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Thursday, May 21, 2020
Could Coronavirus Help Amazon Workers Unionize?
By Nandita Bose and Krystal Hu
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Warehouse employees last month staged a walkout in Michigan to demand safer working conditions at their facility. So did workers in New York, Illinois and Minnesota.
These and other Amazon.com Inc employees across the country are seizing on the coronavirus to demand the world’s largest online retailer offer more paid sick time and temporarily shut warehouses with infections for deep cleaning.
Employees in at least 11 states this year have voiced their concerns and staged actions to highlight a variety of purported workplace deficiencies, allegations the company has denied.
Supporting these Amazon workers are labor groups and unions eager to penetrate the Seattle-based behemoth after years of failed attempts to unionize its operations.
Reuters spoke with 16 unions and labor groups targeting Amazon. They included established organizations such as the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), as well as newer worker advocacy groups like Warehouse Workers for Justice and Athena, a coalition of labor and social justice groups that have criticized Amazon’s business practices.
Most unions acknowledged their long odds at organizing Amazon using traditional tactics such as holding meetings and gauging interest. Legal hurdles to unionizing the company’s workplaces and mounting elections are steep. For now, many groups said, they are showing workers how to harness public opinion to shame Amazon into granting concessions.
The strategy proved effective in the national “Fight for $15” campaign to raise the minimum wage. Labor organizations in recent years helped retail and fast-food workers stage highly publicized protests and social media campaigns to draw attention to their modest pay at a time when the economy was booming.
Cities and states including Seattle, San Francisco, California, Arkansas and Missouri raised their minimum wages as did some large U.S. employers, including Amazon, which attributed its pay hikes to a tight labor market as well as pressure from lawmakers and labor groups.
In labor’s latest efforts targeting Amazon, organizations are helping workers create online petitions, connect with elected officials, contact media and file labor complaints with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The initiative puts public pressure on Amazon to respond, several groups said, while laying the groundwork for unions to recruit card-carrying members in the future.
“We expect that there will be more push for unionization when we get to the other side of this,” said Stuart Applebaum, president of RWDSU.
Amazon spokeswoman Rachael Lighty said Amazon already offers what these groups are requesting: $15 per hour or more to start, health benefits and opportunities for career growth.
“We encourage anyone interested in the facts to compare our overall pay and benefits, as well as our speed in managing this crisis, to other retailers and major employers across the country,” she said.
Central to the organizing effort, union officials said, is fear among some frontline Amazon workers over the spread of coronavirus in the company’s warehouses.
At least 800 workers in Amazon’s 519 U.S. distribution facilities have tested positive for COVID-19, based on internal company figures compiled by Jana Jumpp, an Amazon warehouse employee in Indiana, who shared the numbers with Reuters. Amazon sends text messages and automated calls to employees alerting them to positive cases in their facilities. Jumpp aggregates cases mentioned in messages sent to her by Amazon workers around the country.
Jumpp said the informal process she has developed likely misses cases. She and other employees said Amazon does not share a running tally of cases at each facility or provide a nationwide count.
“We have no idea how many people are actually sick, not tested or out on quarantine,” Jumpp said on a recent media call organized by Athena, the labor coalition.
At least six Amazon workers have died of COVID-19, which the company confirmed publicly after each incident.
Amazon’s Lighty would not disclose to Reuters the total number of Amazon employees who have tested positive for coronavirus in the United States. She said the company’s efforts to quarantine infected workers are helping to slow the spread, and rates of infection “are at or below the communities we’re operating in at almost all of our facilities.” Lighty did not provide data to support that claim.
A majority of Amazon employees are showing up at work and the company “objects to the irresponsible actions of labor groups and others in spreading misinformation and making false claims about Amazon,” she said.
Lighty said employee health and safety is the company’s top priority. Amazon will spend more than $800 million in the first half of the year on COVID-19 safety measures, she said.
Amazon over the past decade has eviscerated brick-and-mortar retail competitors, some of them unionized, while successfully fending off several attempts by its own employees to organize. With shutdowns now battering Main Street, Amazon is poised to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis stronger than ever.
The company reported record first-quarter sales of $75.5 billion, up 26% from the same period a year ago, as customers sheltering in place have relied on its services and its stock price has risen 35% since the start of the year.
Amazon had nearly 600,000 U.S. employees in 2019, according to its latest annual report, making it one of the largest employers in the country.
In 2019, 10.3% of U.S. workers were union members, down from 20.1% in 1983, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Over 33 million U.S. workers have filed for unemployment benefits in recent weeks, strengthening the hand of employers at a time of mass unemployment. Still, some labor experts said coronavirus presents unions with their best shot in decades to make inroads at Amazon.
“Justice issues and safety at work tend to be the most powerful arguments in organizing,” said Alex Colvin, a labor relations professor at Cornell University. “They’re the strongest reason for workers to want representation.”
He said unions have resorted to public relations as a tool to pressure companies as worker protections such as “collective bargaining and employment rights enforcement have weakened.”
FIGHTING UNIONS
Amazon has resisted unionization within its workforce since its founding in 1994. It defeated unionizing efforts in Seattle in 2000 and in Delaware in 2014 by a wide margin.
In recent weeks it has fired at least four workers in three states who had publicly criticized the company and were involved in organizing.
Lighty said Amazon has “zero tolerance” for retaliation. These workers were not terminated for talking publicly about working conditions or safety, but for violating policies such as physical distancing, she said.
Among those sacked was Emily Cunningham, a Seattle-based activist with Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, who gained prominence for pushing the company to do more to fight global warming. She had recently circulated a petition calling for measures such as improved sick leave and urged all employees to agree on a day in April to call in sick to protest warehouse working conditions.
“There is a lot of frustration on how Amazon is handling the issue of workplace safety,” Cunningham said. She said she has been in touch with the AFL-CIO about the sickout, and a local affiliate of the union called MLK Labor has offered support to continue the fight on working conditions. MLK Labor confirmed it is working with employees that Amazon fired in Seattle.
The AFL-CIO’s secretary treasurer, Elizabeth Shuler, said the union is using the pandemic to galvanize Amazon workers at company headquarters and enlist support from elected officials. Amazon had over 53,000 employees in Seattle in 2019.
“Amazon’s backyard is Seattle, and that’s a major focus for us in terms of how to take the energy, the courage, the activism that we are already seeing there and build that into a real movement,” she said.
Amazon’s Lighty said the company has listened to complaints and implemented over 150 measures to keep workers safe.
The company is also running television advertisements thanking warehouse workers. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in April showed up at a Texas distribution center and met workers to show his support.
NEW APPROACH
But a steady rise in the number of infections at warehouses has spurred more protests.
Amazon worker Mario Crippen led an April 1 walkout at a Michigan warehouse to protest what he said was a lack of transparency from the company about the number of infections. He said about 40 workers participated in that action at the facility in Romulus, about 24 miles southwest of Detroit.
Amazon disputed that figure, saying fewer than 15 people participated.
Helping Crippen was labor nonprofit United for Respect, which coached him on how to gain media attention without getting fired and use social media to gather more supporters. The group also offered legal help from attorneys if he was terminated.
Crippen, 26, whose job is to stow products at the warehouse, told Reuters he felt as if “somebody had my back.” He said at least 25 workers at the Romulus warehouse have tested positive, according to figures compiled by employees at the site. Crippen said some workers want the facility shut down for cleaning, and plan to continue protesting working conditions while exploring the idea of working closely with labor groups and unions in the future.
Amazon spokeswoman Lighty did not comment about the Romulus protest, the number of cases at the site or the company’s decision to not shut down the facility. She said Amazon’s decision to handle the closure of a building for deep cleaning depends on several factors, including consulting with health authorities and medical experts.
A spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Labor said the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA), received employee complaints about the Romulus site and sent a letter to Amazon listing steps the company “could take to correct the hazards.” She and MIOSHA would not provide more information.
Lighty did not comment on the details in the letter.
Some labor organizers are instructing workers on how to file such safety complaints. They are also using Facebook Live, Instagram posts, Telegram chats and WhatsApp messages to share other tactics with Amazon employees.
At Whole Foods, an upscale supermarket chain owned by Amazon, several current and former employees have been using Telegram to rally coworkers across the country to agitate for expanded paid sick leave and temporary shutdown of stores with confirmed COVID-19 cases.
“First step is to ask what will you do if our store is tested positive? Then form a committee. Plan actions. Document. Call the government,” wrote one of the workers, who confirmed sending the message and discussed the strategy with Reuters on condition of anonymity. The employee said the group has doubled to 400 members since the pandemic began. Reuters could not independently confirm the growth in membership.
This worker and fellow organizers are collaborating with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and are working under the name “Whole Worker’s National Organizing Committee.”
UFCW President Marc Perrone said the union is currently not focusing on the traditional playbook of getting employees to sign cards and become members.
“Right now …it is about showing workers value and what we can do for them,” he said.
(Reporting by Nandita Bose in Washington and Krystal Hu in New York, Additional reporting by Jeffrey Dastin in San Francisco; Editing by Vanessa O’Connell and Marla Dickerson)
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Canadian study suggests cannabis could help fight COVID-19
Scientists researching ways to mitigate the threat of COVID-19 think cannabis may be part of the solution.
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While there is still no cure or vaccine for the coronavirus, which has caused lockdowns all over the globe, researchers in Alberta believe marijuana might hold a secret to help curb the spread of the virus.
The study which was published on Preprints and conducted by researchers at the University of Lethbridge looked at over 400 THC and CBD-dominant strains and found that 13 of them— especially sativas high in CBD — helped down-regulate the protein receptor ACE2, which is targeted by the coronavirus in the mouth, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, and other parts the body.
The study concludes, “The extracts of our most successful and novel high CBD C. sativa lines, pending further investigation, may become a useful and safe addition to the treatment of COVID-19 as an adjunct therapy. They can be used to develop easy-to-use preventative treatments in the form of mouthwash and throat gargle products for both clinical and at-home use.
Such products ought to be tested for their potential to decrease viral entry via the oral mucosa. Given the current dire and rapidly evolving epidemiological situation, every possible therapeutic opportunity and avenue must be considered.”
In laymen’s terms: there are some strains of weed that interact with the same receptors COVID-19 would, which means consuming them could reduce your chances of contracting the virus by as much as 73 percent.
But please note these are only preliminary findings that have yet to be tested on humans and validated by a peer-review.
READ MORE: All 50 states partially reopen despite at least 17 seeing rise of coronavirus cases
Cannabis Might Block COVID-19 Infection, Study Shows. Smoking weed won't make you coronavirus-proof, but these researchers might be onto something. https://t.co/qVdzt8LkR3
— D.K.R. Boyd (@ReflectingMan) May 17, 2020
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Australian street artist Lushux claims he was hospitalized over 50 Cent murals
Over the past few months, a street artist known as Lushux has been blessing random walls with murals that mashup 50 Cent with other prominent celebrities. His work has blended Fiddy’s features with other famous faces like Donald Trump, Taylor Swift, and Post Malone, among others.
50 Cent has made no secret that he’s not a fan of the hilarious works of art, and on Wednesday, he took to social media to react to the latest piece, a mashup of his face with Mike Tyson’s above the words “50 Thent.”
“This guy need a ass whoopin bad, he still doing this shit. #STARZ #BMF,” he posted along with a snapshot of the mural.
READ MORE: 50 Cent threatens ‘to find’ Australian artist who keeps putting his face on insulting murals
Not long after, Lushux shared a photo of himself in a hospital bed, apparently bloodied from a beating he says he received as a result of Fiddy’s post.
“50 seems to want some more walls? Unfortunately some 6 or 7 smoothebrains at one time on the street already put me in hospital already this month because of this shit.
I dont like to bring up all the bad stuff I have to deal with just to paint some ha ha funny you laugh now images on walls but I guess now is a chance,” he posted on Tuesday.
“I constantly have to unwillingly fight people ( among other insane shit you would not believe even if I told you ) on the street who for whatever cooked reason seem to feel the need to come up to me at a wall and start trouble. It’s tiresome, but it will not ever stop me doing what 99.8% of what everyone else seems to for the most part get a hearty chuckle out of, because they aren’t sociopathic pieces of shit.”
READ MORE: Ja Rule is ready for an Instagram Live battle against 50 Cent
It wasn’t long before 50 Cent responded, insisting he had nothing to do with the attack.
“The artist got [punched] in the [face] that wasn’t me i didn’t do that,” he wrote.
Lushux responded by making it clear he doesn’t blame Fiddy for the beating.
“Just to clarify i dont blame mr cent for getting jumped, I blame violent video games. We gotta ban that shit already. 🚫 #lecheminduroi#bransoncognac, he wrote.
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FedEx accused of firing Black driver after confrontation with white customer
Two FedEx employees claim they were fired after posting a video of a confrontation with a white customer, however, the delivery giant claims that’s not entirely true.
The men who have only been identified as “Antonio” and “Felinzay” recorded the man after they dropped a package at his home. They shared in a series of tweets that the customer ran out of his house cursing and screaming at the drivers. According to Antonio, “We just apologized but he kept escalating the situation then kept saying he would whoop [our] Black a**es.”
READ MORE: Ramona Hood appointed first Black woman FedEx CEO
In a tweet posted as an update to the story, one of the men stated, “FedEx called and told me to take down this video and fired both of us Today .. I’m reposting this video because people like him doesn’t matter white or any race should never disrespect essential workers putting their lives in jeopardy especially with this covid-19“
Update FedEx called and told me to take down this video and fired both of us Today .. I’m reposting this video because people like him doesn’t matter white or any race should never disrespect essential workers putting their lives in jeopardy especially with this covid-19 pic.twitter.com/Fw0S5gNRso
— antonio (@Toniob38) May 20, 2020
However, in a report from NewsOne who obtained a statement from the company, they stated that the men were working through a third-party and that they remain employed.
“FedEx takes extremely seriously any allegations of discrimination, retaliation, or improper employment actions,” the statement said in part. “These individuals are employed by an independent service provider and FedEx will be conducting a thorough investigation into these claims. While we conduct this investigation FedEx will provide employment for these drivers.”
The original tweets claim that the man began to record them while threatening them. He then told his wife to call the police. “(They) came and we told our side of the story & the man said to the police ‘they look like they would’ve broke into my house while my wife is there’ the white dude was lying the whole time.”
The men claim, “We go through this all the time.”
READ MORE: Black delivery man blocked by white men in gated community in Oklahoma
In 2018, an Oregon man died after he hurled racial slurs and threw a punch at a Black delivery person. The employee punched the man back and he later died. No charges were filed against the driver involved in the incident.
A GoFundMe page was set up for the two men stating they were fired for “simply doing their job.” The fundraiser has raised upwards of $50,000.
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Citi Announces Partnership With National Banking Association To Buy PPP Loans
Citi announced a partnership program Wednesday with the National Banking Association (NBA) to create a purchasing facility allowing it to buy loans from Minority-Owned Depository Institutions (MDIs).
According to a Citi press release, its purchasing facility will assume up to $50 million in Small Business Administration loans from MDIs. The partnership will provide NBA member banks with capital by enabling them to sell loans originated under the PPP to Citi in the secondary market.
The purchases will move the loans off the MDI’s balance sheet and over to Citi. The servicing of the loans will go through NBA banks and MDIs participating in the program can retain 100% of the fees earned through the loan with the SBA.
“Our country needs banks of all sizes to serve businesses of all sizes and from all communities. Citi actively partners with minority-owned banks to support their vital efforts to serve their diverse client base, and we applaud the work they did to ensure that the benefits of the PPP program reached minority-owned businesses,” Michael Corbat, CEO of Citi said in the release.
One of the African American-owned banks that will benefit from the program is Unity National Bank, which already has a partnership with Citi.
“We are pleased to participate in this asset sale with Citi. Unity was one of the first MDIs to solidify terms on this important initiative as we have witnessed firsthand how this pandemic has been felt most acutely by small business owners in the communities where we operate. By moving these loans off our balance sheet, we are able to redeploy capital into further assisting our customers and supporting our local economy,” said Laurie Vignaud, CEO of Unity National Bank.
Additionally, Citi has announced that it will donate its net profits earned through its own participation in the PPP to the Citi Foundation. The foundation will use the funds to support its Community Development Financial Institutions, delivering recovery capital to help underserved communities.
The program will complement the Citi Foundation’s COVID-19 U.S. Small Business Relief Program. A $7.5 million effort to support Community Development Financial Institutions to serve small, diverse entrepreneurs.
Citi has also started a $150 million effort to support African American businesses.
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Birmingham Is Combatting COVID-19 With This Unique Service Program
Cities across the country have been severely impacted by the spread of the COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, pandemic. The city of Birmingham, Alabama, is home to the fourth-largest African American population in the nation, which is also one of the groups most impacted by the virus. Because of the disorganized approach of the federal government, restrictions and relief services can vary state by state and city by city. In Birmingham, the city has been making strides in combatting the coronavirus using a unique partnership inspired by a decades-old service program.
The Birmingham Service is the only program of its kind in America. It was modeled after the Works Project Administration (WPA) from the New Deal Era under Franklin D. Roosevelt and is a part of a new public-private partnership called Bham Strong, a two-part economic stabilization strategy aimed at fortifying small businesses and works to help the community amid COVID-19.
“From the beginning, we have refused to fight just an economic crisis or a public health crisis. Instead, we have acknowledged that we must combat both,” said Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin in an interview with BLACK ENTERPRISE about the city taking a different approach to the viral outbreak. “We have listened to feedback from public health experts and residents concerning economic insecurity. This data involves face coverings, emergency small business loans, and curfew ordinances. We are now going beyond survey data and interviewing residents to understand what they want and how this crisis is going to affect them not just today, but also down the road.”
The Service Corps was meant to be a more active approach to handling the crisis similar to how the city handling the Great Depression recovery. The goal is to enlist recently unemployed workers as paid volunteers for temporary jobs to help meet basic community needs that have emerged as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
“First and foremost, the Service Corps has enabled us to offer work opportunities to those who’ve lost jobs during this crisis. We believe this crisis displaced workers who do not want to sit on the sidelines,” continued Mayor Woodfin.
“They want to stay in the game, which is why we deployed people in a variety of ways to help serve needs in our community. That includes screening public housing residents, interviewing residents to understand their needs and distributing school supplies and school meals. We also believe this approach will give people useful skills in the long term to help build their careers. The Birmingham Service Corps has served as a nimble workforce and framework to address emerging needs.”
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Workplace Diversity is Still a Major Problem Although Nearly 80% of HR Professionals Believe Their Company Is Diverse
Just 17% of workers at companies across America support increased recruiting of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, a new survey by Clutch shows.
Simultaneously, merely 20% of employees value hiring women in leadership positions and just 14% find value in boosting LGBTQ awareness and sensitivity at their companies.
The findings are thought-provoking as Clutch’s new data about diversity in the workplace overall revealed that 79% of people believe their company is diverse. However, observers contend employees perhaps are misjudging the strength of their company’s diversity status greater than what it actually may be.
While a diverse workplace may not seem like a top concern for companies in today’s business climate, Clutch maintains it should be. Clutch content writer and marketer Seamus Roddy also reported that “as businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic, they are more likely to use remote technology and training to diversify their workforce.”
The survey showed 74% of employees believe their workplace is committed to improving diversity. Yet, if only 17% of that sample believe that recruiting underrepresented groups is valuable, it shows that there’s a massive disconnect in people’s minds about diversity, a Clutch spokesperson says.
Clutch surveyed 505 human resource professionals in January to learn if they consider their workplace diverse and which business diversity initiatives are important to them. Notwithstanding COVID-19, 57% of people report their company has become more diverse in the past year. Experts contend this may stem from U.S. businesses employing workers from different countries as well as a larger, diverse American workforce altogether.
With some 79% of people believing their workplace is already diverse, a Clutch spokesperson noted, that may suggest in employees’ minds they’ve already “finished” with diversity. That could mean that they don’t see any value in heightening racial/ethnic diversity, women in leadership, or LGBT sensitivity.
People overestimate the diversity of their workplace for a couple of reasons, Faizan Fahim, content marketing lead for IT firm ServerGuy, told Clutch. Here’s why:
1. The company is diverse in some ways but not others
A company may have a balance of male and female employees and people from a range of races and religions. But, if the business doesn’t employ workers of varying ages and sexual orientations, it may not be as diverse as employees believe.
2. Employees think one employee represents the entire company
Workers who are familiar with even a single colleague who is LGBTQ, from a different country, or from an underrepresented group may consider their business diverse because of that employee. In reality, a strong level of diversity goes beyond one employee’s experience.
Other intriguing statistics showed some 19% of those surveyed are unsure if their company is devoted to diversity in 2020. Plus, only 8% believe their company isn’t bound to creating a more diverse workplace this year.
And training is the top initiative HR professionals want at their companies. Roughly a quarter of people (24%) say their preferred diversity initiative is employee diversity training and discussions where they work. Businesses may do well to find guidance from companies taking such actions. Take major consulting firm Accenture for instance.
Clutch reported Accenture approaches diversity training via these distinct categories:
- Diversity Awareness: Helping people understand the benefits of working with a diverse team.
- Diversity management: Working to help leaders manage diverse teams
- Targeted professional development: Enabling women, LGBTQ people, and racial minorities to build the skills needed to do their jobs well.
Accenture uses that strategy to educates employees about the benefits of diversity, assists management with hiring remote teams, and bolsters the skills of traditionally underrepresented groups, Clutch reported. Accenture has been consistently cited on the Black Enterprise’s 50 Best Companies for Diversity list.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
‘Empire’ star Bryshere Gray sued by landlords for $26K in dog damage
Empire may have ended but the drama hasn’t stopped for star Bryshere Gray who is being sued by his landlords for $26K in dog damage.
READ MORE: ‘Empire’ star Bryshere Gray arrested in Chicago
TMZ obtained legal documents and reports that Vinod Venugopal and Payal Shah rented him a condo in their four-unit Chicago complex last August. However, they are now alleging that Gray, who also goes by Yazz the Greatest, did not treat the residence with care.
The actor, who played Hakeem Lyons on Empire, is accused of leaving his dog inside the home for long periods of time who then defecated all over the place. Furthermore, the animal was also left unattended in other common areas, urinating and defecating there as well.
The landlords are now claiming damages to their hardwood floors, stairs, and other parts of the property because of the dog but Gray’s behavior is also being called into question.
He’s accused of jumping in and out windows, flushing condoms down the toilet and smoking weed, which is not allowed. Venugopal and Shah also claim that Gray would indulge in unsanitary practices such as eating breakfast in the unit’s bathrooms.
They included pictures of the property damage which they assessed at $26,120 and are also suing for an additional $7,000 for attorney fees. TMZ attempted to contact Gray and his attorneys but there was no response.
Charlie Mack, Gray’s manager, told TMZ that the star was diagnosed with ADHD, a chronic condition that includes attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness, years ago “and unfortunately this [is] a result of that.” However, Mack insisted that his client is “a great person.”
Mack also said he was disappointed that Gray’s landlords chose to handle the dispute through the courts and media.
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“There is money inside of his security deposit that should rectify whatever issues the landlord has. [It’s] sad that the landlord has chosen this way to handle this but we will do what is needed to make sure it is taken care of.”
The lawsuit is another public mishap for the actor who was arrested last June in Chicago for driving his 2014 Rolls-Royce without a license or insurance. He was booked on a misdemeanor charge and released.
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