<p>An illegal immigrant has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 16-year-old Texas high school cheerleader named Lizbeth Medina, whose slain body was discovered in a bathtub in her home by her mother this past week.</p>
<p>Jacqueline Medina found her daughter, whom she described as “loving, kind and big-hearted,&#8221; in their apartment on Tuesday after Lizbeth missed a Christmas parade with her cheer squad in Edna, Texas.</p>
<p>“There was no laced drugs, there was nothing like that. My daughter was found in a way that no mother should ever find their child,” Jacqueline <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/10/news/person-of-interest-sought-in-death-of-texas-teen-cheerleader-lizbeth-medina-found-inside-apartment/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “I lost it. She was my world, my everything. Everywhere, everything I do was for her.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Words can’t explain what I felt at that moment finding my daughter in the matter that she was,&#8221; she added. &#8220;All I can say is that I hope with all my heart that there is justice for my daughter.”</p>
<p>The circumstances of Lizbeth&#8217;s death remain unclear, and currently no autopsy report has been made public.</p>
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<p>The Edna Police Department on Sunday confirmed that an &#8220;undocumented male&#8221; named Rafael Govea Romero has been arrested in connection to the murder. The department described Romero as &#8220;the person responsible for the death of [Lizbeth] Medina.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Edna Police Department and Texas Rangers immediately traveled to Schulenburg where Romero was placed under arrest for Capital Murder and transported to Jackson County Jail,&#8221; the department&#8217;s release <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064563557667" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Although Romero is apprehended, we recognize Lizbeth&#8217;s family and friends are grieving and still need support from the community. The citizens of Edna can now sleep in peace!&#8221;</p>
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<p>A fundraiser for Lizbeth, created by her aunt Ana Medina, <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/lizbeth-medina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> the teen &#8220;is loved and will be missed by the family.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;She was born and raised in Grand Island, NE, and had only been living in Edna, Texas, for a year,&#8221; Ana posted. &#8220;She was the only child to her mother Jaqueline Medina; she also leaves behind two loving grandparents Refugio Medina and Yesenia Medina (Yeyo and Yeya), whom she loved and considered them as parents.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;As a family we are asking the community for help to not only get Justice for my sweet Lizbeth but for any support that you can offer to my family at this time anything is appreciated,&#8221; the post added. &#8220;We would also like to thank everyone in the Edna community that has been supporting us in this difficult time.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-authorities-dropped-off-42000-illegal-immigrants-on-san-diego-streets-since-september" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Border Authorities Dropped Off 42,000 Illegal Immigrants On San Diego Streets Since September</a></strong></p>


Rafael Romero

Illegal Immigrant Arrested In Connection With Murder Of 16-Year-Old Texas Cheerleader

Illegal Immigrant Arrested In Connection With Murder Of 16-Year-Old Texas Cheerleader Lizbeth Medina

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<p>A Louisiana police officer has been arrested and charged after striking a vehicle during a high-speed chase that left two high school cheerleaders dead.</p>
<p>David Cauthron, 42, was charged with two counts of negligent homicide on Sunday in the incident that killed Maggie Dunn, 17, and Caroline Gill, 16. Dunn&#8217;s brother, Liam Dunn, a freshman at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, was also left in critical condition after the crash.</p>
<p>18th Judicial District Attorney Tony Clayton <a href="https://www.wbrz.com/news/addis-police-officer-arrested-for-negligent-homicide-after-high-speed-pursuit-left-innocent-teens-dead" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> WBRZ-TV that Cauthron has been placed on administrative leave from the Addis Police Department. Cauthorn was reported as in custody as of Monday afternoon.</p>
<p>The chase occurred after Tyquel Zanders, 24, was accused of stealing a family vehicle. He reportedly entered a home, shoved his father down, and took the keys to a 2016 Nissan Altima, the Advocate <a href="https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/addis-officer-charged-for-teens-crash-deaths-during-chase/article_12b4b040-8a4c-11ed-9fba-33552d78f0ab.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.</p>
<p>Zanders was pursued by Cauthorn, with the outlet noting that the Altima was moving at about 80 miles per hour on Government Street and 110 miles per hour on Interstate 10. The police vehicle reportedly ran through a red light and did not apply brakes before striking the vehicle the two cheerleaders were in.</p>
<p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-16" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html">&#8220;For these kids to not to have been able to start the New Year is inexcusable, but we&#8217;ll follow the facts first,&#8221; Clayton told the outlet. &#8220;I just can&#8217;t put my arms around why (the officer) was driving at that rate of speed in pursuit of this vehicle. This officer is facing some serious issues.&#8221;</p>
<p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html">&#8220;If it involves putting human life in danger, stop the damn pursuit. It&#8217;s just not worth the risk,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>The car theft suspect was later apprehended after the vehicle stalled. Zanders faces counts in Baton Rouge of home invasion, theft of a vehicle, and aggravated flight, according to Baton Rouge police. He could also face manslaughter charges connected to the deaths of the two teenagers, the outlet added.</p>
<p>The Brusly High School cheerleading team paid tribute to their fellow cheerleaders in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=546655410841189&amp;set=a.467212282118836&amp;type=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook post</a> on Sunday.</p>
<p>“As we mourn the tragic deaths of Maggie Dunn and Caroline Gill please keep their families, friends, and the BHS community in your thoughts and prayers,” the cheerleading team posted. “Their enthusiasm and bright smiles will be missed more than can be imagined.”</p>
<p>Brusly High School Principal Walt Lemoine said that Dunn&#8217;s mother and sister work at the school and that Gill&#8217;s older sister is a senior.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are saddened by the loss to our school community and will make every effort to help you and your child as you need,&#8221; Lemoine <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=658995136015814&amp;set=pb.100057160012475.-2207520000." target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.</p>
<p>The school held a vigil on Monday evening and an assembly on Tuesday morning as students returned to campus.</p>


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Police Officer Charged In Crash That Left Two High School Cheerleaders Dead

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<p>A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">transgender</a> cheerleader, who is a biological male, was criminally charged last week for allegedly choking a female teammate at a cheerleading camp.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/trans-cheerleader-kicked-camp-allegedly-choking-female-teammate">Fox News</a> reported that the incident occurred at Ranger College in Texas after the female teammate allegedly called Averie Chanel Medlock &#8220;a man&#8221; and said that Medlock should not be on the team.</p>
<p>&#8220;Well guys I’m officially retired as a cheerleader as of last night at 5:30 AM. A girl on the team was being very disrespectful and told me I am a MAN with a PENIS and that [guys] should not be on the team,&#8221; the transgender cheerleader, Averie Chanel Medlock, reportedly posted on Facebook.</p>
<p>&#8220;I stood up for myself and she called her mom and dad because she was scared because I [stood] up for myself. Her father said, ‘she still has testosterone and a penis and I will kill anyone who comes after my daughter.’&#8221;</p>
<p>The report said that Medlock claimed the cheerleader made transphobic and racist remarks before the alleged incident happened and that video showed other cheerleaders hiding from Medlock.</p>
<p>Medlock reportedly said the alleged attack on the female cheerleader was a joke. Nevertheless, law enforcement officials charged Medlock with assault and removed Medlock from the campus.</p>
<p>The father of the female cheerleader who Medlock allegedly attacked is now demanding that law enforcement release all relevant video footage from the incident.</p>
<p>The father defended his actions in a post on social media, <a href="https://www.outkick.com/transgender-cheerleader-reportedly-chokes-female-cheer-camp-attendee/">writing</a>: “I ask you what you would have done when receiving a phone call at 1 o’clock in the morning from your daughter stating they had locked themselves in the room with other girls.”</p>
<p>The father added that he never made any remarks about Medlock’s “race or gender.”</p>
<p>The incident comes as the issue of biological males competing against biological females in sports has dominated news headlines for the last couple of years, including the most recent high profile case involving University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas.</p>
<p>In a recent Fox News interview, University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/swimmer-who-competed-with-lia-thomas-at-ncaa-championships-no-one-warned-us-he-would-undress-with-us">spoke out</a> against Thomas&#8217; involvement in the sport, saying that when the college women competed against Thomas at the NCAA championships, they were not “forewarned” that Thomas would be sharing the locker room with them and undressing in front of them.</p>
<p>“People just weren’t really talking about it. And so we get to NCAAs, it was at Georgia Tech, and so we get there, and the environment is nothing like I’ve ever seen before,” Gaines recalled. “It was so, like, almost edgy. Like people didn’t really know what to say, who to say what to, how to feel.”</p>
<p>“This was on day one,” she continued, “and then that night we watched Lia Thomas win a national title and blow all the other females completely out of the water. And that next day we came back and the mood had shifted to where people were mad. The girls, you know, there were tears, these poor ninth and seventeenth place finishers who missed out on being named an All-American, there’s extreme discomfort in the locker room.”</p>
<p><em>Hank Berrien contributed to this report. </em></p>


NCAA Final Four – West Virginia v Duke

Trans Cheerleader Booted From Camp For Allegedly Choking Female Teammate: Called Me ‘Man With A Penis’

Trans Cheerleader Booted From Camp For Allegedly Choking Female Teammate

Transgender Athletes

<p>A biologically male cheerleader who identifies as female has been added to the NFL&#8217;s Carolina Panthers cheerleading squad.</p>
<p>Justine Simone Lindsay made the announcement this week via Instagram, and Panthers TopCats cheerleading director Chandalae Lanouette <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paigeskinner/justine-lindsay-nfl-first-trans-cheerleader">confirmed</a> the move to BuzzFeed.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a moment I will never forget and I cannot wait to show you all what this girl has to bring,&#8221; Lindsay posted online, captioning a photo from the field.</p>
<p>The league&#8217;s first openly trans cheerleader described the general response to BuzzFeed. “I just felt like when I posted it, whatever reaction I get from everyone, it does not matter,” Lindsay said. “And then my phone started blowing up.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Cats Out the Bag you are looking at the newest member of the Carolina Panthers TopCats Cheerleader’s [TopCats] as the first Transgender female,&#8221; the Instagram post said. &#8220;I would like to thank the beautiful and talented dancers who supported me along the way alumni TopCats family and friends for your love and support. I would not have gotten to this moment in my life if it wasn’t for the support. Also to my beautiful coach [Chandalae Lanouette] you are a special being that I truly cherish thank you taking that leap of faith on me to be apart of your legacy and so many others.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a moment I will never forget and I cannot wait to show you all what this girl has to bring,&#8221; the post added. &#8220;Thank you [TopCats] a dream come true.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Lindsay captioned another post, &#8220;Dreams are reality/Dreams can manifest by putting in the work/Dreams can be accomplished with a focused mind body and spirit/This is my reality this is my story/Own it believe in it and everything will fall into place.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Lanouette said she was aware Lindsay was transgender by the cheerleading application but insisted it was Lindsay&#8217;s &#8220;talent,&#8221; not the cheerleader&#8217;s &#8220;history-making&#8221; that landed Lindsay a spot on the squad, the BuzzFeed report outlined.</p>
<p>“My goal is to create a team of individuals that are absolute fire on the field but are incredible human beings in the locker room, good friends, good people, and at the end of the day, you have to walk through the door first to get to that spot,” Lanouette said.</p>
<p>“I’m happy because I was able to break down that door and tell people, ‘Hey, we are not just sexual beings,’” Lindsay said. “‘We are actual human beings who want to better ourselves.’ I felt like, <i>Why not tell the world:</i> <i>&#8216;Hey, listen, this is a great accomplishment.&#8217;</i>”</p>


NFL: OCT 10 Eagles at Panthers

NFL’s Panthers Add Transgender Cheerleader To Roster: Can’t ‘Wait To Show’ ‘What This Girl Has To Bring’

NFL's Carolina Panthers Add Transgender Cheerleader To Roster: Can’t ‘Wait To Show’ ‘What This Girl Has To Bring’ 

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<p>A cheerleader for St. Bonaventure University walked off the court during the game in the Atlantic 10 men&#8217;s basketball tournament, one cheerleader, Hannah Koning, later said that a Saint Louis University basketball team player was verbally abusive to her during the game.</p>
<p>“A dramatic moment of the incident&#8217;s footage shows the cheerleader walking away from St Louis fans, who were allegedly taunting her. While another woman, believed to be Koning&#8217;s coach, was seen talking to what appears to be a security guard on the court,” The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10617775/St-Bonaventure-cheerleader-storms-NCAA-game-basketball-court-allegedly-insulted.html">reported</a>.</p>
<p>An SB Nation affiliated account called Mid-Major Madness tweeted, “What looks like a Bonnie cheerleader and coach has just stormed over to the Billikens players flipping them off. Wild.” A follow up tweet referenced St. Louis freshman guard Jordan Nesbitt.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I guess Nesbitt was talking trash all game and then went over at the end and said something.</p>
<p>&mdash; Mid-Major Madness (@mid_madness) <a href="https://twitter.com/mid_madness/status/1502399464845320194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Koning tweeted, “This was after he looked me dead in the eyes, an innocent cheerleader, and told me to “shut the f*** up b****” embarrassing.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This was after he looked me dead in the eyes, an innocent cheerleader, and told me to “shut the f*** up b****” embarrassing <a href="https://t.co/0NAR6FHnST">https://t.co/0NAR6FHnST</a></p>
<p>&mdash; HK🖤 (@HannahhKoning) <a href="https://twitter.com/HannahhKoning/status/1502405043236093956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>An account that follows the Atlantic 10 commented, “Would be awesome if the @atlantic10 investigated this. No room for players to be saying things like this to anyone during a game.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Would be awesome if the <a href="https://twitter.com/atlantic10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@atlantic10</a> investigated this. No room for players to be saying things like this to anyone  during a game</p>
<p>&mdash; A10 Talk (@A10Talk) <a href="https://twitter.com/A10Talk/status/1502406964378230785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Mid-Major Madness added, “For anyone who is wondering what happened at the end of the Bonnies/Saint Louis game, Jordan Nesbitt had been chirping the Bonaventure cheerleaders all games, calling them disgusting names. He came up at the end and said some more. There’s zero room in the game for that. Nasty.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">For anyone who is wondering what happened at the end of the Bonnies/Saint Louis game, Jordan Nesbitt had been chirping the Bonaventure cheerleaders all games, calling them disgusting names.</p>
<p>He came up at the end and said some more. There’s zero room in the game for that. Nasty.</p>
<p>&mdash; Mid-Major Madness (@mid_madness) <a href="https://twitter.com/mid_madness/status/1502425080151875587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Nesbitt is currently averaging 8.2 points per game this year. He has not been disciplined over the allegations as yet.</p>
<p>In March 2021, Black Lives Matter protesters badgered young cheerleaders while they entered the Kentucky International Convention Center in downtown Louisville for a cheer competition.</p>
<p>The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/blm-protesters-harass-young-cheerleaders-over-their-white-privilege-organizer-stands-by-actions/">reported</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>One of the protester leaders Carmen M. Jones, who said Sunday that she stands by her comments, yelled at the girls for their “white privilege” and told one of the women with the cheerleaders that she better “make sure your kids aren&#8217;t somebody my kids are gonna have to beat up.”  “The reason why you get to be here in these pretty little gorgeous outfits and your gorgeous hair and your gorgeous bows is because of your white privilege,” Jones <a href="https://www.wdrb.com/news/controversy-over-protest-held-outside-of-louisville-cheerleading-competition/article_db1fe5b6-7fb0-11eb-b12b-879f078d0586.html">said</a> over a megaphone to the girls. &#8230; </em></p></blockquote>
<p>A <a href="https://www.facebook.com/1207562969/videos/10226929476162052/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Facebook livestream from Tara Bassett</a> with 502 livestreamers captured the incident, WDRB <a href="https://www.wdrb.com/news/controversy-over-protest-held-outside-of-louisville-cheerleading-competition/article_db1fe5b6-7fb0-11eb-b12b-879f078d0586.html">reported.</a></p>
<p>The Daily Wire added:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Pushing back against the harassment, one of the women said in the direction of the protesters, “They&#8217;re yelling at our girls for no reason.”  Jones responded to the complaint, “I am on your a**, I am on your a**, you cannot come through that door without me being on your a**.” &#8230; </em></p>
<p><em>A father of cheerleaders who went only by Rob told WDRB that the protesters “were badgering&#8221; the girls “all the way in the door.” His oldest daughter, he said, “cried for about an hour” over the incident. “You could see it affected all these kids,” Rob said.</em></p></blockquote>


2022 A10 Men’s Basketball Tournament – Saint Louis v La Salle

‘Shut The F*** Up B****’: Cheerleader Storms Off Court; College Player Accused Of Verbal Abuse

College basketball

<p>A Pennsylvania mother has been arrested after sending doctored images of her teenage daughter’s cheerleading rivals to her coaches, as well as sending those rivals threatening messages.</p>
<p>PennLive <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/03/pa-woman-created-deepfake-videos-to-force-rivals-off-daughters-cheerleading-squad-police.html?outputType=amp">reported</a> that Raffaela Spone, 50, was “charged with two misdemeanors, Hilltown Township Police officers said. Spone is facing three counts of cyber harassment of a child and three counts of harassment.”</p>
<p>&#8220;The suspect is alleged to have taken a real picture and edited it through some photoshopping app to make it look like this teenaged girl had no clothes on to appear nude, when in reality that picture was a screengrab from the teenager&#8217;s social media in which she had a bathing suit on,&#8221; said Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub.</p>
<p>Last year, a police investigation determined that Spone had sent the teenagers threatening text messages as well, including urging the young girls “to kill themselves,” the girls told police.</p>
<p>Police were contacted last July by the parents of one of Spone’s teenage victims, saying they and their cheerleading coaches had received text messages with images of the young girls naked, drinking, and smoking vape, the Philadelphia Inquirer <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cyberbullying-deepfake-20210312.html">reported</a>. The images Spone allegedly made were of at least three members of the traveling cheerleading squad known as Victory Vipers. The parents also said they received harassing text messages, all from an anonymous number. The parents contacted police because they believed the fake images and videos could get their daughter kicked off the team.</p>
<p>Two more families came forward once police began investigating. Other victims were sent photos of themselves in bikinis with the caption “drinking at the shore.”</p>
<p>“After analyzing the videos, detectives determined they were ‘deepfakes’ — digitally altered but realistic looking images — created by mapping the girls’ social media photos onto other images,” the Inquirer reported. “Detectives traced the phone numbers to a website specializing in selling them to telemarketers, and followed the data to an IP address that showed activity from within Spone’s house in Chalfont. After searching Spone’s smartphone, detectives found evidence linking her to the numbers used to send the harassing texts and images, the affidavit said.”</p>
<p>Police believe Spone took action against the girls after their parents told them to stop hanging out with Spone’s daughter over concerns about her behavior, in an attempt to get the other teenagers kicked off the team. George Ratel, the father of one of Spone’s alleged victims, told the Inquirer he was dismayed by the situation and how it affected the team.</p>
<p>“I don’t know what would push her to this point,” Ratel told the outlet. “As a dad I was pretty upset about it. It’s an image put out there of my daughter that is simply not true.”</p>
<p>At this time, it appears Spone’s daughter had no idea this was happening.</p>
<p>Spone was released following her release on the condition she appear for a preliminary hearing set for March 30. The Inquirer reported it does not appear she has hired an attorney yet.</p>


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Mother Arrested After Creating ‘Deepfake’ Images Showing Teen Daughter’s Cheerleader Rivals Naked, Drinking

Harassment

<p>The longest-running group of cheerleaders for an NFL team, founded in 1962, is no more.</p>
<p>The Washington Football Team, formerly known as the Redskins, is replacing their cheerleading squad with a coed dance ensemble. The Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots already have men on their cheerleading squads.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, former Laker Girl manager Petra Pope was hired as an adviser for the dance team. She told <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2021/03/03/washington-replacing-cheerleading-team-with-coed-dance-team/43449315/">The Associated Press</a>, “I&#8217;ve been asked to create a more modern entertainment team that is inclusive and diverse. We just want to follow that mode of being more modern and a more modern franchise. Change is difficult, but I do feel that the fans will love what we bring to the table.”</p>
<p>“My focus is really just reinventing this team,&#8221; she added. &#8220;My goal is to create this team, reinvent this team and make it more modern.”</p>
<p>The Washington cheerleaders were known as the “First Ladies of Football.” The squad had been the subject of reports in prior years involving team employees making inappropriate videos from calendar photo shoots.</p>
<p>Team president Jason Wright said the change in the cheerleading status was not a result of allegations against the team of sexual harassment.</p>
<p>“The off-season gives us the opportunity to rethink the status quo,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The last year, we&#8217;ve created an enhanced online fan experience, and we&#8217;ve seen how effective our new media properties and modern approaches have been in engaging fans even when they can&#8217;t be at the games. The time is right to reimagine our entire gameday experience to reinvent it in a way that reflects our modern identity and aligns with what today&#8217;s fan seeks. Coach [Ron] Rivera has done an incredible job on the field. We will elevate our off-the-field product to match.&#8221;</p>
<p>Last summer, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/16/redskins-sexual-harassment-larry-michael-alex-santos/?arc404=true">two</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/26/redskins-cheerleaders-video-daniel-snyder-washington/?arc404=true&amp;itid=lb_daniel-snyders-ownership-of-the-washington-football-team_2">different </a>Washington Post reports spoke of at least 15 women claiming sexual harassment or other hostile workplace incidents regarding club employees, nearly all of whom departed before or immediately after the accusations were revealed.</p>
<p>Among the charges were accusations that director of pro personnel Alex Santos had made inappropriate remarks to six former employees and two reporters; team radio play-by-play announcer Larry Michael making sexually disparaging remarks and allegedly ordering employees to edit a video of behind-the-scenes outtakes from a 2008 calendar shoot; assistant director of pro personnel Richard Mann II telling a female colleague that he discussed with other employees whether she had undergone plastic surgery on her breasts; and president of business operations Dennis Greene requesting female sales staffers to wear revealing outfits and flirt with season ticket holders and suite holders, according to the Daily Mail.</p>
<p>In 2018, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/sports/redskins-cheerleaders-nfl.html?smid=tw-nytsports&amp;smtyp=cur">The New York Times</a> reported that some Washington Redskins cheerleaders taken to Costa Rica in 2013 for a calendar photo shoot were required to go topless, and had no idea that male sponsors and FedExField suite holders were granted access to watch them pose nude from the waist up.</p>
<p>The Times wrote that the cheerleaders first thought something might be awry when Redskins officials collected their passports upon arrival at the adults-only Occidental Grand Papagayo resort on Culebra Bay, which left them without official identification. Some of the cheerleaders were topless; others wore nothing but body paint, according to the Times. None of the pictures were used in the calendar.</p>
<p>The Times reported that one night, the squad’s director informed nine of the 36 cheerleaders that they were to serve as personal escorts for some of the male sponsors at a nightclub. The director allegedly said, “So get back to your room and get ready.” Some cheerleaders started to cry. One recalled, “They weren’t putting a gun to our heads, but it was mandatory for us to go. We weren’t asked, we were told. Other girls were devastated because we knew exactly what she was doing.”</p>
<p>The cheerleaders said they were not asked to have sex with the sponsors, but they felt as if the situation was “pimping us out.” The cheerleaders were not paid for the trip, although transportation costs, meals and lodging were covered.</p>


Washington Cheerleaders

First Cheerleading Squad In NFL Replaced By Men/Women Dance Team

Washington

<p>According to the former cheerleading director for the then-Washington Redskins, owner Daniel Snyder once allegedly told him in 2004 that if he didn&#8217;t keep the cheerleaders “skinny with big t***,” then he would “f*****g kill&#8217; him.”</p>
<p>That claim from former cheerleading director Donald Wells was made to attorney Lisa Banks, who along with fellow attorney Debra Katz is representing 12 former cheerleaders who are suing the owner and the team for salacious videos made of the cheerleaders showing their nipples and private parts. Attorney Gloria Allred said she represents 20 more ex-cheerleaders.</p>
<p>Wells, who led the cheerleading squad from 1997 to 2009, said, “I would never have told anyone about that if it weren&#8217;t for the revelation that the videos were created of my cheerleaders without their knowledge. I was embarrassed and scared if I said anything I might be fired,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/10/16/washington-cheerleaders-video-lawsuit/">The Washington Post</a> reported.</p>
<p>The lewd videos in question were produced from outtakes of the cheerleaders&#8217; 2008 and 2010 swimsuit calendar shoots. They featured rock music as the underscore, including hits by the Rolling Stones and U2.  The Post pointed out that Snyder had said the two bands were his favorites in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/post/dan-snyder-is-a-prankster/2011/05/27/AGVHLmCH_blog.html">2011 interview</a>.</p>
<p>“Then-senior vice president Larry Michael told broadcasting staffers to produce the videos, according to two ex-employees, one of whom said the footage was to be assembled for team owner Daniel Snyder. Snyder and Michael have denied any knowledge of the videos, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/26/redskins-cheerleaders-video-daniel-snyder-washington/?arc404=true&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_16">copies of which were obtained by The Post</a>,” The Washington Post noted.</p>
<p>The NFL met with Katz, then launched an investigation. This week, the Washington Football team agreed to permit an “independent forensic investigation” to obtain any of the copies of the videos. The team stated, “Like many companies and organizations, the Washington Football Team is examining its historical practices and behaviors. We take the criticisms of our cheerleading program seriously and we remain committed to reviewing all programs thoroughly.”</p>
<p>The Post noted, “The decisions to pose topless or in body paint were their own, former cheerleaders said,” but explained that the cheerleaders were required to sell at least 50 calendars, and the cheerleaders felt that the racier the shoot was with them in it, the more likely they could win a calendar “month” to propel them toward their individual sales targets.</p>
<p>An obstacle in the cheerleaders’ way in their lawsuit, according to the Post, is the fact that “the contracts covering the cheerleaders in the 2008 and 2010 videos give the team what appears to be unfettered permission to use the women’s names, voices and images ‘in connection with any and all publications, broadcasts, websites, web postings, promotional photographs, promotional posters, and any other commercial or noncommercial products, including but not limited to calendars, team photos, T-shirts, videos, Internet content, and team marketing and sponsorship activities and materials.’”</p>
<p>The Daily Wire reported in May 2018:</p>
<blockquote><p>According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/sports/redskins-cheerleaders-nfl.html?smid=tw-nytsports&amp;smtyp=cur">The New York Times</a>, some Washington Redskins cheerleaders taken to Costa Rica in 2013 for a calendar photo shoot were required to go topless, and had no idea that male sponsors and FedExField suite holders were granted access to watch them pose nude from the waist up.</p>
<p>The Times writes that the cheerleaders first thought something might be awry when Redskins officials collected their passports upon arrival at the adults-only Occidental Grand Papagayo resort on Culebra Bay, which left them without official identification.</p>
<p>Some of the cheerleaders were topless; others wore nothing but body paint, according to the Times. None of the pictures were used in the calendar.</p></blockquote>
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Former Redskins Cheerleading Director: Owner Said, ‘You Better Keep Them Skinny With Big T*** Or I’ll F****** Kill You’

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