I really just need a break this time, man. I'm serious. Like, I know I know that I'm doing What do I need to give you a break on? What is wrong with you? When a state trooper gives you a lawful order, you do it. This is wrong. You're going to get fired. On March 4th, 2025, a federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned a federal criminal indictment. This is the story of Kentucky State Police Trooper James Cameron Wright. He was charged with three counts. Two counts of using excessive force and one count of perjury, lying under oath. Once you had him on the ground, did you strike or hit him with a closed fist at all? No, sir. He did not need to be struck with my hands or any impact weapon. But the story of this guy should send a shiver down your spine. Everybody all the way to the very top of the Kentucky State Police leadership knew that this guy was a bad cop. So, the cover up goes all the way up to the current KSP commissioner. Even with full knowledge of Wright's propensity to commit unlawful violence and that he had lied about it under oath, instead of firing him, they gave him an award, trooper of the year. And as a result, he kept doing it over and over again, including to this guy, John Millet. And I'm going to show you the exclusive body cam footage of what he did to that guy that finally got him in real trouble. And only through the tenacity of a brilliant Kentucky civil rights lawyer, Chris Wuest, did the feds finally step in. I talked to Chris and he revealed massive systemic problems within the Kentucky State Police. You need to hear it for yourself and share it with your friends, your family, because this is unbelievable. [Music] It was March 12th of 2024 near the city limits of the town of West Point, Kentucky. Kentucky State Police Trooper James Cameron Wright was on duty in uniform in his marked patrol vehicle. Wright initiates a traffic stop for failure to signal. His dash cam is operating and it shows him stopping the vehicle and then getting out and approaching the driver. Upon contact, he begins to suspect that the driver, John Mlette, may be intoxicated. Lost, bub. Uh, I believe so. I was looking for Yeah, you seem like you you're pretty lost. Yeah, I was looking for somebody was selling something on Facebook and Oh, where you trying to get to? Um, it's You don't know where you're going without looking at your phone? No, I I was getting the address. Where were you trying to get to like in general? like mold road trying to get it was it was supposed to be my draw I think. Oh, you're going the wrong way then, bub. Oh, okay. You care to put the cigarette out while we're talking cuz it gets sucked out the window at me and I don't want to sit here and deal with smoke while appreciate it. No problem. Wright then asks Mr. Mlette for his driver's license and insurance. You got your driver's license insurance card on you? Um, I don't have insurance at the time. I just got my taxes and I'm uh looking for car insurance rates. Sure. Okay. I I'm I'm serious. I really No, I have a man I believe you and I And Mlette responds that he does not have insurance. And then he basically begs Trooper Wright, saying that he needs a break. I really just need a break this time, man. I'm serious. Like I I know that I'm doing Well, I need to give you a break on. I'm doing everything wrong. I don't have tags. I don't have insurance. Okay. I mean, I can deal with that. I don't I I'll be honest. I really I care about that stuff, but I couldn't care less about that compared to other things. You know what I'm saying? Like Yeah. Uh, nothing illegal inside the vehicle? No. Okay. Uh, so where are you trying to get to? My drone. Okay, I got you. Then Wright asks Mr. Mallette to turn his car off to which he complies. You don't care. Turn the car off for one second. Okay. Wright asks Mr. Mallette to step out of the vehicle so that he could talk to him. Wright then himself opens Mlette's door as Mr. Mallette begins to step out. All right, here. Step down. Talk to me real quick. Okay. No guns, weapons on your person? No. Trooper Wright yells at Mr. Mallette not to reach for anything as Mr. Mallette gently tosses an object that he had in his hands onto the passenger seat. Don't reach for anything. You understand me? Hey, you reach for anything. Mr. Mlette is seen on the body cam raising his hands and that he had a phone in his left arm. Wright grabs Mr. Mlette's right arm. Wright again tells Mr. Mlette to step out even though Mr. Mallet had already been doing so. Step out. With Trooper Wright having grabbed Mr. Mallette to control him and with Mr. Mallette having his cell phone in his left hand, Mr. Mallet's hands are still raised, demonstrating compliance. Look, I don't I was just grabbing my lighter. Even though Mr. Mlette did not resist Wright in any way. Wright bear hugs Mr. Mlette and violently throws him to the ground. Hey, I'm not even doing nothing wrong. Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. I'm not even doing nothing wrong. Get on your belly. And it was only going to get worse from there. What is wrong with you? When a state trooper gives you a lawful order, you do it. But to understand how we got to this point and how this very footage resulted in finally getting accountability against this trooper, we have to go back like 5 years on the timeline because this moment would not have happened but for all of the crazy things that happened before. Mr. Mlette's lawyer who filed a federal civil rights lawsuit just a few weeks ago is going to walk us through that timeline because he himself was the lawyer who was involved 5 years earlier in trying to hold that trooper accountable back then. March 6th, 2020, there is a chase of a gentleman by the name of Justin Halcom. stops his video, steps out, puts his hands on the on his truck, and he gets piled on um by KSP troopers, including right, you know, shove his head to the ground repeatedly and gratuitously, strikes him as he's been as he's piled on by multiple officers. You've got hospital um photos afterwards where Halcom is jacked up and bloody as a consequence of this. So that's March 6, 2020. April 2, 2020. Uh, Wright is involved in the apprehension of a guy by the name of Je uh, Thomas Davis. Davis is stopped. Wright opens the driver's door, throws him to the ground even though he wasn't actively resisting, and then he is repeatedly and gratuitously struck. What is interesting about both the Halcom and Thomas Davis incidents is they generate what is known as an RR report in KSP parliament, which is a response to resistance report. KSP policy is basically to criminally charge every single person that they beat or abuse with obstruction of justice or resisting arrest, specifically resisting arrest. Regardless of whether or not, this is in their policy, regardless of whether or not they in fact resisted. If you use force on somebody, you're going to charge them. It's a cover. The the the policy, the the cover up is embedded in KSP policy. It's insane. The lieutenant colonel that's in charge of operations is now the KSP commissioner. And in that capacity, he is reviewing the internal affairs recommendations on these response to resistance reports. And he signs off on and approves that there was no unlawful um use of force on both Davis and Halcom. Both of which a federal grand jury has found probable cause to arrest and charge these troopers with um criminal use of force. So the cover up goes all the way up to the current KSP commissioner, Philip Bernett. Philip Bernett, his signature is on these response to resistance reports. The guy who is now the head of the Kentucky State Police signed off on those uses of force as being justified or being lawful. And now five years later, a federal grand jury has indicted Wright for both of those uses of force. Correct. Got it. All right. timeline. April 9th, 7 days after the Davis incident, we've got the Alex Hornback incident, which you've reported on. I reported on, we've got the video. I They didn't know we had basement camera. They threatened mom and dad with arrest over the dad's cell phone video because they didn't want any of it captured. They both say they used no force even though we've got video of it, both Storski and Wright, under oath. The Hornbach arrest resulted in a civil rights lawsuit alleging excessive force that was filed by Chris Wuest. When Chris took these officers depositions, both Trooper Wright and also Trooper Zarski, neither one of them knew that Chris had this video from inside the home that showed them striking Mr. Hornbach. Since they did not know that proof existed that they did that, even though they were under oath at the deposition, they lied and said they did not strike him at all. Chris caught them red-handed committing perjury. Here you can see for yourself Trooper Wright lying under oath. Once you had him on the ground, did you strike or hit him with a closed fist at all? No, sir. Okay. Or or any part of your body? No, sir. Okay. And the reason that you didn't do that is that there was no more force that was required at that point in time to have affected the arrest, right? I He did not need to be struck with my hands or any impact weapon. Maybe the craziest part of the story is what happened afterwards. In that lawsuit, the federal judge calls out these two cops for lying. So, what do Kentucky prosecutors and the Kentucky State Police do as a result? Both cops, Wright and Zarski, lied about unnecessarily beating and striking Mr. Hornbach. But only Zar Torski was forced to resign and indicted on state perjury charges and ultimately convicted never to work as a police officer again. Given the fact that Wright did the exact same thing as Zarski, why didn't any of that happen to him? He was not fired. He was not forced to resign. He was not charged. In fact, he was given an award for trooper of the year. You could not make this up if you wanted to. Zarki ends up being, you know, ending his career with the KSP. He's put on um probation for uh state perjury charge. He's never allowed to hold a law enforcement career. He was in the military as an officer at the time in the National Guard. I believe part of his probation term is that had to end. So, he's taken out of positions of trust and confidence as a consequence of the perjury conviction. Right. Meanwhile, is allowed to continue and in fact is nominated by Bernett and others as uh trooper of the year with knowledge of all of this going on. Okay. So, he's the pedestal guy that they're holding up, the perjurer. The uh by the way, Wright was indicted for perjury by the feds recently uh for his same testimony in the Hornbach case. So, um, we've got all this going on and it's being covered up and in fact they're they're holding right up as the trooper of the year in or around that time uh with knowledge of all of this. By the way, one of the things that we've also um come to learn uh and this is in the um Mlette lawsuit is the person that was investigating these um post for use of forces, there's a sergeant. The sergeant, by the way, was himself the subject of multiple lawsuits. What is his name? Yeah, it's let me find it. Jeremy Mabe. Mab Yeah. So Mab's the immediate supervisor who is assigned to investigate most of these uses of force and generally he is um writing in repeated use of force investigations. The subject took a bladed aggressive stance and that justifies all these people getting jacked up and maybe is involved in the whitewash. um you know so that's also going on um and there's a pattern of it including um the investigation of Halcom and Davis both of which are the subject of federal indictments at this point how had whitewashed bladed aggressive stance so that's also going on March 12th 2024 we've got the incident with um my client uh Mr. Mlette, there is the traffic stop. I don't think there's any argument by us about the legality of the stop, nor is there argument by us about the legality of the arrest. It's somewhat apparent that, you know, he had been drinking a little. Um, and I don't think we take issue with that aspect of it, but we do take issue with the use of force. And so, Wright's got body warn camera. There's also some dash camera footage. My whistleblower, by the way, is prepared to testify that when KSP first got body cameras, one of the first people it was issued to was uh Cameron Wright because they knew he was out there tuning up citizens, you know, illegally, and they wanted, you know, to to kind of tone him down a little bit by getting him a body camera. It didn't stop him, obviously. So, turning back to the body cam footage showing what happened to Mr. Mallette at the hands of James Cameron Wright. Wright had thrown Mr. Mallette to the ground. Once on the ground, Wright demanded that Mr. Mallette place his hands behind his back. So, Mr. Mlette did that. He immediately placed his hands behind his back. Hey, you I'm not even doing nothing. Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. But then, Wright yells for Mr. Mlette to get on his belly. Mr. Mlette's hands are still behind his back at that point. I'm not even doing nothing wrong. Get on your belly. Wright then yells again for Mr. Mlette to get on his belly and less than a second later, get on your belly. Wright then deploys his taser. Wright's dash cam footage reveals not just one, but two separate deployments of his taser, where you hear popping noise for extended periods of time. Wright continues his taser deployment for approximately 10 seconds. Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. Do not move. You understand me? After Wright ceases taser deployment, Mr. Mlette flips to his stomach with his hands behind his back. What is wrong with you? When a state trooper gives you a lawful order, you do it. Do not move. You understand? You are under arrest. For what? For obstructing and now resisting arrest. No, I did. Your camera will show. Yeah. Do not move. Swear to God. It'll show. I can smell weed and I can smell alcohol. There ain't no [ __ ] weed in the car. Yeah, I can smell alcohol on you. No, you ain't got no right to start smoking and crying and these men do nothing wrong. I do nothing wrong. Mr. Mlette is then handcuffed and pulled to his feet. Immediately after that, Trooper Wright again gratuitously throws Mr. Mlette back to the ground, injuring him. Mr. Mlette complains and screams out due to severe shoulder pain. Do not dare try to go back towards that car. Ah! Why did you do this to me? My [ __ ] shoulder's broke, dude. It ain't broke. You just [ __ ] slam me. Stand up. You just slam me and I didn't even touch you. You tried to pull me back towards your car. No, I didn't. Quit pulling against me. You're going down. I have rights. This is wrong. You're going to get fired. No, you're drunk. I can still weave. And I'm about to search that car, so you better tell me what's in the car right now. Basically, he just escalates a routine traffic stop into into violence just like he's done in all these other incidents. Oh, yeah. I think we're now like case six or seven of this. Um, you know, that we know of and and frankly there's a lot more to it. My understanding is he has generated over a 100 use of force incidents, but you know, we're still investigating that. What happened with the criminal the criminal prosecution of Mlette? So, he was charged with resisting and everything else. um that gets uh knocked down. I think he pled to an open container charge and a reduced charge on the driving of influence charge. At what point was the use of force questioned in the the Mlette incident? Well, by KSP, they because Mlette goes to the hospital, right? Mlette um wasn't just tased. I think he was thrown twice and as a consequence of all of this um he's taken to Baptist Health for treatment. Ultimately he goes to the hospital. Um he's got a fracture of seven of his ribs, a dislocation on his left shoulder. Um obviously the you know when the taser strikes you twice and he was tased twice. Um that you know those probes go into your skin. It's like a barb that goes into your skin. So all that occurs um you know that's his physical injuries. um because he is taken to the hospital, they have to do an RR report. Um and there's discussion between him and the lieutenant at the scene. We think it's Lieutenant McKe, but I'm not 100% sure about that. So, I've sued all the lieutenants and they're they're talking about how Wright needs to respond to this to not, you know, to be to to not violate policy. Basically, they're talking about how it's on the the the camera at the hospital. There's this discussion lieutenant of like how to cover it up. That's pretty problematic. although that's part and parcel with what's going on at post 4KSB. So, um like I said, there's a pattern of practice issue here. Mlette's admitted to St. Mary's Hospital. We've got seven days of hospital admission records with all this treatment. Um and so, you know, all that's going on as well. He was he was hospitalized for seven days as a result of this. Yes. Damn. He's got he's got broken ribs. like, you know, I mean, he's, you know, he's he's he's significantly jacked up as a consequence of this. We're getting ready to sue and I was aware for a while that the ca that the um FBI was looking into Cameron Wright as early in Zorski as early as 2021. I might want to mention Sergeant May, we talked about him. He was sued in 2017 for a use of force incident and threatening to illegally arrest u um road workers. He was sued again. And this is the investigator, right? This is the guy that's holding people accountable. Sued again for excessive force and false arrest and Turner v. Mave in 2020 in federal court. So like I mean who's policing the people that are supposed to please the police like when they're getting sued themselves? So you know there's a there's a problem here. And then he did it again a few months after Mlette to what? This Blevens guy. Yep. The Blevins. All right, M. Stay back real quick. I ain't got to get out of here. A typical traffic stop last June turned tense when a Kentucky trooper turned his taser on Dawson Blevens. I was thinking he wasn't going to stop tasing me. A lawsuit filed Monday claims trooper James became aggressive when Blevens didn't want to get out of the car. Eventually did and that's when the situation escalated. Oh, on video, Blevens is tackled and taped multiple times while expressing to Wright he can't comply with his orders. Put your hands behind your back. He was then maed. Put your hands behind your back. Yet another case of him taking the just a routine traffic stop and when somebody doesn't respond quickly enough, you know, throwing them on the ground violently and tasing them. Yep. Yeah. I mean, that's the pattern in MMO by this guy. If you look um at the Second Amendment complaint that's been um tendered, a lot of that information, particularly in paragraphs um 77 through um 98, discuss what the command staff knew of, how there was the systemic cover up that we're prepared to substantiate that by way of testimony. We got a KSP insider that's willing to point the finger um all the way up the chain of command uh on this and you know it's it's a problem. I don't know why they they are undertaking cover up as opposed to you know trying to clean up the organization appropriately training troopers on active versus passive resistance. Like I mean the rot is all the way to the top and you know it it's unfortunate because I mean KSP for a long time always had this gold standard in Kentucky. I do think the accountability's got to run to the top. Um you know and I'd love to get some systemic changes in how they train, how they handle um resistance response. They went out, I don't know if you know this, this was in the complaint true story uh substantiated by open records requests. They went out and spent money on a new tracking system in place um with other organizations um called IA Pro. They spent more than $100,000 for IIA Pro software and it would allow tracking of like these E42 incidents that now they're covering up. They decided not to do that because they don't want tracking within KSP of these use of force incidents to be able to demonstrate pattern and practice. Like this is this is not sort of a hey I'm at the top. I'm busy. I didn't this didn't catch my attention. This is I am making deliberate decision-m to cover up serious misconduct all the way to the top of the organization. Cameron Wright, he gets criminally charged by the United States Department of Justice. I mean, they, by the way, when they came in, like, it's not just the local US attorneys that are part of this. If you look at the appearance, there are attorneys from main justice, the criminal division, um, the civil rights division, criminal section. I think there's four or five of them that have been assigned to this. Like, like this has gotten the attention of Washington DC. It's been that bad. They're indicting Cameron Wright. KSP leadership is signing off on the same incidents. Like there's a disconnect. Is Wright still employed by the by the Kentucky State Police? He is employed. They put him on paid leave is my understanding pending the criminal outcome. So even the indictment was not sufficient to end his employment. He is being paid. This my understanding he's being paid by the taxpayers to sit at home right now while his criminal charges are pending. Wright was indicted by the way just just so I can be clear for the March 5th incident on Mr. Halcom use of force excessive use of force for the March 12th incident on my client uh Mr. Mallette. So that's number two. That's the second use of force and for the perjury incident in the um uh Hornback case. Those were the three charges that have been in federal charges against Cameron Wright. Um, I think I've run because I was curious what his sentencing guidelines would be if he's convicted on all three, assuming he doesn't plea. Um, I think he's looking at around 3 to four years in a federal penitentiary if he's convicted on all those charges. All right, man. Well, I appreciate it. I think that's I think that brings us up the timeline to to the present. Yeah. Hope hopefully we can do another update video after he's convicted and you you you guys have won this lawsuit. Well, there you have it. Serious, serious problems in Kentucky. It's so bad that the feds are having to come in and prosecute this guy for uses of force that the literal head of the Kentucky State Police personally approved of and signed off on back when they happened. It's no wonder we're seeing so many videos coming out of Kentucky. Hell, my last video was on the Kentucky State Police. So, I will continue to follow this for sure. You can follow along by subscribing both here and at the blog at the civil rightsawyer.com. You can help by spreading this footage, including to your politicians. Everybody in the country ought to know what is happening right now in Kentucky. This is not a political issue. This is not a partisan issue. This is an issue of police leadership in Kentucky not following the laws and rules that we already have and expect them to follow, which government employees will do if there's no accountability, if nobody is watching them. Remember, our rights don't end where your fear begins. Freedom is scary. Deal with it. [Music]