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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. On June 20th, 2024, it's just after 3:00 a.m. in Atlanta's Buckhead district when chaos erupted outside the Red Martini nightclub. THIS WOMAN, AS IT TURNS OUT, isn't just anyone. She's Christina Peterson, a Douglas County judge, and this is how her night spiraled from nightlife to headline news. As the struggle continues, an off-duty officer working security steps in. But before he can even sort out what's happening, Christina had stormed up, furious, and already done the damage. [Applause] Officer Keith Wadsworth was working an approved extra job. While assisting security in de-escalating the situation, he was approached by Christina, who began screaming at the security guard and the officer. Police say she then forcibly pushed the officer in the chest. Despite the officer's attempts to assist the woman being escorted out, Peterson continued to interfere, swiping at the officer's hands. [Applause] refused fingerprint scans, and even refused to identify herself at two different jails. City jail rejected her. Fulton County did, too. The system literally couldn't process her, not because of red tape, but because she simply refused to cooperate. Peterson spent several hours in the back of the officer's patrol car, and it's obvious that she was upset by what happened at the nightclub. She alternated between ranting, crying, praying, and finally sleeping during the time she was being held. [Music] I'm praying for you right now. Don't don't talk to me like I'm I'm really praying for your spirit. [Applause] [Music] I'm trying to book you in. So you can go I'm trying to book you in. Ma'am, I'm trying to get you booked in so you can go home. He doesn't understand what this is. He doesn't understand the spirit of God cuz he's under He's under He's understood what the good of proud boys is. He understood what Illuminati is, but he don't know what you are. It's not on my hands. It's on that woman's hands that he beat to the ground just a minute ago that I wouldn't watch. Let him take me where I need to be. Ma'am, I need your name so I can take you where you want to go. Take me I need to be. Where do you want to go? Let me make a call. You want to go home? >> Where I need to be, Lord. Let >> Listen, I'm cutting you Listen. No, because I'm cutting I'm getting I'm getting I'm not giving you space. >> I asked you to call You got his number. What's your name? CALL HIM, PLEASE. GIVE ME YOUR NAME. I'LL OKAY, SO GIVE ME YOUR Give me your name and I'LL CALL HIM. CYRUS COLLY. >> 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 would know where my boy is. Call All right, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. At this point, it appears that she believes that the officer doesn't intend to take her to jail. She accuses him of false imprisonment and tells him that her people know who she left with and they know she hasn't harmed herself. Don't touch me. For what? I wasn't cuffed. I wasn't What do you need to Shut up. You look like Relax. Stop touching me. Don't. Yeah, stop touching me. You get the [ __ ] off of me. Stop touching 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. beat a woman and think I'm about to watch it and be cool with it, you weird ass [ __ ] I asked him to call somebody for me and he didn't. So, what's your name? Well, when I when I get to call somebody, please I'll I'll talk to you. I asked him to call Cyrus Colly. Call Cyrus, please. Thank you. Cyrus Colly, thank you. Thank you. Please, thank you. Cyrus Colly. Cyrus Colly. [Music] Where y'all Where we going? We can't identify you. And where we going? You got to leave. Where you going? Where you going? Back in the car. You take us to jail? You take us to jail? >> You don't want to get booked in. You don't want to provide a name. So, what's your name? Give me your name and your date of birth. Call Colly. You got You know how to call Colly. You don't know who Colly is? He don't work for Atlanta Police Department. He does? Yes, but I I still don't know Can you call Colly? Do you know Colly? No. You acting like you don't know Colly. We don't. We don't know who Colly is. >> give me your name so I can get your name so You don't know Colly. Cyrus Colly. Call Tasha Woods. What's your name? Call Tasha Spann. Okay. Lucian Spann. One of the Call him. Call him. Well, you can't get booked in without having your name and date of Nobody cares. If somebody committed a murder, you would be in regardless cuz you You don't give a [ __ ] who we are. Okay. All right. All right, let's go. This is harassment. Don't touch Don't touch me. Come on. Don't I can walk on my own. Don't touch me. DON'T TOUCH ME. COME ON, LET'S GO. Can you give me your name and you stay here? Lebow. I don't know that number. You don't know Lebow? I know who he is, but I don't have his number. Call Lebow. And tell him I can't How am I going to tell Call him and I will say hello and they will know who I am. This is harassment. This is harassment. And I won't Are you recording this? No, I'm not. You're You're You're You're You're a lunatic. Are you recording this? Ma'am, you can be here and stay here and your friends can pick you up, the ones that were in the Audi. That's it. All I have to do is put your name and date of birth on here so you can get booked in. You You are a liar. You're a liar. That's what you told me the other day. You're a liar. to the ground and you hit me. You have the wrong person. That was you. No, you're drunk and I'm TELLING I I DON'T EVEN [ __ ] LIKE THAT, YOU WEIRDO. AND THAT'S And that's why you acting like this. Are you going to give us your information so you can stay here or are you getting back in the car? Are you going to let me die in the car with you? You're not You're not going to die. Good luck. According to the report, Peterson demanded that the officer contact certain individuals in Atlanta's government if he wanted her cooperation, a power play that didn't land well. Am I going to get out tonight, Lord? Is the Audi going to get me? THEY DON'T CARE CUZ THEY AIN'T GOT [ __ ] else to do, Lord. People where I get like Lord, for real, you wouldn't let me go this way. At least if you let me go, let me go fight. I didn't I didn't even get handcuffed. Don't let me get handcuffed. Are police officers really At least let me fight. And just like that, a sitting Georgia judge finds herself in cuffs on Peachtree Road. You can't scare me with that. You can tell me what I've been arrested for and I would be very City charge of obstruction. No, he said Disorderly conduct. NO, SHE GOT OH, WOW, THEY'RE CHANGING THE CHARGES. IT'S STILL IT'S still It's disorderly conduct. What was the What's the charge? What's the charge? Disorderly conduct. What did I do? Ma'am, we don't know what it is. What did I do? Violent emotional acting acting violent emotional What did I do? You interfered as I was talking to somebody and punched me in my chest. I'm not charging you with battery on a law enforcement officer. I'm charging with disorderly conduct. You can go home. You can signature bond out. So, right now I never had that Give me a city charge. What we're doing right now Give me a city charge. He's He's giving me a city charge. I respect You going to make us go to You going to put a state charge of sexually assaulting him. Okay. So, he'll make something up. No, if he shows If he says you are You put your hands on him? No, he put his HANDS ON ME. WHY WHY DO I LOOK LIKE YOU THINK I WENT OUT LOOKING LIKE THIS? I DIDN'T GO OUT LOOKING LIKE THIS. HE PUT HIS HANDS ON ME. HE PUT HIS HAND on another woman. IT WASN'T ME. I DON'T KNOW THAT. I DON'T EVEN KNOW THE WOMAN HE PUT HIS HANDS ON. BUT I'M HAVING I'M HAVING a rough night so I'm not going to ask you any more. Exactly, he didn't either. He didn't either. Correct. Cuz I'm If I'M NOT UNDER ARREST, THEN WHY ain't he Mirandized me? You don't have to. Oh, unless I'm questioning you, which I'm not about to Oh, so who are you talking to me then? Am I just talking to this I can speak to you. I can ask you your name and I can see how you can cooperate with you to get your name. I'm not asking you about the incident that He said I went IN THERE. YEAH. AND I got paperwork. You got You got scanned to see if you got any comments to the city if you've been arrested. What happened? It didn't go back because you're not cooperating WITH US. OH, YOU SAYING I DIDN'T COOPERATE? CUZ YOU'RE NOT giving us your name. I didn't stand for him? You saying I didn't do my fingerprints? So, at this point, I'll just come with you. Sergeant Daniels, you'll be going to the county jail to be processed and scanned there. If it don't come back, you'll just be going back to What's your first name? I don't have to give you that. My badge number is 7162. I'm not arrested. But hold on. Not either. Allegedly, you are. You You are Oh, I'm arrested now. At what point was I? At what point was I? Once he's left that location with you and the >> That's what I thought. I thought so, too, but I didn't know what I was arrested for. So, you saying it was Now you're saying it was You're saying he made up something else. What are you saying it was or what's the real charge? Cuz I just want to make sure I have the charge down. It was obstruction. What was the >> conduct. Yes. Okay, okay. Okay, you said something. I just want to make sure. I'm not the arresting officer. I'm not arresting you. So, if he told you your charges previously, that's He never told me that. But you said I changed the charges, SO YOU I DIDN'T KNOW [ __ ] SO, I just wanted to make sure. I just wanted to see if you wanted to cooperate before Cooperate with what? With your name. You can't get my fingerprint? I want you to put your toe in. I don't know what your toe is. Are you going to put your toe in? Hold on. He's going to put your seatbelt back on. So, he didn't arrest the woman he beat up or me? So, I I just get beat up I just get arrested for the person he beat up? I wasn't there. So, you could have you could ask the judge whenever that whenever that happened. All right. Can you put your put your foot in? Daniel Daniel's By morning, Petersen was officially charged with battery on a police officer and obstruction of justice. No weapon, no drugs, no stolen property, just one bad decision and a night that spiraled into a PR nightmare for the judiciary. Whether this was a moment of drunken impulse or arrogance in uniform, it's a stark reminder that titles don't stop cuffs from clicking. If you want more raw body cam breakdowns, the kind that show what really happens when ego meets authority, subscribe, hit that bell, and stay tuned. The next case might just top this one.
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