A California mother pleaded guilty to involuntary mansl—ughter after 56-year-old Michael Dale suffocated during a fetish session she was filming for her OF account.
Michaela Rylaarsdam was reportedly paid $11,000 for the session, during which she allegedly wrapped Dale in plastic wrap, glued women’s boots onto him, and used adhesive to seal his eyes shut.
She reportedly filmed for four hours while Dale suffocated. When police arrived, they found him with a bag over his head.
Reports also stated that her husband knew about her activities and helped run her business.
Rylaarsdam faces a likely four-year prison sentence.
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He stepped outside a restaurant in Beverly Hills to put money in a parking meter.
Six hours later Charles Belk was still in a cell, barefoot, having been handcuffed on the pavement in front of a crowd in his own neighbourhood.
He is a film producer. He had done nothing.
22nd August 2014, during the Emmy weekend. Belk, 51, had been at a business dinner. He walked out to feed the meter.
Police surrounded him, handcuffed him, took his shoes, and sat him on the kerb in front of the restaurant while people filmed on their phones.
A bank had been robbed nearby. The description police were working from was a tall, bald Black man.
Belk is tall and bald.
That was the match. That was the entirety of the match.
He was held for about six hours on suspicion of robbery before surveillance footage was reviewed and he was released without charge. His car was impounded. He had to post bail to get out, and it took days to get that back.
He wrote about it afterwards, and the paragraph people quote is the one where he lists what he was doing: a business dinner, a parking meter, a pair of shoes taken off him on a public street.
Here is the part worth your attention.
Charles Belk produced films. He had a degree in engineering and an MBA. He was in a wealthy part of Los Angeles in a suit on a Friday night.
None of that is a defence against a description that says tall, bald, Black, because that description is not a description. It is a category, and there were about a hundred thousand men in that county who fit it.
Six hours, barefoot, for a parking meter.
Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is facing backlash over an ad featuring his opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother urging voters not to elect her.
Acton’s mother lost custody of her children after her husband was charged with sexually abusing Acton as a child.
Not competition. Continuity.
In the Reed Dance, young Zulu women move as one beads, reeds, and shared purpose. A living reminder that ancient African culture valued mutual strength over individual rivalry.
Heritage held in common.