TPN‘s Trifling Entity of the Week
Chicago’s Finest So let me make sure I have this right: a 14-year-old kid, who is all of 5’3″, posed as a Chicago cop, even drawing an assignment riding shotgun for five hours with another officer—who, perhaps, might have had some training in detection—and no one was the wiser until the eighth-grader’s shift was over? … Read more
TPN‘s Trifling Person of the Week
John Roberts John, I was almost going to let it go. But then I saw a replay of you going Yoda on the Presidential Oath, and realized this singular moment, the one hundreds of millions of people around the world had tuned in to see, was going to be ruined forever. While bumbling over words … Read more
TPN‘s Trifling Couple of the Week
Heath and Deborah Campbell Here’s a tip for you would-be parents out there: You can never go right naming your son Adolf Hitler. But Heath and Deborah thought it would be cute, and they gave his sisters Nazi-inspired names too. Heath says he’s not racist, and well, Heath, that’s not the problem. The problem is … Read more
SPECIAL REPORT: Police Shootings Launch New Fashion Trend
By Craig Bates Black men hoping to not be killed by trigger-happy cops are snapping up the latest in body armor. (OAKLAND) As an African American, Danny Thompson isn’t sure when it will happen, but he knows it will: a cop is going to shoot him while he’s defenseless. Hoping to avoid the death that … Read more
TPN‘s Trifling Person of the Week
Danny Platt Talk about evil. Danny, 22, didn’t want to pay child support, so used his pea-sized brain to devise a way out: Kill his 2-year-old son. Now little Ja’Shawn Powell (you didn’t, for a moment, think that Danny was married to Ja’Shawn’s mother, did you?) is dead. Danny, whose brain somehow musters enough power … Read more
