On June 20th, 2024, Officer Wadsworth was working an offduty job at Red Martini on Peach Tree Road when he overheard a loud argument outside. As he approached, he saw a crowd around a woman being restrained by security after a reported fight. No. No. Why don't you let that [ __ ] rest for a female? No. He can touch me everything. This is Christina J. Peterson who served as the probate judge for Douglas County, Georgia after winning the 2020 election. In 2024, when this body cam footage was recorded, she was already in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. And in the process of being removed from the bench by the Georgia Supreme Court for violating judicial conduct rules, Christina tells the officer to get the f off of the intoxicated woman as captured in the body cam. She then punches him in the chest and neck with a closed fist. And that's on me. Oh my god. She's a judge. Go get my judge. Don't just punch the cop. You just punch the cop. No, I did not. Go get my purse. I have your stuff. I got it. Thank you so much. You're welcome. I got it. I got it. I got it. Officer. Officer. I know. Back up. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. She was helping. She pushed me. I didn't push. No, I didn't. No, I don't push push me. No, I did not. No, I did not. Yo, are you punching me? Okay. Hey, are you serious? What I don't understand is the guy was playing. He pushed that lady. He pushed that girl. Record. Record. Please record at Please. Are you serious? She was trying to help out the girl. He was talking. He was getting [ __ ] by the dude. That is That is record please. Please. I'm just taking it to the And he took off my Who told him to record you? I said, "All right, did you get them your name?" No. Christina Peterson. No. Where's my Where's my purse? I got everything. Thank you. What happened, officer? Can you tell me what happened? All right. She was trying to help another girl. Okay. If I come here, she was trying to She was trying to help another girl that was fighting. A man was beating a girl. Please don't arrest her. Nobody did anything because a guy was beating. That's it. That's it. That's it. My friend. That's my friend. I'm going to take her to the G. I walked over there to separate it and I got point. That's it. She see me. She said, "Get up. I'm trying to break it up, right? Oh, man. That's it. Got control herself. That's it. I don't understand what happened on was beating up his girlfriend and she was trying to jump in to help out the girl cuz no other man was helping out the girl and she got knocked the f out like he got he ran now because y'all came. Okay. But he a girl got beat up by her by her uh boyfriend, I think. Okay. So, she she jumped in. She jumped in to help her help the girl out. Okay. But then but she she she's a little also under the weather. She's a little tipsy. So when she seeing another man coming up, she thinking all the men are attacking her. Oh, so she that's why she hit the cop in the chair. I know. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. That's not my call, bro. He I didn't saw anything. I'm just going She was getting dragged like and she's the out of all these men out here, she was she's the only woman that stood up for that woman. Like I don't That's crazy. Listen, it doesn't matter. He fights that girl. God help us, please. Can you count on the 72 right now? Can you please help these black men who was teaming up with the enemy who were disrespecting the women, the black women, putting their hands on the black women? Lord, you broke up a little bit. Can you realize what what did she do? Nothing. Nothing, ma'am. Uh, security was uh separating a fight. He hit a woman. He He abused a woman, ma'am. And I watched it, observed it, and he locked. He put me in handcuffs cuz I was not in agreement with his disrespect for poor woman. My god. My god. My god. Ma'am, look at the videotape. Ma'am, he punched a woman to the ground and then he did me the same. My god, that is so disrespectful. That is so disrespectful. My god. God is not pleased on what you're doing. Maybe if he wasn't drinking for you right now. Maybe if he wasn't Let me Maybe if he wasn't drinking. I pray. Maybe if he wasn't drinking. you would have known that I walked over there to separate it. So there you go. That's why you're going to jail. This woman has done nothing to him. Lord, he put his hands up on her and I could not sit and watch and see it. Lord, I observe him and he in the name of Jesus. Lord, he has been touched by a devil and the demonic spirit. Lord, that he has put his hands upon me in in in in in retaliation. And Lord, in his his demonic spirit, Lord, I'm going to let him live in what he has lived in, Lord. And he's not going to succeed, but he's going to do what he's going to do in this moment. But Lord, you said vengeance is mine, and I will repay. Lord, I would love that you would repay in this moment. I don't know that lady. I came with a man in his in his party. He was it was his birthday. But you put your hands on that woman. And my God my God said, "Benches is mine. I will repay. You do not have to do anything. You do not have to avenge yourself." All right, ma'am. What's your first name so I can book you in? I have to book you in. You want to provide your name? You want to provide your name so you can I know I know my rights. You have not I have not committed a crime. Book me in right now. Okay. I need your name. Book me in. I have not committed a crime. Book me in. Book me in, sir. What items do you have on? Excuse me. I don't have me. All right. I need your first name so I can book you in. Me in. I can't book you in. It doesn't matter. Take me in. Take me in, sir. Unbuckle me and book me in. Okay. You want to get booking so you can go home? Sir, I don't give a Listen to me, sir. Book me in because I'mma tell you I'mma win at the end. Book me in. Unbuckle me. Okay. So, if you want to get booked in, I need your name and your date first. I You You should have known that when you uh when you arrested me without cause and provocation. Thank you. I'll get it. I respect that. What zone is this? What zone is this? What zone is this? What zone is this? Sir. Sir, what zone is this? Can you do me a favor? Hello. I need you. Can you call somebody for me? You want me to call somebody for you? I would love that. What's the number? You have his number. He works for Atlanta Police Department. Who? Cyrus Collie, please call him, please. Thank you. Thank you. Ty Ko, call him please. Thank you. Span Lieutenant Cola, please. Thank you. So, which one do you want me to call first? All of them. But you do you because you have not told me what I have done in order for you to put me in handcuffs. For you to put your hands on that woman and beat that woman without cause and provocation. I think you got it confused. No, I think you have it confused cuz everybody was there that saw it and and I don't care how much you try to pay them people. They were listen. No, I'm sitting in the car, right? So I don't know what I You were not sitting in the Are you serious? Who was beating on that lady? You You beat on that woman. I have this camera on the whole time. Sir, the woman you beat. So why do you have me in handcuffs? I have this camera on the whole time. So who why woman you beat? What woman did I beat? Which woman did I beat? At at the place we were just at, sir. Martini. I'm not about to do that. It was not called Grand Martini. Martini. It's called Red Martini. That's what I said. And outside of the place, you had put your hands on that woman without causing provocation. She did not put your hands on you. She was not aggressive with you. She was not abusive with you, sir. And you put your hands on her without causing provocation. That was that on Junth. I think you had too much to drink. I Are you ser? I didn't have too much to drink. You can't You can't remember what happened. It hold on. First of all, drinking I wasn't driving, sir. I didn't say. So be very careful with what you say. I didn't say anything about that. But you But what you did was put your hands on that lady and then you punched me to the ground. Say I beat a police officer. Are you kidding me? That is crazy. I would love to see the video. I would love to see it and I can't wait to see it because what it's called is malicious prosecution and false arrest. And I have it and I love to see it. Lord, take me where you need to go, sir. Cuz this is harassment. Yeah, this is harassment. Take me where you take run me into the uh what do you call it? The pod sale. What? Take me where you need to take me. I will get a fingerprint and you can and they can find out who I am. I do this for a living. Run me. Don't play with me. Run me into the pod at this point. Please stop playing with me and harassing me. That's not how it works. It will work like that. I promise you. I need a name and date of birth. No. All right. You should have known that when you harassed me and beat me to the ground. Run me to the you you you punched me to the ground. All right. We're going to see. Yeah. Well, we'll be here all night until your Who is your C? What zone is this? Book me in. Then you don't need for me. Book me in. They have a fingerprint. I do this for a living. I do fingerprints for a living. Book me in. Stop playing with me. play with somebody else. Book me in. What's your name? Officer Wadsworth. Excuse me. Officer Wadsworth. Widsworth. What's your number? What do you mean my number? What's your badge number? 7450. 745. 7450. Thank you. 7450. Wadssworth. Right. Thank you. 7450 wise word. Listen, I don't know how you feel about God, but he's powerful. I don't know who you following and what you doing, but I'mma tell you one thing, sir. I don't care if you following the good old boys, the proud boys, or the Illuminati. None of them have the power of God. I pray for you. Widesworth, what you going to do? It's the end of the road. Oh, you going to find Oh, you going uh put me up missing on the side somewhere. Worth. My God, help us, Lord. wise work. Don't lie. God ain't pleased with your lies. You You put that your hands on that girl and I hope you I pray to God you had your your camera on. Was it? I hope to God I pray to God you had your camera on. What? You need help spelling? Lies L I E S because for you to book somebody in, you don't need to write a report. Take book me in widesworth. L I E S. Book me in. L I E S Wsworth. Do you want to go home? Wiseworth home cuz I'mma go home regardless. Wiseworth. I'll be in here with Young Thug and Woody. Is Woody in here? Cuz I like I've been watching his show. Listen lies. I want to book you. Yeah. You don't want to get booked in though. I could give a Listen, Wise. I could give a damn what you do. I would love for you to pick up the phone and call who I asked you to call. Call the people that I asked you to call. Call Span. Call Kie. Call Call. Okay. For who? Call. Call. Call them for who? Me. I don't know who you are. You don't know who I am. You don't know who you are, sir. Call them and ask them who. Ask them. And would I ever put my hands on a man? More more and less a officer. Who? More more or less an officer. Would I ever? Well, you didn't. No, I didn't. You did. You disrespected that woman. You abused that woman. You punched that woman to the ground and then did me. So don't ever try me in God's name. Listen. Listen what I tell you. And I pray for you cuz I just pray for you right now. And I hope you heard it. Listen. I heard it. I hope you heard it, sir. I hope you heard it. I don't care what you say. Ma'am, you are under arrest for disorderly conduct. And disord you are going to the Atlanta City Jail. Disorderly conduct, sir. You are going to the Atlanta City Jail. Disorderly conduct, please, sir, at this moment. Okay, I'll give you if Tell me what I have done, sir. Please. I told you. What did I do? But do you want to argue or do you want me to talk and you want me to let you talk? Okay. Are you going to let me talk? Because I I didn't let my discontent. What was the disorder? Can I talk now? You punched that woman in the face and knocked us to the ground and then you did me the same. What did you tell me? Okay. You want me to talk now? I could tell what what's I'm going to tell you. You got disorderly conduct acting in a violent and tumultuous manner towards me. What did I do, sir? So, there was a fight going. Listen, you ask you're asking me. You're asking the fight that you did. No, listen. Are you asking me? Are you okay? You asking me what h what? Tell me what I did. I'm telling you. I'm Look, look, look. I'm talking to you. You say you going to have to kill me, sir, at the end of No, I don't have to kill you. I don't have to kill you. What you going to have to do? So, listen. I'm just trying to figure out. I'm trying to talk to you. Why you keep talking about kill me? Protect yourself and what you've done tonight. Listen, you keep talking. You're going to have to make sure. Do you want to know what happened or No, please. I'm sitting in my patrol car. You're s You were sitting here. You sitting in my patrol car. You butt punched that woman in the face. No. I was sitting in a patrol car. There was a loud commotion going on. Arguing. Some sort of fight going on. I walked over there. I seen security with a female. What female? Was it me? No. Oh, great. So, whatever security whatever female that was in a whatever happened to her, security was trying to calm her down. What? Before you got there? Before I got there. Exactly. So, before I got there, I guess she was in an altercation with a male. No, she was never in an altercation with a male. You punched She was I never punched her. You did? I'm telling you, I did. I don't have to. You watched me punch somebody. I did. Okay. I did. Okay. What else? So, what happened with me, ma'am? Why? Where did I come in? Security was calming the lady down. Let me talk. Listen. Listen. Why are you trying to argue? Let me talk. Let me talk. Let me talk. Let me talk. Let me talk. No. You asked me to tell you what happened. Siri, call. Ma'am. Callie K. Ma'am, call the Can I book? Do you want to get booked in? Call. comment, please comment. I need your name and date of Okay. I need your name and date of birth to put you in the city. Your I don't know who you are. Your name and date of birth has to go on this ticket. Put you in the city. You know who I am on the news every day. Your name and date of birth has to go in this ticket. No. You put book me in. They'll get it. Has to go on this ticket. Fingerprint me. They'll understand. They'll get me. Your name has relax and get me there. Your name has to go on this ticket. Don't ever disrespect who I am. You know I'm always on the news. Relax and book me. I have no idea who lo and you will in just a minute. When you lose your job, I'm not losing my job. Okay. So, but here's the thing. The the money as as hard as you going as hard as you going for this little money is crazy to me. I think the county the county will get you. Which one? Fson. Which county? We're going to Right Street. What county is this? Where are we? No, don't worry about it. What county is this? Take me here. I want to book in. You don't want to book in. I'm asking for your name and date of birth so I can write. I want to book in book you in. You don't want to book in book. My people got me everywhere I go. They following me. They got me. you out, ma'am. I'm trying to get this I'm trying to get this process. I'm trying to get this process. I'm praying for you right now. Don't Don't talk to me. Like, I'm I'm really praying for your spirit. I No, I could give a take me where you want to take me. You're not going to harass me and I'm not I'm done. I I can get on. No, stop playing with me. You are You have beat a woman and you beat me to the ground. Take me identification and I don't care. You don't need identification. You have locked people up and you 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. I'm trying to. No, take me where you need to take me immediately. Expeditiously. And you're preventing me. Take me. I could give a damn. Take me where you want to take. So, how do you want me to take you somewhere deliciously now? Take me where you want to take me. You I pray for you. I I I promise you I pray for you cuz your life you have a long life to live. I promise you. I pray for you, ma'am. I need your first, sir. Listen to me. So, I can book you in so you can go on with your day. So, you can go on with your day. Sir, the last person that did the last person that ever tried me like this died 30 days later. I pray for you and I I pray for you. My God. Honey, I'm giving I'm giving I'm not giving you to call. You got his number. I callie. Give me your name. Okay. Okay. So, give me give me your name and I'll call Kie. Cyrus Collie. Give me your name. Give me your name and I'll call him. Call him now. Give me your name and I'll call him. He will know with my voice. Call. All right. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Exactly. Where in the world is this man going? Why would he not be getting me out this car? This is harassment. In in in in law enforcement to make something look like a real arrest, I respect it by all means. But for you to ever say I will be the officer to try to get an arrest, by all means. I can't wait. Just give me where I need to go, sir and ma'am. So I can go home and I can sue the police department at this point. Don't touch me. Can you step up? Stop touching me. Don't Yeah. Stop touching me. I got it. I can walk on my own. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. I got it. I can walk on my own. Don't touch me. What's your name? What was your name? Wadssworth. Wadssworth. Wad who? Wadssworth. Wadsworth. Got it. Thank you. I asked him to call somebody for me. It be different. So, what's your name? I when I when I get to call somebody, please I'll I'll talk to you. And where we going? You got to leave. Leave where? Where we going? Back in the car. That's the jail. Why can't I go to the jail? You don't want to get booked in. You don't want to provide a name. So, what's your name? Your name and your date of birth. Callie. You got You don't I don't know who Kie is. You don't know who Kie is. He don't work for Atlanta Police Department. He does. Yes, but I I still don't know. Can you call Holly? Do you know Holly? Okay. All right. All right. We got to go. This is harassing. Don't touch Don't touch me. Don't touch me. I can walk on my own. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Come on. Let's go. What you need, Freeman? Freeman, what do you need? Freeman, when's my charge? I don't know. I don't know. I didn't arrest you. But do you know why you finger Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Why you fingerprinting me? Do you know why? Um Hold on. Can I get your middle finger, please? Just one more finger. Hold on. It's just Why you're Why you're fingerprinting me. Tell me what I'm arrested for. It's just one more finger. Freeman, you're not about to do this. Huh? Disorder disorderly conduct. What? What was the disorderly conduct, Freeman? I wasn't there. Can you ask him? Cuz I have not been informed. Fully conduct. He's telling you how separating the incident woman. I never punched you. You are fully. Okay. All right. Can you cover up my vagina, please? I'm sorry. I can't do anything like that. I'm going have to get a female officer. You're getting charged with obstruction and simple battery to officer. What's obstruction mean? What's the I mean, I'm just saying, are you a part of some organization? Are you some figure? They know exactly who I am. Okay. Who Who are you? You know exactly who I am, too. So, I know who you do. It was a setup, but it's okay. So, what's my charges now? She was charged with felony obstruction of a law enforcement officer for using threats and violence against the officer and simple battery against a police officer. As of now, there's no public information about the court's decision regarding Christina Peterson's arrest. However, on June 25th, 2024, the Georgia Supreme Court removed her from her position as probate judge of Douglas County and barred her from holding any judicial office in the state for 7 years, citing violations of judicial conduct rules, including mishandling a contempt case and engaging in unauthorized communications. Hey everyone, it's Trent, prior deputy sheriff patrol sergeant and canine handler. And bar calls are always a good time. You never know what you're going to get when responding to these things. It's 2 or 3:00 in the morning. People have been drinking for multiple hours. Usually, it's you're there because there'd been a fight. People are angry, sad, upset. It can be complete chaos. Sometimes they can be funny. Sometimes they can be intense and ridiculous. You just never know. It's a roll of the dice. But this officer responding to this call, when he gets there, we see that girl being restrained by that security guard. So apparently what happened right before this is that girl that was restrained by that security guard. She had been standing in line for a food truck and there had been a guy standing behind her that was not her boyfriend, just some random guy. He accused her of cutting in front of him in line. They got into a verbal argument and at which point in time, I believe he became physical with her and then Judge Christina Peterson stepped in to save the day apparently when nobody else was. I guess that's was what some of these bystanders were saying. Either way, this cop does his job, shows up, tries to break this up and figure out what's going on because it's just a bunch of people yelling and screaming. Clearly, Christina is not helping the situation, and she should know better considering the fact that she is an elected official. But she doesn't do that. Instead, she sees this cop standing right in front of her since she's facing him in uniform. And this cop's trying to figure out what's going on. and she decided to punch him in the throat and neck area when he is trying to figure out the situation with this girl who is a stranger to her and she thought that that was going to be a good idea. At which point in time obviously that cop pushes her to the ground and then you hear everyone around saying almost in unison to Christina like, "Hey, that's a cop." Clearly indicating that they had just watched her punch him or push him in the chest and neck area. Now, regardless of what she thought this cop was doing is wrong, it's probably not a good idea, especially if you're a judge, to get physical with a cop or anybody else for that matter. I mean, you need to conduct yourself in a more professional manner. Just because she's not at work in a courthouse, you are still held to a higher standard in your personal life as well, just like cops are or supposed to hold yourself to a higher standard. And clearly, she didn't do that. Then, once he arrested her justifiably so, was taken to her to his patrol car. She wasn't cooperating, wasn't providing her name, which I thought was interesting because you can actually hear one of her friends say, "Hey, that's my friend Christina Peterson. She's a judge." So, I don't know if that cop just didn't hear it or whatever the case was. There's a lot of people out there. It was pro. It was loud. People were yelling. He was having to deal with Christina and her childish nonsense on top of that. So, I don't know. And then she's sitting in the back of his patrol car for multiple hours as he's trying to identify her. Obviously, they get out and go into the jail. She's still refusing to provide her name or anything else for that matter. And she's just telling him like, "Hey, call this lieutenant. Call this chief." Like, they're just going to come down and bail her out when they're not going to be helping her in any regard. She just thought of herself as much more important than she actually was. And as that officer told her, you're just she's just drunk, right? She drank way too much clearly. And she kept accusing this cop of being the one that pushed that girl. Just shows you where her mind's at. She had no idea what happened. But that's not an excuse. I don't know what ultimately came of this in court when for this bar incident. I know that I I I did read that her attorney had initially been trying to fight it to get it dismissed because he said that the cop had lied that she had never pushed him or hit him, which obviously she did do, but there wasn't any updates that I was able to locate. However, 5 days after this initial incident, so the incident occurred on June 20th to 24th. Five days later on June 25th, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled to have her removed from her position as judge. And I think that this was just the straw that broke the camel's back because this had been ongoing for a very long time in terms of the Georgia Supreme Court trying to push for her removal for violating multiple judicial laws. There was ethical issues. She just wasn't doing her job. I read in one instance where there was a woman in court before her that was trying to fix an error on her marriage certificate and Christina Peterson placed her in contempt of court and put her in jail for 20 days and apparently without cause or any type of legal reasoning whatsoever. She just had an issue with her for whatever the case was. And that was notated in a 2023 hearing where there was 30 counts of separate misconduct that had all been sustained against Christina for these various things throughout the years. So, like I said, this has already been a long time coming. And clearly, if she's doing this while just hanging out in her personal life and hitting cops, I can't even imagine what she was doing behind closed doors. And it sounds like a lot of it was illegal. And she has since been removed, which is probably a huge benefit for that community. And that's going to be it for this one. See you guys in the next one. [Music]