{"id":8059,"date":"2011-06-30T16:32:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8059"},"modified":"2011-06-30T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T19:10:30","slug":"patti-labelle-files-countersuit-in-beating-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8059","title":{"rendered":"Patti LaBelle Files  Countersuit In  Beating Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 Veteran R&amp;B diva <strong>Patti LaBelle<\/strong> says in a countersuit filed against a West Point cadet who claims she ordered her bodyguards to beat him up outside a Houston airport terminal that the altercation began after the cadet hurled racial insults at her. But an attorney for the cadet,<strong> Richard King<\/strong>, denied his client ever said any racial slurs to <strong>LaBelle<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LaBelle<\/strong> filed a countersuit last week, accusing the cadet of attacking her bodyguards after he directed profane and racial slurs toward the singer.<\/p>\n<p>In the countersuit, <strong>LaBelle\u2019s <\/strong>lawyers accuse <strong>King<\/strong> of being intoxicated, staggering around outside the terminal, screaming obscenities and trying to enter the singer\u2019s limousine.<strong> King<\/strong> was politely asked to walk away from the vehicle, according to the countersuit. <strong>King\u2019s<\/strong> attorneys have said the cadet had a few drinks on the flight to Houston but denied he was intoxicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 Veteran R&amp;B diva Patti LaBelle says in a countersuit filed against a West Point cadet who claims she ordered her bodyguards to beat him up outside a Houston airport terminal that the altercation began after the cadet hurled racial insults at her. But an attorney for the cadet, Richard King, denied his client [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}