Watch: 22-year-old basketball coach fired for posing as 13-year-old girl, high school team abandons season
An investigation has been launched after a 22-year-old assistant coach impersonated a 13-year-old girl during a junior varsity high school basketball game in Virginia.
Arlisha Boykins – a 22-year-old assistant coach at Churchland High School – has been fired by the Portsmouth Public Schools. Boykins is seen on video posing as a 13-year-old player during a basketball tournament on Jan. 21.
The 13-year-old player missed the game because she was out of town, according to her father. Boykins posed as the absent girl and played in the tournament game against Nansemond River High School.
Video shows Boykins blocking a teen girl's shot and racing past other players to score a layup for the Churchland Truckers. After the 22-year-old adult scored on teen girls, she celebrated.
The father of the 13-year-old girl told WAVY-TV, "Coaches always preach to the kids about integrity and those types of things, so I was just shocked."
Portsmouth Public Schools public information officer Lauren Nolasco confirmed the termination of Boykins to USA Today. Not only was Boykins fired, but the junior varsity head coach and the varsity coach were terminated. The varsity coach was reportedly "encouraging the behavior" during the game.
Following a meeting between school officials, players from the JV and varsity teams, and parents, the Churchland High School girls' junior varsity basketball team as well as the varsity team decided to abandon the rest of their seasons. The junior varsity team had a 12-2 record before the game involving cheating.
School officials said an investigation into the incident had been initiated.
The girl's family told WAVY-TV that their daughter will not return to Churchland High School next year. The family is also demanding an apology from the school.
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Kathy Griffin uses her dead mother's Twitter account to resume war with Elon Musk after getting suspended from platform for impersonating him
Comedian and left-wing attack dog Kathy Griffin began using her dead mother's Twitter account to continue doing battle with new Twitter owner Elon Musk after she was suspended from the social media platform Sunday for impersonating him.
\u201c@elonmusk I\u2019m back from the grave to say\u2026\n#FreeKathy \n#TipIt\u201d— Elon Musk (@Elon Musk) 1667775222
"I'm back from the grave to say ... #FreeKathy ..." the account for Griffin's late mother read Sunday evening. That was followed by the following message: "Apologize in advance for all the comments you’re gonna have to read about how ugly I am, and they’re probably gonna throw you in there, too. Oh, by the way this is KG. I’m tweeting from my dead mother’s account. She would not mind."
Musk, as he is wont to do, expertly trolled Griffin, noting on Twitter that "actually, she was suspended for impersonating a comedian" — a quip that's garnered nearly 450,000 likes and counting since Sunday evening.
He wasn't done:
\u201c@bennyjohnson @kathygriffin For $8\u201d— Benny Johnson (@Benny Johnson) 1667777736
Griffin gets all worked up
Griffin can be a relentlessly surly soul when she's offended. We're talking about someone who accused a non-celebrity of attending the Jan. 6 riots and reported the person to the FBI — all after this everyday individual called Griffin "despicable."
So you know she's obsessed with digging into Musk with her myriad claws.
After Musk joked that Griffin was "suspended for impersonating a comedian," she got predictably fired up:
\u201c@elonmusk @bennyjohnson @kathygriffin I mean\u2026 you stole that joke, you asshole. People have been posting that joke for hours, you hack.\nLook, please do a better job running this company. It used to mean something. \nThis is KG btw\u201d— Benny Johnson (@Benny Johnson) 1667777736
“I mean… you stole that joke, you asshole,” she wrote from her deceased mom's account. “People have been posting that joke for hours, you hack. Look, please do a better job running this company. It used to mean something. This is KG btw.”
Some other tries from Griffin:
\u201c@saraschaefer1 I honestly think it\u2019s because it\u2019s me, and because the tweets I was trying to write in his voice were pro democrats and had hashtags like #VoteBlueToProtectWomen and #voteblue and pro @BetoORourke etc.\nOh Sara, this is KG btw.\u201d— Maggie Griffin (@Maggie Griffin) 1667791219
\u201cElon, this is Maggie contacting you from the spirit world tell u\u2026you\u2019re a douchebag. This is not parody. This is the actual ghost of Kathy Griffin\u2019s boxed wine loving mother saying I\u2019m gonna get tipsy & throw my bingo cards at you! NOT A PARODY. \nTo the moon, a**hole. #FreeKathy\u201d— Maggie Griffin (@Maggie Griffin) 1667835391
The New York Post noted that Griffin "risks getting her mom’s account suspended too because Twitter’s 'ban evasion policy' clearly states that 'Twitter reserves the right to also permanently suspend any other account we believe the same account holder or entity may be operating in violation of our earlier suspension, regardless of when the other account was created.'"
Griffin's long line of nastiness
Back in 2017, Griffin was granted a short respite from her life on the D list after infamously posing with a fake bloody head of then-President Donald Trump during a photo shoot. She soon apologized in the wake of massive backlash, and the stunt earned her a visit from the Secret Service. Later that year, Griffin took back her apology.
As readers of TheBlaze know all too well, Griffin's nastiness is legendary:
- Earlier this year when Musk's deal to buy Twitter was going forward, she called him a "white supremacist."
- She was among scads of leftists who reacted with glee upon hearing the news Trump had contracted the coronavirus prior to the 2020 election, tweeting to Trump that she'd "like to volunteer to be your caregiver. I'm a patriot."
- After Trump's hospital release, Griffin said she wanted to see the him "croak" in the middle of a planned rally — and then settled for Trump falling into a "coma."
- Griffin even ripped a pair of black celebs — comedian Kevin Hart and actor Don Cheadle — for not being on board with her anti-Trump crusade.
Cops arrest man for allegedly impersonating a police officer, say he was pulling over vehicles for his YouTube channel
Utah authorities said this week that they arrested an 18-year-old man and charged him with impersonating a police officer.
The suspect, who remains unnamed at the time of this reporting, allegedly impersonated the officer for his YouTube channel, according to Insider.
What are the details?
The outlet reported that a person called the South Jordan Police Department on Monday and reported that a man in a car with red and blue lights affixed to it pulled several vehicles over for reportedly speeding.
The complainant told authorities that the suspect also pulled over a school bus.
A police affidavit states, "The complainant said he saw the suspect drive using red and blue lights impersonating a police officer and having vehicles pull off the side of the road. The complainant said the suspect had vehicles pull off the side of the road and driving very fast going onto oncoming traffic."
According to an affidavit obtained by Insider, police seized two airsoft guns — one reportedly resembled a handgun; the other, an AR-15 — and reflective gear from the suspect's home. The suspect purportedly told authorities that he was filming for his YouTube channel.
"I asked (him) what was going on and he said he was filming a video inside his Dodge Dart acting as a police officer for YouTube," a portion of the affidavit states. "(He) said he was driving over the speed limit and forcing vehicles off the road acting as a police officer for a video."
Insider reported that the suspect had also reportedly set up a roadside camera to capture the footage.
Authorities arrested the suspect on Monday and charged him with one count of reckless driving as well as one count of impersonating a police officer. He was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail that same day.