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Judge caught on hot mic denigrating Kevin Peterson Jr., calls him: ‘the Black guy they are trying to make an angel out of’
Updated Mar 19, 2021;
Posted Mar 13, 2021
District Court Judge Darvin Zimmerman spoke at length about his views of the fatal shooting by police of Kevin Peterson Jr. with District Court Commissioner Abigail Bartlett. Their conversation was recorded on a hot mic earlier this week.
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A Clark County judge apparently didn’t realize his courtroom conversation was live on YouTube as he referred to a young man killed last fall by sheriff’s deputies as “the Black guy they are trying to make an angel out of” and called him “dumb” for supposedly thinking he would go to prison for a relatively small drug bust.
Judge Zimmerman caught on hot mic denigrating Kevin Peterson Jr. By Noelle Crombie, oregonlive.com
Share: The Clark County Sheriff s Office, Vancouver Police Department and Washington State Patrol investigate the shooting in Hazel Dell on Oct. 29. (Courtesy of KOIN 6 News)
A Clark County judge apparently didn’t realize his courtroom conversation was live on YouTube as he referred to young man killed last fall by sheriff’s deputies as “the Black guy they are trying to make an angel out of” and called him “dumb” for supposedly thinking he would go to prison for a relatively small drug bust.
District Court Judge Darvin Zimmerman, 70, also said Kevin Peterson Jr. “had a death wish” as well as disparaging Peterson’s father and defending his own son, a deputy who was on the drug task force trying to arrest Peterson.
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