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Roda Osman is as related in as we speak’s information cycle as she was when her story first took over Al Gore’s web again in September 2023.
BOSSIP has been masking the newest developments within the story that seem to have extra holes in it than Kanye West’s grungy trend period. That mentioned, the viral lightning rod stepped into The Shade Room to refute a number of the information that has lately come out about her. Simply final week, it was introduced that Houston authorities need to arrest Osman for felony theft by deception below the pretense that she raised over $40,000 on a GoFundMe marketing campaign that was, as the youngsters say, “cap”. Initially, KPRC reporter Bryce Newberry revealed that Osman was presupposed to have a gathering with police however by no means confirmed up. That is one in every of a number of claims that she refutes through TSR:
“I’m not on the run. Everyone seems to be making an attempt to extort me for cash. I’m looking for a correct lawyer to give up with. I stay up for my day in court docket to struggle these bullsh** claims and retribution from Officer Thorton for reporting her for misconduct. Once more, I stay up for my day in court docket!”
In response to the video that investigators obtained exhibiting Osman and her accused attacker Olan Douglas embroiled in a bodily argument that doesn’t coincide together with her description of the occasions, Osman maintains that Douglas, Houston PD, and the speaking heads on social media have all enacted varied types of violence in opposition to her…
“However Olan Douglas harmed me. Social media harmed me. Blogs harmed me. HPD has harmed me. I’ve been abused and revictimized and now I’m being held to a degree of scrubby that’s harmful to all.”
Whereas the small print of this case have gotten a bit clearer, there are nonetheless opaque elements that want straightening. We’re undecided if that straightening will ever come to gentle, nonetheless, folks from the skin are dug-in on their place and it doesn’t look like the introduction of latest proof is prone to change their minds.
Keep tuned for the subsequent episode of As The World Burns.
