Wild body camera footage shows scantily clad Democratic judge ‘punching a cop’ outside Atlanta nightclub

Footage shows the moment a newly dismissed probate court judge punched a local police officer following a drunken fight, cops say.

Christina Peterson, 38, was already under investigation for alleged misconduct in the city of Atlanta, where she worked for years until last May.

She has since been placed under arrest due to the footage and for allegedly punching the police officer in charge of security at the Red Martini restaurant early Thursday. There, cops say she spent a night drinking, despite the charges against her.

Wearing a low-cut dress, the Democrat who was just ousted by voters for two terms is seen embroiled in a physical scuffle that cops say took place seconds before the strike.

Body-worn cameras show the rest — and how Peterson rushed the cop and a security guard to help a woman she said had been “attacked.”

The clip goes on to show an uncooperative Peterson conversing with cops in a squad car, telling them to “Google her” while he was handcuffed and visibly distressed.

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“Take me wherever you want to take me,” she says in the video, shared just hours after a news conference was held to discuss the arrest of the Douglas County probate judge.

“You don’t need ID. You picked up corpses without knowing who they were, but you picked them up.

Take me where you need to take me.

The judge then claimed the clip was taken out of context, saying the altercation happened after she was unjustly arrested while trying to be a good Samaritan.

She said she had just intervened to help a woman who was being “viciously attacked” at the Peachtree Road restaurant and lounge, by an unnamed man not seen in the footage.

She was the only one who helped me,” Alexandria Love, the woman at the center of the incident, told reporters Friday, during which Peterson appeared unfazed by her arrest just over a day earlier.

Love, meanwhile, donned a cast, while Peterson’s attorney, Marvin Arrington Jr., vowed to defend his client to the end.

“This is living proof that no good deed goes unpunished,” said the judge’s legal representative.

“The idea that a good Samaritan who was helping a woman who was violently attacked could be arrested and the man who was violently attacking the woman was not arrested raises other issues.”

Hours later, the footage was made public — as Love and another witness emphatically said they did not know Peterson before.

Later footage shows the judge walking away from an officer as he is escorted to a law enforcement building, while repeating the words “Don’t touch me!” »

Shortly before, Peterson had been handcuffed face down, body camera footage shows – with police asking her name and her refusing to give it.

A preliminary police report viewed by FOX 5 says Judge “appeared to be under the influence” when she struck the officer – an act difficult to make out in the footage.

In it, the male officer who was allegedly punched is seen standing over Peterson and Love, while the former is seen pushing the officer in the chest, at one point in hitting his hands.

The clip then becomes increasingly fragile as a physical conflict ensues, after which the film agent is seen putting bracelets on the lawyer.

But Peterson — an official charged with impartially overseeing local laws — did not sit still, seen struggling and writhing throughout the ordeal.

It ends with her on the ground, before being taken to the police car and eventually to the station.

In the car, she seems increasingly unrepentant, crossing her legs defiantly. Meanwhile, a Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission accused her of holding onto settlement funds instead of distributing them to other plaintiffs, among others.

The commission also accused Peterson of flouting courthouse security protocols, particularly during a wedding held outside of his courthouse’s normal hours, without security checks.

The charges also include making inappropriate social media posts promoting her part-time acting career, failing to comply with a sheriff’s order, possessing a certificate and violating the rights of a local mother by ordering her imprisonment for attempting to alter her marriage license.

Peterson said in December that she was the victim, while claiming she was not receiving the respect she was due as Douglas County’s first black judge.

“I am the first African-American female judge to be a Democrat,” she said through tears at the time, complaining that no media outlet had ever acknowledged that fact.

“I have never been celebrated or praised.”

Today, she faces charges of simple battery of a police officer and willfully obstructing law enforcement by using threats of violence, according to jail records, after cops wrote hearing “a commotion” as a security guard escorted Love outside.

Both investigations are still ongoing and Peterson has not yet been proven guilty.

That was not the case for one of his alleged victims, who Peterson asked to appear in court, before jailing him for 48 hours and fining him $500 for criminal contempt. it was my uncle who raised her.

“I have no memory of my father,” said PJ Skelton, a Thai immigrant who was married in Douglas County in 2016 before Peterson took office late last year. “I don’t know who he is.”

“Did you go to this hearing thinking you might go to jail?” asked Courtney Veal, executive director of JQC.

“No,” replied Skelton, who came under Peterson’s radar after filing paperwork to amend her marriage license in case that posed a problem.

She said Peterson also never told her she might need an attorney in court — an admission that seemed to trouble JQC hearing panel member Robert McBurney.

“Did she let you go get one or did she ask you if one was with you?” » asked McBurney.

“I just asked if anyone was with me,” Skelton replied.

Additionally, unlike his predecessor, Peterson chose to keep all birth and death certificate fees in addition to his salary, a practice that, while legal, is considered unethical.

In 2022, Peterson — at this point a six-year veterinarian — retained $140,485 in fees, bringing her annual compensation to $265,487, records show.

The year before, she pocketed $139,447 in fees, bringing her total income to $265,862.

For comparison, in 2022 the chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court earned $216,593.

Hyde asked Peterson how much money she had made since taking office before submitting their report and making a recommendation to the Georgia Supreme Court,

“Is it more than $400,000?”

“I’m just trying to understand,” Peterson said, clearly surprised by the question. “I would have prepared this if I had known. Am I accused of something?

“I can ask questions,” Hyde said.

‘ALL RIGHT. Thank you, said Peterson, still without answering.

At Friday’s news conference, Peterson had yet to speak, only with tears in his eyes as Love and his attorney took to the plate.

“She didn’t mean to hit the officer,” Love said at one point. “The officer came and grabbed me. He didn’t even care to see the big man brutally punching me in the face.

“So when she saw him grab me, she didn’t know it was the officer. She thought I was still hurt and attacked.

She was ousted by voters on May 21, following a Democratic primary that took place as her punishment for the 30 ethics charges against her loomed.

His fate will ultimately be sealed by the state’s highest court, although a trial date has not been set.