 but was minding his own business. LaBelle’s attorney says King was the aggressor and had shouted racial insults at LaBelle. The trial is expected to last about a week.
Alwin Marshall-Squire is the Editor-in-Chief of S-Q Publications Inc., overseeing editorial strategy for GTA Weekly, GTA Today, and Vision Newspaper. He leads the publications’ mission to deliver bold, original journalism focused on the people and communities of the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, and the global Caribbean diaspora.
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