MS Judge Accused Of Smacking Mentally Disabled Black Man, Yelling, ‘Run, N-gger, Run’
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A Mississippi judge was accused of striking a mentally disabled black man and yelling, “Run, n-gger, run.”
The family of 20-year-old Eric Rivers filed a complaint against Madison County Justice Court Judge Bill Weisenberger in connection with the May 8 incident at the Canton Flea Market, reported the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
The executive director of the state Judicial Commissioner said, if the allegations are true, Weisenberger would have violated multiple canons of the Judicial Code of Ethics.
Canton’s former mayor and current president of the town’s NAACP branch called on the judge, a former law enforcement officer and former emergency operations director in Madison County, to step down from hearing cases until the matter is resolved or just resign.
“This is 2014, not 1960, where someone could slap a young man and call out, ‘Run, n-gger, run,’” said William Truly, NAACP chapter president and former mayor.
Truly said defendants should not have to face judge who holds “such a high degree of racial animus and hatred.”
The former mayor said he expected a grand jury to eventually hear the case, and the NAACP plans to file complaints with the Judicial Performance Commission, the state attorney general’s Vulnerable Adult Unit, and the Justice Department.
Cathy Hendrix, a vendor at the flea market, said Rivers had asked for work so he could earn money for a bicycle.
The vendor’s sister, Tammy Westbrook, said she saw Weisenberger “rear back and slap” Rivers twice, and she said the judge yelled out “run, boy, run,” and “run, n-gger, run.”
Westbrook said the judge then bragged about what he’d done.
“I do not care if this young man was being a nuisance,” said Hendrix, who is white. “I do not care if he were breaking a law, I do not care if he were loitering, but I do care that a man of authority, one that is sworn to protect and serve, was slapping a young man.”
Hendrix said Weiseberger then told a female vendor he would make her park away from her booth, and when the woman suggested he “change his tone,” the judge said he would only talk to her husband because he didn’t take orders from women.
Both women said they initially thought Weiseberger was a law enforcement officer because he was wearing a security officer’s uniform – but they later learned he was a judge.
Under Mississippi law, elected justice court judges are required only to hold a high school diploma, although legislators recommended in 2007 that they should hold a higher degree, preferably a law degree.
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Under Mississippi law, elected justice court judges are required only to hold a high school diploma, although legislators recommended in 2007 that they should hold a higher degree, preferably a law degree.
The ? ? ? 's like a third world country. -
Racism in Mississippi? That's new.
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So any uneducated redneck can be a judge in MS? Explain yourself, lol. I'd hate to be in court in MS. No justice for any minority.
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I ain't surprised. They got some senator running for election down here. Dude be talking bout getting the government out of mississippi. Big ass confederate flags and I done had it out with three of these hicks so far. Damn near killed that son'? over some socks.
I'll be glad when I'm back in Louisiana. I'll at least have some cosigns if I get locked up back home. -
These cave people has high paying job positions but still have the urge to ? up.
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cainvelasquez wrote: »
Mississippi is a 3rd world country -
all white people need to die.
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Surprised he didn't get hit w the retarted strength
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Stephen A. Smith would probably agree 100 % with this dude.
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cainvelasquez wrote: »
Mississippi is a 3rd world country
They've been near the bottom or at the bottom in ranks of poverty&education for years so you might have a point. -
cainvelasquez wrote: »
Mississippi is a 3rd world country
They've been near the bottom or at the bottom in ranks of poverty&education for years so you might have a point.
Exactly. -
What astounds me is that in 2014, where everyone knows even the HINT of racism will get a person crucified in society, brazen-ass saltines still gives no ? , and continue to do hill billy ? .
? em. Strip em all of judicial power he has. -
cainvelasquez wrote: »
Mississippi is a 3rd world country
They've been near the bottom or at the bottom in ranks of poverty&education for years so you might have a point.
I'm from New Orleans and we're not to much better
But
At least Louisiana got good food and bad ? . -
lmao @ "preferably" a law degree. Like that ? is a ? suggestion.
Bomb Mississippi please...blacks too. Carpet bomb the whole ? state. So ? embarrassing and useless. Mississippi is so ? embarrassing and useless to this country that Katrina wiped out part of their state too and til this day people openly dont give a ? .
The President didnt react quick enough to save N.O. and people were ? . But only like 13 FEMA employees came to Mississippi and the whole country was like, "SEEMS LEGIT."
The WORLD hates these ? breh. -
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Only in America...
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lmao @ "preferably" a law degree. Like that ? is a ? suggestion.
Bomb Mississippi please...blacks too. Carpet bomb the whole ? state. So ? embarrassing and useless. Mississippi is so ? embarrassing and useless to this country that Katrina wiped out part of their state too and til this day people openly dont give a ? .
The President didnt react quick enough to save N.O. and people were ? . But only like 13 FEMA employees came to Mississippi and the whole country was like, "SEEMS LEGIT."
The WORLD hates these ? breh.
I ? with Big K.R.I.T. though -
cainvelasquez wrote: »
i'll never complain about florida again. -
Smh, this jug head ? .
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Mississippi is so assbackwarda smh.
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Shizlansky wrote: »cainvelasquez wrote: »
Mississippi is a 3rd world country
They've been near the bottom or at the bottom in ranks of poverty&education for years so you might have a point.
I'm from New Orleans and we're not to much better
But
At least Louisiana got good food and bad ? .
I'm from Bama and we're usually battling MS for that bottom spot.
But
I'll get back wit ya when I figure out what we have that's good, besides football.
