Atlanta Man Eaten Alive By Bed Bugs While In Jail - Scholastic Books Censoring Material For CRT Backlash | ITBP S7E9
On this week’s episode we discuss the jailing of Lashawn Thompson, who was jailed in Fulton County on a misdemeanor , but was found in his cell eaten alive by “bed bugs, lice, and other vermin”. How did conditions get this bad? Why wasn’t anyone aware of this before hand? Also, major book publisher Scholastic Books is under fire for forcing author Tokuda-Hall to censor their writing about race in America as a Japanese immigrant during WW2. Can we expect more censorship from other publishers, and why is this happening now. And lastly, what happens when Jay-Z does a guest appearance on an album… but it’s not the real Sean Carter, but an AI generated voice? Is this just the beginning of AI in music? We discuss all that and much more.
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Lashawn Thompson: Eaten By Bed Bugs
A man died at an Atlanta jail after being eaten alive by insects and bed bugs, his family’s attorney told USA TODAY on Thursday.
LaShawn Thompson, 35, was arrested for misdemeanor simple battery in Atlanta last summer, officials said, and taken to the Fulton County Jail where he was placed in the psychiatric wing after officials determined he was mentally ill.
According to a Fulton County Medical Examiner's report obtained by USA TODAY, Thompson was found unresponsive in his jail cell Sept. 19, and pronounced dead after failed life-saving attempts by responding local police and medical personnel.
Like any children’s book author would be, Maggie Tokuda-Hall was thrilled at the news that Scholastic — arguably one of the most prominent publishing houses in the industry — wanted to license her book, Love in the Library, and feature it in an Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) narratives collection. The book, for kids ages 6-9, follows the story of her real-life grandparents, Tama and George Tokuda, whose beautiful WWII-era love story blossomed in the unlikeliest of places: Japanese American incarceration camp Minidoka. Gorgeously illustrated by Yas Imamura, it’s a story of hope amid adversity. But also, and perhaps more importantly, it’s a reminder of a hard truth: the fact that, in 1941, 120,000 Japanese Americans were wrongfully and cruelly imprisoned simply because they were Japanese.