Bodycam video captured Georgia probate judge Christina Peterson physically assaulting and hitting an Atlanta police officer and refusing to identify herself when she was arrested.
The footage ended with the 38-year-old Douglas County Judge handcuffed and put in the back of a police car on Thursday.
The police officer was trying to control a situation after a security guard working at Red Martini Restaurant and Lounge was evicting another woman outside at around 3. am.
Christina Peterson yelled at the officer “Let her f–cking go, let her f–cking go,” while pushing him twice and swiping at his hands.
The cop took down Peterson to the ground, handcuffed her, and walked her into the back of his police cruiser.
He then asks for her name before taking her to the station but Peterson would not oblige.
“You don’t need an identification,” she said angrily. “You have picked up dead bodies when you don’t know who bodies it was, but you picked them up. Take me where you need to take me”, she responded.
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Another part of the footage shows Peterson in the police station where she complains about the way the officer handled her. She was later moved into a police vehicle where she learned of her charges – simple battery against a police officer and obstruction of a law enforcement officer charges.
The police also stated in their report that Christina Peterson who reportedly was found guilty of “systemic incompetence” and a disregard for the law, by a judicial panel in April 2020, was intoxicated at the time.
In defense, her legal team claims she was only playing a good samaritan. According to her lawyer, Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr., Peterson was trying to defend the woman who police said was being escorted outside the nightclub because she was “viciously” attacked by an unidentified man.
Since assuming the post of Douglas Country’s probate judge back in 2020, Peterson have had about 50 charges bordering on ethical misconduct such as abusive conduct towards county personnel and obstructing access to public records slammed against her, 20 of which have beendismissed.
The other woman being taken out was identified as Alexandria Love.
According to a press conference, Love said the trouble started when the yet-to-be-identified man accused her of jumping the line to a food truck.
“He viciously attacked me, punched me in my face and Judge Peterson was the only one to help me,” she claimed.
Peterson who referred to her arrest as a set up was later released on a $5,000 bond and ordered not to contact law enforcement and to stay away from Red Martini.
“Wow. They will stop at nothing to tarnish my character. God help us! We need justice”, she wrote on Instagram.
