UPDATE: “Kony 2012” director detained for masturbating in public
A NEW, close-up video of Jason Russell’s nude meltdown in San Diego has been posted on TMZ. It shows the Kony 2012 campaigner pounding the ground, swearing and shouting about the devil.
Russell is being held in a psychiatric ward. His wife, Danica, has suggested he could not cope with the attention and pressure after his Kony 2012 video went viral and received widespread criticism.
The Ugandan government has weighed in now, too, uploading their own video on YouTube to contest claims made in Russell’s 29-minute long film. “The Kony 2012 campaign fails to make one crucial point clear. Joseph Kony is not in Uganda”, Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi says in the video.
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JASON RUSSELL, the Christian hipster dad behind the “Kony 2012” viral video campaign, has reportedly been hospitalised after masturbating in public and smashing up cars in San Diego.
According to reports from NBC San Diego and TMZ, the 33-year-old co-founder of the Invisible Children charity was allegedly found running through traffic in speedo-like underwear, screaming and vandalising cars. He was possibly under the influence of something.
The CEO of Invisible Children, Ben Keesey, told TMZ that “Jason Russell was unfortunately hospitalized yesterday suffering from exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition”.
#Horny2012 and #Bony2012 promptly started trending on Twitter, with jibes about Russell, a married father-of two, making his own unborn children visible.
TMZ acquired footage which allegedly shows Jason Russell in the midst of his public breakdown at 11.30am local time on Thursday.
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Invisible Children Movement Director Zach Barrows, right, speaks with video editing intern Shannon Lynch about her work on the KONY 2012 project Thursday March 8, 2012 in the groups office in San Diego. Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army, a brutal Central Africa militia that has kidnapped thousands of children and forced them to become sex slaves, fight as child soldiers and kill family members during a 26-year campaign of terror. The KONY 2012 project is an effort to stop Kony. (AP Photo/John Mone)
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