Posted on 02/23/2024 4:59:11 PM PST by thegagline
A Clark County judge in hot water for posing in a tub with public defenders faces a new ethics charge after seemingly saying a defendant, who is Black, had good reason to run from police, documents said.
***Clark County District Court Judge Erika Ballou violated judicial ethics twice: once in 2021 and once in an incident the 8 News Now Investigators reported in 2022.
In the 2021 case, commissioners said Ballou “excused a defendant’s decision to flee from police in a vehicle pursuit on the Las Vegas Strip… [chastising] the prosecutor stating, ‘[a]nd there being no reason to run from the police, clearly you’re not a Black person in the United States of America, because there are absolute reasons to run from the police.’ Later in the sentencing hearing, Judge Ballou explained, ‘[s]o just as someone who, you know, has lived in the United States as a Black person, that’s absolutely an untrue statement that he didn’t have any reason to run.’”
In July 2022, the Las Vegas Police Protective Association, the union representing Metro police officers, called for Ballou’s resignation as well as an ethics investigation after she made comments about police officers during a separate sentencing cited in Wednesday’s complaint.***
“You’re the one making the decisions not to walk away from cops. You’re a Black man in America. You know you don’t want to be nowhere where cops are,” Ballou said. “You know you don’t want to be nowhere where cops are ’cause I know I don’t, and I’m a middle-aged, middle-class Black woman. I don’t want to be around where the cops are because I don’t know if I’m going to walk away alive or not.”
In 2016, Judge Ballou refused to remove a Black Lives Matter pin after a judge ordered her to.
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What are you saying? Black women aren’t allowed to use hot tubs? ;-)
That fat white dude either has a big bank account or a big unit.
Fatigued of them.
Was the word salad headline written by Kamala Harris?
Was the word salad headline written by Kamala Harris?
I’ll read it all again. Maybe second skim, it will start to gel together as something logical.
Nice.
The black woman is the judge.
The fat guy and the redhead are...wait for it...public defenders.
There are three sets of t*ts in that tub.
These corrupt misfits have infiltrated every level of government.
She's bumping bellies with public defenders in a hot tub and you don't see any possible ethics issues or worse? Is she sitting on the bench trying these public defenders cases?
oh bs- just watched yet another video of a black woman who backed into a white man's car- pulled forward, rammed his car again- he got out- she backed into him several times- all caught on camera- takes off- cops decide not to arrest her and issued a statement similar to "Due to the nature of video, we don't know if we are gettign the full picture- therefore there will be no charges"
This was in Los Angeles - which is also where i believe there was video of a gun battle in the middle of traffic, where the prosecutor refused to bring charges claiming that it was just 'two gangs in dispute' or some such crap-
Herte it is:
"Chicago Prosecutor Drops Charges In Massive Gang Gunfight, Claims ‘Mutual Combat’"
"Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx opted not to charge those involved in a midday gun battle between rival gangs in the Austin neighborhood on Friday that left one person dead and five more wounded.
Foxx’s office released five suspects in a deadly shooting that occurred on Oct. 1 after refusing to charge the men with first-degree murder or any other felony, the Chicago Sun-Times reported."
sorry- it was in chicago where the gang muder happened in broad daylight- plenty of video identifying the perps/murderer and other shooters- video showed the whole thing-
The following unreal statement was said about the incident in chicago-
“prosecutors had “determined that the evidence was insufficient to meet our burden of proof to approve felony charges,” (from same link as above)
Well now that you explain it, yes ethical problems.
But it wasn’t clear from the headline or lead in.
As a 20+ year Freeper I’m exempt from having to read the entire article before posting snark 😇
where does it all end
I'm afraid...
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