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Dirtbag Dad! Kevin Hart’s Father Busted For Stabbing Man In Head Over $6 Dispute
Henry Witherspoon has a rap sheet of three decades of felonies, violence and prison.
By Radar Staff
Posted on Dec 13, 2017 @ 7:40AM

Kevin Hart has a reputation as one of comedy’s bad boys — but he’s an angel compared to his wild-man dad, who’s had multiple drug busts, was found guilty of sexual assault — and was even accused of stabbing a man in the head after stealing $6 from him, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively!

Court records obtained by Radar reveal Witherspoon and two accomplices cowardly robbed a lone 16-year-old at gunpoint in 1969, ten years before 38-year-old Kevin was born.

A year later, Witherspoon was arrested for running a craps game — but he was just getting started.

The year Kevin was born, 1979, he was found guilty of rape and simple assault!

In 1987, cops actually saw him viciously attack a guy with martial arts nunchaku sticks after he’d already robbed him of $270. His victim got ten stitches — and Witherspoon got three years of probation after pleading guilty to aggravated assault.

So it was probably a good thing that Witherspoon, a cocaine addict, was almost never home after Kevin turned eight. He worked as a refrigeration mechanic and lived in a Philadelphia room with his girlfriend, leaving his wife, Nancy Hart, to raise the future comedy superstar and his older brother, Robert, on her own. Tragically, Nancy died of cancer in 2007.

Without his family, Wither*spoon continued to spiral out of control. He was locked up in 1988 for DUI after his car was involved in an accident.

In 1999, Witherspoon had a horrible year. He was charged with stabbing a man in the head, according to court documents obtained exclusively by Radar.

The charges were later dismissed, but that same year Witherspoon was arrested twice within a few months for buying crack cocaine. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two to four months in prison and two years probation.

But Witherspoon was also ordered to complete drug and alcohol treatment — and that finally turned his life around.

Court records uncovered by Radar quote his lawyer as telling the judge, “He’s basically someone who has said, ‘I’m too old to live this life anymore, I need to change this.’”

It’s a story nobody dreamed would have a happy ending, but Kevin has actually reconciled with his wayward dad!

“The way I see it, things happen for a reason,” Kevin said. “If my dad had been around and didn’t do drugs, I may be handling my success differently. I may be on drugs!”

Still, the comic superstar may have inherited some of his dad’s crazy ways: He was arrested on DUI charges in 2013 — and just last September he became embroiled in an extortion plot involving a steamy sex video with a Las Vegas model. The FBI is investigating the case!

Kevin publicly apologized to his wife, Eniko Parrish — who was pregnant at the time — and his children Heaven, 12, and Hendrix, 10, who he had with ex-wife Torrei Hart. It was “a bad error in judgment,” Kevin confessed.

Good ol' nunchuks.

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Nunchaku no toy, Bundy dad finds out
8th Jan 2018 2:52 PM


The Bundy dad was fined $200.
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by Carolyn Booth

PARENTS thinking of making your kids home-made weapons take note.

Nunchaku are illegal in Queensland and even a rustic set made from cut lengths of a broom handle and chain could land you in court.

It was a lesson Dallas Kenneth James Wallace learnt the hard way after Bundaberg police found the nunchaku during a search of his home on December 6 last year.

Wallace said he made it for his kids to "muck around with” and didn't know they were illegal.

He was fined $200 in the Bundaberg Magistrates Court today.

$200 will buy you a lot of nunchuks

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Not a nunchuck. A flying kick.

Richmond librarian allegedly assaulted with ‘flying Bruce Lee kick’ at homeless housing meeting
Graeme Wood / Richmond News
By V.I.A. - March 1, 2018


A librarian was assaulted at a public open house for temporary, modular housing for homeless in Richmond Wednesday evening. Daisy Xiong photo

According to multiple eyewitness accounts, a librarian was assaulted at a public open house for temporary, modular housing in Richmond Wednesday evening.

On Thursday morning, police confirmed an investigation has opened into an alleged assault in the 7000 block of Minoru Gate.

Stan Lomas, a longtime Richmond resident, said he had arrived at the Richmond Public Library Brighouse Branch to use an animation program.

He was seated nearby a large crowd of people conversing in Cantonese and as such didn’t know what was going on initially.

“You could feel the energy,” he said.

He said he then heard a commotion and “someone had gone over and up turned the table.

“This place was packed. Then there was lots of yelling,” he said.

Between this time, Lomas said he figures the older librarian had approached the crowd to separate homeless advocates and the crowd. He said he suspects the suspect was against the project that would see 40 units built at 7300 Elmbridge Way.

As Lomas was about to return to his animations, the suspect ran at the librarian and did a “flying Bruce Lee kick” into her stomach.

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“I was surprised she wasn’t as injured as she looked because she was able to get up. I know that would have knocked me out,” said Lomas, 67.

He said the suspect, described as an Asian man in his mid-20s, wearing a backpack, fled the scene.

Resident Kehui Au said she also witnessed the kick.

“The guy went to the librarian and kicked her. It looked like she was in a lot of pain,” said Au.

Richmond RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Dennis Hwang said “it was alleged a female had been assaulted by a male.

“It is believed the alleged offender had kicked a female and proceeded to flee. If anyone has information on this event — I was informed there may have been a number of witnesses present at this function — to call Richmond RCMP at 604-278-1212 and quote case 2018-6424.”

A library worker denied to comment on the incident.

Announced earlier this month, the project is an effort to combat the growth of homelessness in Richmond which has increased by 84 per cent since 2014, according to the Metro Vancouver homeless count. The homes will be operated by RainCity Housing, a non-profit housing organization and will offer support services for residents around-the-clock.

“The tenants will be selected in partnership with BC Housing and RainCity. Richmond residents will be given first priority,” said the City of Richmond’s affordable housing coordinator Joyce Rautenberg.

Currently, the province is contributing $5.9 million to construct the units while the city is contributing land at 7300 Elmbridge Way for the homes for up to five years.

“Looking at the city’s inventory we looked at a few options,” Rautenberg said about the property. “This site was determined to be the most suitable due to the close proximity to transit, Canada Line, buses and proximity to services and resources in the neighbourhood.”

Following the five-year lease, BC Housing would return the site back to the city in its original condition, Rautenberg said. At that time, BC Housing and RainCity Housing would work to ensure the tenants are moved into appropriate housing.

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...I'm curious if anyone here ever got busted for nunchucks? I'm sure we all know people that got busted for them. I can think of several offhand, although most of them were just warned and not cited. I got shut down for trying to make a pair in wood shop in High School, but I wasn't penalized beyond just being told I couldn't do that for my project (I made a wine rack and a pirate peg-leg instead). Later, I brought a pair to my Humanities class for a speech I gave on Kung Fu and nobody batted an eye, except for the poor kid who was seated in the front row as I twirled them about.

At this point, MAM is still not selling Nunchuks to NY or the other previously banned states until the dust settles on all of this. As a martial arts vendor, MAM does get audited regularly and it's a huge hassle. But soon, hopefully.

I was arrested for having nunchucks in New York. I’m glad the law was overturned. | Marc Thiessen
Updated: December 27, 2018 - 8:43 AM


ELAINE THOMPSON

WASHINGTON -- I was arrested for having nunchucks in New York. I'm glad the law was overturned.

When news broke last week that a federal judge had ruled a New York law banning possession of nunchucks unconstitutional, I felt vindicated. You see, as a teenager growing up in New York City in the 1980s, I was arrested and thrown in jail for illegal possession of nunchucks. Really.

During high school, I got into Bruce Lee martial-arts movies. Long before Mayor Rudy Giuliani turned Times Square into a family-friendly theme park, there was a movie theater on Broadway that showed nonstop kung-fu fare. Over summer break, I would go to see Lee movies such as "Game of Death," "Fist of Fury" and "Enter the Dragon," Lee's last film before his death from cerebral edema at age 32 in 1973. The highlight of every Lee movie, for me, was when he picked up a pair of nunchucks -- two short sticks connected by a steel swivel chain -- and began swinging them around his body, taking out dozens of enemy fighters.

After the movie let out one afternoon, I went to a martial-arts store across the street from the theater and bought myself a pair of nunchucks. Unlike the hardwood pair Lee used, I bought a soft pair made of light plywood and covered in bright yellow foam so that when I swung them around and accidentally hit myself on the head, I wouldn't knock myself out.

One day I was riding on the subway going to a friend's house, quietly holding my nunchucks, when a police officer approached me. "Do you know those are illegal?" he asked. No, I told him, I didn't. It hadn't even occurred to me that possessing a pair of the foam-covered nunchucks could be against the law. But it turned out that New York state in 1974 had enacted a complete ban on the possession of nunchucks by private citizens.

The police officer told me to get off with him at the next stop. He pushed me against a wall, handcuffed me, threw me in a squad car and took me to the New York Transit Police station on Columbus Circle, where I was put into a cell with a bunch of drunks and booked on charges of a Class A misdemeanor, "criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree."

I used my one call to phone my mother -- a doctor who worked treating heroin addicts in the South Bronx. She came down to the station and berated the arresting officer in her thick Polish accent, offering to take him to Central Park and point him to all the drug dealers selling heroin there. Why didn't he do something about them, rather than harassing a harmless teenager? She had to spend thousands of dollars to hire a lawyer, who told us that the charges were serious and that I could face jail time. We went to court, and he cut a deal to have the prosecution deferred. I stood before a judge who told me if I did not commit another crime in the next 12 months, the charges would be dropped and my arrest record expunged. Until then, I was a "juvenile offender." I passed the time without incident and never picked up a pair of nunchucks again.

I have often wondered what would have happened to a kid whose mother could not afford a decent lawyer. It was absurd that a teenager could have had his life ruined, and be stuck with a criminal record, simply because he wanted to be like Bruce Lee.

I always knew my arrest was a travesty. Now three decades later, the law under which I was arrested has been declared unconstitutional. Citing the Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which applied the Second Amendment to the states, U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen, who was nominated by President Obama, ruled that "the possession and use of nunchaku is protected by the Second Amendment" and that the sections of the New York law banning them are "an unconstitutional restriction on the right to bear arms ... and are, therefore, void."

The suit was filed by a lawyer named James Maloney, who, like me, had been arrested for possessing nunchucks. He has been fighting this fight since his arrest in 2000. Eighteen years later, he and I have been vindicated. Americans have a constitutional right to keep and bear nunchucks. Not just the foam kind, but the real thing.

I have the feeling that, somewhere up there, Bruce Lee is smiling.

Marc Thiessen writes a twice-weekly column for The Post on foreign and domestic policy. He is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush. @marcthiessen

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Nunchuck attack defendant makes her case
By Kyle Perrotti kperrotti@themountaineer.com Mar 1, 2019


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NEIGHBORS — The distance between Gentry’s and Smith’s apartments, seen here, is only about 30 feet.

Neighbors sometimes feud, but since Kathleen Smith moved in next to Janet Gentry, it’s been almost constant.

The Mountaineer wrote last week about the women’s latest feud, which ended with Gentry being charged with assault with a deadly weapon for using nunchucks on Smith during an altercation. But not long after the story, which featured quotes from Smith, ran in print, Gentry reached out to tell her side of the story.

Much of what she wanted told appeared in the incident report, which was filled out by Deputy Kevin Brooks, who first responded on the scene.

“Upon arrival, I observed five individuals arguing amongst themselves and posturing like they were going to fight,” Brooks noted in the incident report. “I gave several commands for everyone to separate. It took several attempts of this to get compliance.”

Gentry said the incident began when she observed Smith, along with her boyfriend, Bobby McCollough, who had recently moved into the apartments after being displaced by the Suyeta Park Apartment fire, embroiled in a heated argument with her son. At one point, she was afraid McCollough was going to assault Smith’s son. That’s when Gentry called 911.

“She was standing in the yard when she said, ‘you need to go on down the road,’” McCollough said.

Smith said her altercation with Gentry escalated because she was frustrated with what she perceived as her neighbor’s intrusion into a personal matter.

“I told her, ‘you need to quit putting your nose in other people’s business,’” Smith said.

Gentry said that when she became the target of the heated language from McCollough and his son, who was also on the scene, her son stepped in and told the them “don’t talk to my mom like that.”

Although it isn’t clear who pulled out what first, before long, Gentry’s son had a knife out, while McCollough and his son had a baseball bat and tire iron.

“Clayton (McCullough) was trying to get my son to hit him, and Bobby told me ‘we’re going to make your son bleed,” Gentry said, a claim that McCollough firmly denied.

That’s when the altercation between the two women occurred.

“She hit me from behind,” Gentry recalled, a fact Smith didn’t deny. However, what’s more unclear is whether Smith brandished a hypodermic needle as a weapon.


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“At some point, Mrs. Smith pushed Mrs. Gentry down and was waving the hypodermic needle at her,” the incident report reads. “Mrs. Gentry received a set of nunchucks and hit Mrs. Smith in the back several times.”

But Smith denied that happening.

“I showed them there wasn’t no needle,” she said.

While the back and forth between the parties involved in the altercation paints an unclear picture of who might be to blame, at the end of the day, it was Gentry along with Smith’s son and daughter-in-law who were hit with misdemeanor charges.

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Knives, nunchucks, large snow globe found at Charlotte Douglas checkpoints
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Transportation Security Administration agents have confiscated knives, nunchucks and a chainsaw from passengers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

Items such as those can bring checkpoint lines to a grinding halt.

The moment travelers roll their suitcases through the doors, they all have a common goal – making it to their plane in time.

“You need to be on time,” traveler Silvina Giammarra said.

But some travelers don’t always inspect their bags beforehand, which creates a problem for everyone else at TSA checkpoints.

TSA Federal Security Director Kevin Frederick said his agents run into the issue every day.

From a replica gun to real guns, people walk into airports with plenty of items that won’t fly.

“Flabbergasted – we’re talking about explosives on board an airplane. What would make you think you can bring it onboard an aircraft?” Frederick said.

Agents at Charlotte Douglas have stopped brass knuckles, nunchucks and even part of a chainsaw from going onboard.

“They are working really hard,” airline attendant Deandrea Gadsden said. “I never thought a bowling pin could be a weapon.”

Channel 9 learned 65 guns have been found so far this year at the airport and 75 were found in total last year.

Any weapons, especially guns, can wreck travel plans.



Officials said the average time in a security checkpoint at Charlotte Douglas is just over 9 1/2 minutes, but, if a gun or other dangerous weapon is found, the wait time can more than double.

Even a snow globe can get travelers in trouble because what’s inside it.

“If it is larger than a tennis ball, you cannot and, reason for it: That’s not water in there; that is glycol alcohol,” Frederick said.

This holiday season, more than 32,000 people a day are expected to roll through Charlotte Douglas, and agents will be screening everything.

Agents suggest travelers do themselves and everyone else a favor: Double-check your bags. They also said that if you happen to get stuck in line, always remember it is your safety they are trying to protect.

“It is the responsibility of the passenger on what you can carry and what you can’t carry,” Giammarra said.

Those are the foam chucks carried at MartialArtSmart. Here in Cali, chucks with chains are illegal, even if they are foam padded.

PD: Man attacks ex-girlfriend with throwing knives and nunchucks
Posted: 1:46 PM, Nov 21, 2019 Updated: 1:53 PM, Nov 21, 2019
By: Joe Enea


TEMPE, AZ — A man in Tempe has been charged with multiple counts of aggravated assault for attacking his ex-girlfriend with knives and nunchucks.

Tempe police report that on the morning of November 16, they responded to a call at an apartment complex near Rural Road and Apache Boulevard after a woman pounded on a neighbor's door asking for help.

The woman reportedly told police that her ex-boyfriend Tomas Salinas, 51, attacked her after consuming one-liter of vodka. Salinas allegedly dragged the victim from one room to another by her hair, before grabbing a throwing knife from his 10-piece throwing knife kit and holding it to her throat.

According to the police, the woman also saw a noose hanging from the ceiling on a hook. Court records show that Salinas has used the knives, a sword, and nunchucks to attack and threaten the woman in the past.

Salinas remained in the apartment after the victim escaped for about two hours as police and SWAT team members evacuated nearby apartment units.

He eventually surrendered to police. Inside the apartment, investigators reportedly found the throwing knife kit, multiple sets of nunchucks, and a green rope hanging from the ceiling.

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Tens of thousands attend Pride parade in Israel's Tel Aviv
Friday, June 25th 2021, 6:10 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, June 25th 2021, 10:56 AM EDT

By ARIEL SCHALIT
Associated Press

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of people attended a Pride parade in Tel Aviv on Friday in one of the largest public gatherings in Israel since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

The vibrant parade and beach party are held on the seafront promenade in the Israeli city, a rare hub of gay culture in the conservative Middle East. Elsewhere in the region ****sexuality is widely considered taboo and is outlawed in many countries.

Some 250,000 people attended the Tel Aviv parade honoring the LGBTQ community in 2019, before it was called off last year because of the pandemic.

Organizers estimated the turnout at Friday's event at 100,000, saying it's one of the largest worldwide since the pandemic struck.

“Pride events in Tel Aviv-Yafo are a long-standing tradition, centered on a message of equality, acceptance, and human and civil rights," Mayor Ron Huldai said. "This year, more than ever, we will celebrate together, march together, and fight together for equality.”

Israel fully reopened this spring after carrying out one of the world's most successful vaccination campaigns, but a recent outbreak driven by the more contagious delta variant has raised concerns.

Authorities are once again requiring people to wear masks in indoor public places starting Friday, and are advising mask-wearing at large outdoor events like the Pride celebrations.

Several marchers said they were sad to have missed the parade last year.

“It is not just a celebration, it is also a demonstration for our rights, for our existence, so it feels really good to be here again to march with everyone,” said Noam Klar.

Nina Korolev said it was the first time she attended a Pride parade.

“It is so delicious, it is amazing," she said. "I’m very proud that I can be here in a free country with free people together. All humans must have the same rights.”

Thousands of people marched through Jerusalem earlier this month in a much smaller Pride parade, celebrating LGBTQ rights in the conservative city amid heavy police security.

Pride events in Jerusalem, home to a large ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, tend to be more subdued. A radical ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed a 16-year-old girl to death at a Pride event in Jerusalem in 2015, an attack that was condemned across the political spectrum.

Police said they arrested a suspected attacker in Tel Aviv after tracking him ahead of the parade. The man in his 30s was found carrying nunchaku, an Asian martial arts weapon, as well as an electric shocker, chains and other “means of assault,” the police said.

The police later also said they arrested a husband and wife who assaulted police officers while trying to enter the parade area so they could heckle the event.

Support for gay rights is increasingly widespread in Israel, where gay people serve openly in the military and parliament. Yet they haven’t attained full equality.

Jewish ultra-Orthodox parties, which wield significant influence over matters of religion and state, oppose ****sexuality as a violation of religious law.

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Associated Press reporter Shlomo Mor contributed to this report.

If only it was a rainbow chuck.

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Nunchucks Master From The Oranges Invents New Martial Arts System
Eldridge Hawkins Jr. is the founder of Ken-Fu Nunchaku Jutsu. He's also a former New Jersey mayor – and a hall of fame martial artist.

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(Photo courtesy of Eldridge Hawkins Jr.)
Eldridge Hawkins Jr. (in black), the founder of Ken-Fu Nunchaku Jutsu, demonstrates a takedown technique with the aid of student, Gage Knopf.

ORANGES, NJ — When he was crafting his new martial arts system, Eldridge Hawkins Jr. had a simple-but-tricky vision: it needed to be “realistic.” Apparently, this Essex County master of the nunchucks has nailed his target – and then some.

Recently, the North American Nunchaku Association, one of the most respected nunchaku organizations in the world, became the latest group to recognize Ken-Fu Nunchaku Jutsu as an official martial arts system.

Hawkins – the system’s founder – is a former West Orange resident who served as mayor of Orange from 2008 to 2012. He was inducted into the USA Unified Martial Arts Hall of Fame earlier this year. Read More: Ex-Mayor In The Oranges Earns Spot In Martial Arts Hall Of Fame

According to Hawkins, Ken-Fu Nunchaku Jutsu is a “complete” style that aims to combine the iconic martial arts weapon with more traditional striking techniques.

He writes:

“Specifically, this new nunchaku style fuses various elements of competition katas and swinging strikes of the American-style nunchaku system (as taught by founder Grand Master Michael Burke, 9th Dan), with the close quarter fighting of Chinese Kenpo Kung-Fu/Fusion Kenpo (as instructed by Professor Harry Baker, 10th Dan), Ed Parker’s Kenpo Nunchaku teachings, Jujitsu, and [my] own original techniques. More specifically, several of the strikes, locks, throws and more of Kenpo and Jujitsu have been augmented where appropriate to facilitate self-defense techniques utilizing the nunchaku and everyday objects in conjunction with the standard empty hand techniques.”
Because most people don’t usually walk around town with a pair of nunchaku, Hawkins’ system teaches students to strike, trap, choke or otherwise control an attacker with common items such as sticks, belts or even socks. It’s a style that’s realistic and meets national and international training standards of established martial arts organizations, he said.

Several of his peers in the martial arts have backed up his claims.

“I enjoyed the [Ken-Fu] self-defense and thought it was very useful and practical,” said Chris Pellitteri, president and founder of the North American Nunchaku Association / American Kobudo Association.

“Most nunchaku systems don’t focus on self-defense – it was refreshing to see,” Pellitteri said.

There are several other groups that have agreed with the North American Nunchaku Association on this point, including the American Style Nunchaku Federation, Independent Karate Schools of America, and the United States Martial Arts Federation.



Hawkins, now 42, began his martial arts career at Red Iron Dragon Karate Academy in East Orange when he was 7-years-old. He earned his first black belt in 2001 in Chinese Kenpo Kung Fu. Over the years Hawkins placed in and won several tournaments while studying different forms of martial arts, earning a master-level rank in different styles including Fusion Kenpo, U.S. Ju-Jitsu and American-style nunchaku.

The former politician, who is known to his students as Shihan E. Hawkins, is the senior international rank examiner in charge of training for the American Style Nunchaku Federation, a member of the United States Ju Jitsu Federation Senior Masters Caucus, and has recently been appointed to the role of vice president in the United States Martial Arts Federation.

Despite multiple knee surgeries, Hawkins has used teaching and his work with Ken-Fu Nunchaku Jutsu to remain active in the sport – and lifestyle – that he’s come to love. And his fellow martial artists say it’s good that he did.

“I congratulate Master Hawkins on the new Ken-Fu recognition from NANA and thank him for his ongoing contributions to the martial arts community and American Style Nunchaku Federation,” said Grand Master Michael Burke, president of the American Style Nunchaku Federation.

The Ken Fu Nunchaku Jutsu technical committee – which helps ensure the quality of training standards – includes Professor Harry Baker, 10th Dan of Baker’s Red Iron Dragon; Grand Master Michael Burke, 9th Dan; Hanshi Bruce Bethers, 9th Dan, as well as other black belts Ashanti Shakir, Rodney Armstrong, Sabu Rashidi, and Hawkins’ father, Eldridge Hawkins Sr.

See current Ken-Fu Nunchaku Jutsu system rank requirements here. Interested students or any dojo sensei interested in learning more can visit the UFC Gym, 498 Main Street in Orange, or visit the following websites: https://kenfununchaku.com or www.FusionKenpo.com.

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Denver deputy suspended for breaking inmate's wrist with nunchucks

The City of Denver banned the use of the nunchucks six months after a deputy applied too much pressure to an inmate’s wrist, causing a break.
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Author: Jeremy Jojola
Published: 4:55 PM MST January 10, 2023
Updated: 4:55 PM MST January 10, 2023

DENVER — Newly released discipline documents reveal that a Denver Sheriff Department deputy working at the city jail was suspended for three days after injuring in inmate with nunchucks in April 2021.
According to the Denver Department of Public Safety documents that were dated Dec. 27, Deputy Daniel Rodriguez applied too much pressure to an inmate’s wrist using a device called the Orcutt Police Nunchaku (OPN).
The documents describe an out-of-control inmate who was attempting to bite officers. The inmate might have been high on drugs, according to the records. The records also indicate the discipline decision wasn’t made until December 2022.
“Deputy Rodriguez failed to exercise good judgment in applying increasingly greater pressure on the OPNs, despite being met with no indication from [the inmate] that he was sensing pain,” the documents say.
A former law enforcement officer from Denver invented OPN devices in the 1980s, and since then, dozens of agencies across the country have used them as pain compliance tools.
The devices look similar to traditional nunchucks; however, they are not usually used to strike or hit, but to gain compliance by applying pressure at the joints.

Credit: Kevin Orcutt
Approximately six months after the inmate was injured, Denver’s head of public safety banned the use of the nunchucks by police and deputies, according to a departmental directive in 2021.
The directive cited injuries and incidents in which “OPN has snapped or otherwise failed” and said “other options are available to officers and deputies for the purposes of arrest control or pain compliance.”
The creator of the OPN device, Kevin Orcutt, told 9NEWS over the phone there has never been a death associated with their use and that they can be safe if used with common sense.

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I like the sound of that. Drunken numchuk. Sounds like a great name for a punk band.

Attack with sticks, get stuck in jail
Man busted in attempted nunchaku attack
William Carroll
Posted: 09/24/2010

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. - A 43-year-old man was arrested following a reported attempted nunchaku attack that didn't exactly rise to Bruce Lee standards.

William Carroll, of the 1800 block of North 49th Street in Fort Pierce, for an "unknown reason" on Tuesday got upset with a man in the 3900 block of Avenue I, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.

Carroll, who was too intoxicated to answer the questions of sheriff's investigators, grabbed a nunchaku and started "banging on the front door." After the man opened the door, Carroll allegedly tried to attack him with the nunchaku. The man punched Carroll in the head and sustained a possible broken hand during the fight. He wasn't hit by the nunchaku.

Nunchaku, said to have originated in Okinawa, consists of two hard sticks joined by a short length of cord or chain. Lee put them to good use in the 1973 classic Enter The Dragon.

When sheriff's deputies initially arrived, Carroll smelled of booze and had an "obvious" head injury. He was too intoxicated to answer questions and eventually ran from the crime scene, though investigators got him handcuffed in the 3800 block of Sloan Road.

The affidavit didn't state where Carroll got the nunchaku or whether he'd seen Enter The Dragon, in which Lee's character is sent to infiltrate the island of a crime lord named Han through Han's martial arts tournament.

Carroll entered the jail on charges including aggravated assault, burglary with assault or battery and resisting an officer without violence.

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Benjamin Mendez, 32, of the 6200 block of Fairway Drive, Yuba County, was arrested by the Yuba County Sheriff's Department at 2:45 p.m. Sept. 30 at North Beale Road and Avondale Avenue on suspicion of possessing nunchaku. He was booked into Yuba County Jail.

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Roy P. Kehoe, 49, of 25 Horseshoe Drive, Auburn, charged with possession of chemical mace without a firearm ID card, fined $100, $90 victim witness fee; carrying a dangerous weapon (nunchaku), fined $50; two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (nunchaku, concrete) and assault and battery, dismissed.

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Border officials confiscate nearly $1 million in goods in 2010
January 26, 2011

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) came off a very busy month of December with a number of incidents involving people attempting to avoid paying GST or other taxes as well as a number of people being denied entry due to criminal records.

In 2010, CBSA officers at North Portal alone, seized almost $1 million worth of goods and restricted, controlled and prohibited items from travellers entering Canada.

With these seizures, some were held as forfeit while others were returned to the individuals after they paid penalties. Assessed penalties in 2010 totalled $203,639 while the goods seized were valued at $990,170.

CBSA is also acknowledging International Customs Day today (Wed. Jan. 26) as the public’s way to recognize the contribution customs services make to Canada at their international borders and ports. The day is being marked in several ways across the country to acknowledge the valuable work being done by CBSA employees.

As evidence of the type of work they do, it was reported that on Dec. 4, a North Dakota resident was denied entry into Canada when officers discovered through investigation that the subject had been charged with being in possession of marijuana, driving while intoxicated and was a fugitive from justice.

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On Dec. 31, a commercial driver from Texas was denied entry due to previous convictions for robbery and assault.
On the first day of the month, an Alberta resident moving back to Canada declared a nunchaku and an over-capacity ammunition magazine, both of which are prohibited in Canada. While CBSA officers conducted an examination of the vehicle, they found a second nunchaku and two more over capacity ammunition magazines. All weapons and ammunition were seized and the traveller was issued a $1,000 penalty.

Now why would you declare one and not the other?

[sanjuro_ronin]

Now why would you declare one and not the other?

He's from Alberta.

[crashhelmet]

Am I the only one that noticed that almost all of these reports of Nunchaku arrests were in Yuba County, California?

There's nothing up there but an Air Force base and a crap load of farm/ranch land. I'd expect a lot of reports of cattle tipping before Nunchaku arrests

[GeneChing]

I think we get so many Yuba reports because Yuba posts their police blotter online and that comes up high in the web searches. I'm more intrigued about how many numchuk wielders are drunks or stoners. Here's another one - with oysters no less.

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Man charged, drugs, air rifles and oysters seized in raid – Cundletown
Friday, 25 Feb 2011 11:14am

A man has been charged with drug, weapons and larceny offences following the search of a house at Cundletown yesterday.

Police from Manning/Great Lakes Local Area Command have been working with NSW Fisheries as part of a joint operation to investigate the theft of oysters from Scotts Creek, Mitchells Island on Sunday 20 February 2011.

As a result of investigations police and NSW Fisheries officers attended a house in Princes Street, Cundletown at 10:40am yesterday.

During a search of the property police allegedly located a large amount of oyster shells in a garbage bin as well as inside the kitchen fridge.

It will also be alleged twelve cannabis plants and an amount of dried cannabis was found in a garden shed while more cannabis, two air rifles, two sets of nunchaku and ammunition was also seized during the search.

At 3:30pm a 38-year-old man attended Taree Police Station where he was arrested and charged with two counts of possess prohibited weapon and one count each of possess prohibited drug, possess prohibited plant and larceny.

He has been granted conditional bail to appear in Taree Local Court on Tuesday 22 March 2011.

Investigations into the matter are continuing. Police are appealing for anyone with information on this or similar matters is urged to contact Taree detectives via Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. All information will be treated in strict confidence.