Menu CommentJesse Daniels faces four counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child after he interrupted the vandalism of his father-in-law's home. He reportedly locked the four vandals, ages 8 and 10, in a closet until police arrived.Daniels allegedly saw someone using a hammer and hitting the walls of the renovated property. He went next door and discovered the kids tearing up the property. After taking away the hammer, Daniels locked the boys in a closet to wait until police arrived.While the boys face criminal charges of Burglary in the Second Degree and Criminal Mischief in the Second degree, their parents have filed charges against Daniels. They claim that Daniels was aggressive with the children and threatened them with the hammer.
Lee Daniels’ Fox music drama “Empire” will be entering its sixth and final season later this year. The broadcast network announced in May the final season for one of its flagship series, but.
It's unclear whether he will actually face jail time, since the investigation is ongoing and District Attorney Richard Healy said he does not have enough information yet.' One person was just sitting on the floor and the other ones were swinging, just swinging crazy,' Daniels told News. 'So I grab the one hammer and the other three (boys) got hammers. Now I don't know what to do here, I said, 'You guys put the stuff down, what are you doing?'
Now they're startled because now they're caught.' 'I was fortunate that they were in that room that had a closet, so I put them in the closet. I said, 'Listen, you guys are staying here until the police come. Period,' Daniels explained.He believes the boys attacked the property in retaliation for being kicked off the property while riding dirt bikes. In addition to causing destruction, they also painted derogatory words on the walls.' It just looked like a bomb went off, it really did. I can't believe the power that it took to send electrical outlets six inches into the wall.
I'm very happy the children didn't get hurt because porcelain shatters. Any one time they could've been blinded, they could've been slashed in the throat with a piece of porcelain.' 'I understand they were in the wrong, but there are other ways to handle it,' one of the boys' parents, Paul Bowler, said. 'He (Daniels) knew who the kids were; it's not like they were strangers.
Send the kids home and call the cops. You don't sit there are torment them and tell them you're going to bash their skulls in with a hammer.' Daniels said he hopes the children learned a lesson and will no longer cause problems.
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With a tweet, “Empire” co-creator Lee Daniels has confirmed embattled star Jussie Smollett’s fate on the musical drama.Daniels declared on Tuesday that the actor, who is accused of staging a hate crime against himself, will not be returning for the sixth and final season of the Fox series.The showrunner tweeted the news in response to a Variety report that “Empire” writers were preparing for Smollett’s return on Season 6. The story cited multiple production sources.“This is not factual. Jussie will NOT be returning to Empire.LD,” Daniels wrote. The decision to remove him came amid the uproar that erupted when police said that the January attack Smollett reported as a hate crime was actually a hoax staged by the actor for personal gain.Daniels and co-creator Danny Strong had been among of Smollett when police initially said the actor, who is black and gay, was.Viewers last saw Smollett’s character, the openly gay Jamal Lyon, marrying his partner in a glitzy wedding. His later absence on the show was explained via to him honeymooning, and it seemed that the Jamal chapter of the series had ended. Smollett has played Jamal since the show debuted in 2015.Smollett has maintained his innocence, and the 16 felony charges of disorderly conducted against him in March.