July 28, 2024
50 Cent Calls For Removal Of White Judge Captured on Video Threatening To Shoot Black Teens
New York State Supreme Court Justice Erin Gall was captured on police bodycam video from 2022 threatening to shoot a group of Black teens if the police don't.
Rapper and television producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is calling for the removal of a New York State Supreme Court judge who was seen on video threatening to shoot a group of Black teenagers at a high school graduation part.
According to Vibe, the video is from 2022, and depicts Erin Gall, who is white, intimidating a group of Black teenagers and at one point, threatening to shoot them if the police don’t.
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The video, which comes from the bodycam of an officer who responded to a reported trespassing at the party in New Hartford, New York, was released earlier in July and has resulted in several calls for Gall to be removed from her position as a state Supreme Court Judge. That includes 50 Cent on Instagram. “This is bad,” he wrote in part.
According to Vibe, Gall tells the teenagers, “You’re not going to find your keys. You got to call an Uber and get off the property. You’re going to get a cop escort home. I’ve done this for a million years. I’m a lawyer. I’m a judge. I know this.”
Here, it turned into a menacing encounter as she made sure to tell the officers that she knew they could shoot the teens without any legal consequences, before saying, “You can shoot them on the property.” If not, Gall said, “I’ll shoot them on the property.”
According to the Rochester Democrat-Chronicle, Gall also insulted the intelligence of the group of Black teenagers: “They don’t look like they’re that smart. They’re not going to business school, that’s for sure.” As the outlet reported, this was intended as a comparison to her son, who was allegedly involved in a fight at the party but was attending business school.
Gall was rebuffed at one point by an officer, who told her, “You can’t shoot somebody for simply going on your property…Do you hear what you’re saying? You’re all white, privileged people with high-power jobs.”
Undaunted, when informed that the officers could potentially face civil rights lawsuits for unlawful arrests, Gall told the officers, “The good part is I’m always on your side. You know I’d take anyone down for you guys. You know that.”
According to the Commission of Judicial Conduct’s report, which recommended that she be removed from her position for her actions, Gall “repeatedly violated the ethical rule prohibiting judges from lending the prestige of their judicial office to advance their own private interests or the interests of others.”
According to Robert H. Tembeckjian, the administrator of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, Gall’s behavior is as shocking as anything he has seen in his 40 years of judicial ethics enforcement. The commission’s recommendation will go before the New York State Court of Appeals for a final recommendation.
Tembeckjian continued, “It is utterly unacceptable for a judge to threaten gun violence, exhibit racial prejudice, promise favorable treatment for the police, or disparage a law intended to keep guns away from dangerous people. Any one of these things would undermine public confidence in the administration of justice.”
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