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...with a bodyguard, that means police is watchin'/And I only use his waist to keep my Glock in," hip-hop star JAY-Z declared on his last album. That claim sounded eminently plausible last week, when police allegedly found a loaded Glock in the waistband of Jay-Z's bodyguard Hamza Hewitt after stopping a car containing the rapper, Hewitt and two other men. All four were arrested and charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Jay-Z's lawyer stated that his client was not guilty, helpfully adding that "other celebrities have often used armed security...
Officer Stephen Roach had pursued Thomas, 19, because of 14 outstanding warrants for misdemeanor charges and traffic violations. Thomas attempted to flee from Roach, and at one point, Roach told authorities, Thomas moved his hand towards his waistband as if reaching for a gun. Roach then shot Thomas in the chest. No weapon was found, and a grand jury investigation as to whether Roach used excessive force will begin this week...
...floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. When Brafman began his queries, the courtroom took on a kind of off-Broadway feeling, as if one was watching a performance instead of a legal proceeding. He tore into Fenderson's account of Puffy allegedly slipping in a gun in his waistband on the night of the shooting. "Wasn't [Combs] wearing a fur coat?" Brafman barked. Later Brafman added "You ever try getting out of a fur coat sitting in a car?" Many of Brafman's questions appeared to be rhetorical, and Bogdanos objected numerous times...
...Brafman continued his cross-examination. Fenderson held to his story that he saw Combs with a gun on the night of the shootings, but he was unclear on details. He said that he saw Combs pull up his "Sean John" sweat top to put a gun in his waistband, but couldn't recall whether Combs was wearing a T-shirt underneath his sweat top or not. He also testified that Combs offered him a bribe of a pinkie ring while Combs was handcuffed in the police station, but Fenderson was unable to recall which of Combs' hands was handcuffed...
Polls show the presidential race is tighter than Ted Kennedy's waistband, so perhaps it's time for less traditional methods of prognostication. The Weekly World News reports that the space alien who has chosen the winner correctly since 1992 has picked George W. Bush. Not all such scientific methods agree...