Ngo Okafor on Law and Order
I just took this picture on the set of Law and Order:SVU. It’s going to be
a long night! I play the SWAT team leader. My team gets to gear up and shoot stuff. Keep an eye out for it.
ON SET, PLAYING THE SWAT TEAM LEADER FOR LAW & ORDER: SVU
November 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
MY PART ON LAW AND ORDER:SVU, SHOOTS TONIGHT: HARD WORK PAYS OFF
November 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
As the first full week of normalcy after hurricane Sandy draws to a close, I have a lot to be thankful for. As I pray for the people who lost their lives and property to the storm, I am thankful for making it through without any damage. The climate is changing and we have to take this into consideration as we make future decisions. Due to the fact that I did not lose power during the storm, I was able to dedicate several hours each day to the design of my charity, Champion Spirit Foundation’s website, www.championspirit.org . It took a lot of work, but I’m thankful and happy to say that website is now finished and is live. Please check out www.championspirit.org to check out the work we are doing in Nigeria.
I auditioned for a part on Law and Order a few days before the storm and while the storm was going on, I received an email informing me that I booked the part. For that, I’m very thankful and excited. My part shoots tonight. It will be a very long day today. I have to work all day, carve a few hours for my own workout, then head to set to shoot al night. It’s cool because I’ve never been scared of hard work. HARD WORK ALWAYS PAYS OFF!!!!!
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BARACK OBAMA REACTS AS SUPREME COURT STRIKE’S DOWN ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW
June 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Both President Obama and his critics found things to like about the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Arizona immigration ruling, and both said it points to the need for new national legislation on the issue.
In a statement saying he is pleased, Obama cited the fact that the court struck down most of Arizona’s law, including a provision that allowed police to stop people on suspicion of being illegal immigrants.
“What this decision makes unmistakably clear is that Congress must act on comprehensive immigration reform,” Obama said. “A patchwork of state laws is not a solution to our broken immigration system — it’s part of the problem.”
In another statement, Gov. Jan Brewer, R-Ariz., praised the part of the court’s decision upholding a provision allowing officers to check the papers of suspected illegal immigrants, calling it “a victory for the rule of law.
“It is also a victory for the 10th Amendment and all Americans who believe in the inherent right and responsibility of states to defend their citizens,” Brewer said.
The court ruled in the midst of a presidential campaign in which immigration — and the growing Hispanic vote — is playing a major role in the race between Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
Romney, who is doing fundraising in Arizona today, said the decision underscored the need for a new immigration law, something he said Obama has failed to deliver. He did not address the specifics of the Supreme Court ruling.
“I believe that each state has the duty — and the right — to secure our borders and preserve the rule of law, particularly when the federal government has failed to meet its responsibilities,” Romney said.
Obama has said that congressional Republicans, pushed by their Tea Party allies, have blocked a comprehensive immigration bill.
On a 5-3 vote, the Supreme Court objected to a part of the law that had given police officers wide latitude to stop people suspected of illegal immigration.
The justices did uphold an Arizona provision that said police officers must check the immigration status of people they detain or arrest before they can be released; the court also said this rule could be subject to future challenges if it is enforced in a discriminatory manner.
The court struck down parts of the law requiring all immigrants to carry registration papers, making it a crime for an illegal immigrant to seek work or hold a job, and allowing police to arrest people without warrants upon suspicion of being illegal immigrants.
Justice Elena Kagan — appointed by President Obama — did not participate in the decision because she had been involved in the case as Solicitor General.
The Obama administration sued Arizona over the law, variations of which have been passed in five other states: Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah.
The Arizona law intensified a political clash over immigration policy.
One side — including many Republicans — want to tighten border protection; the other — including Obama — wants to combine tighter borders with a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are already in the United States.
The law also produced a highly publicized, finger-wagging dispute between Obama and Gov. Brewer, who signed the Arizona immigration plan into law.
Obama said immigration problems require a comprehensive national approach, rather than a piecemeal, state-by-state approach such as the one in Arizona.
Brewer and other proponents of the law said Arizona had to act because the federal government has shirked its responsibilities.
Earlier this month, Obama said his administration will stop deportations of the children of illegal immigrants.
Romney, who backs many of the GOP calls for an enforcement approach, has not said whether he would repeal Obama’s order, saying he would pursue a complete overhaul of immigration policy.
From USA Today
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NEW LAW: SEX OFFENDERS MUST LIST “SEX OFFENDER” STATUS ON FACEBOOK
June 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law’s author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation.
State Rep. Jeff Thompson, a Republican from Bossier City, Louisiana, says his new law, effective August 1, will stand up to constitutional challenge because it expands sex offender registration requirements, common in many states, to include a disclosure on the convicted criminal’s social networking sites as well.
Thompson, an attorney and a father of a 13-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son, said he hopes other states will follow Louisiana.
Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been removing sex offenders from their web pages for years, but Thompson said the law is designed to cover any possible lapses by social networking sites.
“I don’t want to leave in the hands of social network or Facebook administrators, ‘Gee, I hope someone is telling the truth,’” Thompson said Tuesday. “This is another tool for prosecutors.”
The new law, signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal earlier this month, builds upon existing sex offender registration laws, in which the offender must notify immediate neighbors and a school district of his or her residency near them, Thompson said.
The law states that sex offenders and child predators “shall include in his profile for the networking website an indication that he is a sex offender or child predator and shall include notice of the crime for which he was convicted, the jurisdiction of conviction, a description of his physical characteristics… and his residential address.”
Several states now require sex offenders and child predators to register with authorities their e-mail accounts, Internet addresses or profile names to social network and other web sites, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. A few states such as Illinois and Texas even outright prohibit sex offenders, as a condition of parole, from accessing social networking websites, the group said.
The Louisiana law is the latest addition to statutes requiring public notice and registrations by sex offenders, Thompson said.
“It provides the same notice to persons in whose home you are injecting yourself via the Internet,” Thompson said. “I challenge you today to walk down the street to see how many people and children are checking Pinterest, Instagram and other social networking sites. If you look at how common it is, that’s 24 hour a day, seven days a week for somebody to interact with your children and your grandchildren.”
Facebook applauded the new Louisiana law, even though it “will have no direct” effect on its service, the company said in a statement to CNN.
“Our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities already bars registered sex offenders from using Facebook,” the firm said. “We take the safety and security of our users, especially the many young people on Facebook, very seriously. We have consistently supported legislation to help strengthen law enforcement’s ability to find, prosecute and convict online sexual predators.”
Violators of the new law could face imprisonment with hard labor for a term between two and 10 years without parole and a fine up to $1,000. A second conviction carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment with hard labor for a term between five and 20 years without parole and a fine up to $3,000.
Thompson consulted prosecutors and the attorney general in Louisiana when drafting the law because last year, a federal court struck down a Louisiana law that outright banned sex offenders and child predators from using Internet. The court found the law too broad, Thompson said.
Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana sought to block the enforcement of that state law that tried to limit sex offenders’ use of the Internet, arguing that it infringes on constitutional rights. The law had targeted registered sex offenders convicted in crimes involving children and prohibited the “using or accessing of social networking websites, chat rooms and peer-to-peer networks,” according to the legislation that was signed into law in June 2011.
Louisiana lawmakers, however, have not given up on that stricter law. In fact, a revised version was passed by the Louisiana legislature and signed into law in May, but Thompson is skeptical that latest version can survive a court challenge. The revised, new ban prohibits certain registered sex offenders from intentionally using a social networking website, Gov. Jindal said in a statement.
Said Thompson about that new law: “It may very well fall under scrutiny and attack. That’s one of the reasons that I created the bill I did. I’m not trying to create a ban. I’m just trying to create an expansion of the existing notice requirements.”
From CNN.com
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CHARLY BOY AND NATIONAL MIRROR FIGHT ON: MIRROR THREATENS TO EXPOSE RECORDED INTERVIEW
June 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This fiasco between recording artist, Charly Boy, and the National Mirror newspaper in Nigeria is getting crazier by the minute. All this back and forth is making readers’ heads spin. First came the news from the National Mirror that Charly Boy, in an interview with the paper, said that he was gay. Then Charly Boy makes a statement saying that he is not gay and that he intends to sue the paper for slander.
Now, The National Mirror is threatening to expose the tape recorded interview with Charly Boy in which he says that he is indeed gay. Well is he is or is he ain’t….GAY? That is the question. We may never know. What we do know is that we have not heard the last of this fight. Media outlets are having a field day with all this back and forth. Stay tuned for more.
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