The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Judge Who Put Teen In Handcuffs For Falling Asleep Removed From Docket

Episode Date: August 16, 2024

Charlamagne Tha God give Donkey of The Day to the judge who handcuffed a teen for falling asleep in court. The judge has now been removed from the docket, Charlamagne weighs in and doubles down on his stance. Listen for more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Say it again, Charlamagne. I'm a donkey. Yes, you are a donkey. So I'll show you how to act a donkey. Everything that Charlamagne is saying is true. Yes, Donkey of the Day for Friday, August 16th. Back to back goes to Judge Kenneth King. Okay, again.

Now yesterday I gave Judge Kenneth King Donkey of the Day because there was a young 16-year-old girl who was on a field trip in his courtroom and she kept falling asleep. So becauseold girl who was on a field trip in his courtroom and she kept falling asleep. So because she kept falling asleep on a field trip, this fool, Judge Kenneth King, ordered her to wear jail clothes and handcuffs for no reason at all, okay? Can we play the original news report from ABC7 New York, please?

One thing you'll learn about my courtroom is that I am not a toy. I'm not going to be played with. What started out as an informational field trip with the greeting of Detroit Nonprofit Tuesday to the 36th District Court in front of Judge King quickly turned into Judge King getting visibly agitated over a sleeping student in his courtroom. You fall asleep in my courtroom one more time, I'm putting you in the back, understood? Judge King had her removed from the courtroom, but he told me that didn't fix her, quote, attitude. And that's when he pulled out the jail uniform and handcuffs. King says he was trying to teach the teenager a lesson on behavior and respect in court. I haven't been disrespected like that in a very long time. He then threatened

the girl with jail time. I'm gonna go to sleep tonight while you're sitting in the juvenile detention facility. Was I really gonna do that? Probably not. Could I have? Probably so. Legendary sucker status, Judge Kenneth King. Fragile ego. Disrespected? You got disrespected because she was tired? What you mad for? Lead with love, not fear, fool.

Yesterday, I said this man showed no empathy for this 16-year-old young lady. If she kept falling asleep in court clearly something is wrong instead of jumping to she's not respecting me and she needs to know this is nothing to play with this is not a joke instead of jumping to all that how about find out what's wrong show some compassion some concern and i said yesterday that we don't know what this young lady is dealing with the example i gave was she might be the oldest sibling who had to stay up all night watching her younger siblings because her mom, who was a single parent, had to work all night. That's the example I gave.

Well, guess what? Her mother, LaTorre Till, drop on the clues box for LaTorre Till, who was extremely distraught and rightfully so, she gave a statement to ABC7 and spoke to why her daughter kept falling asleep in court. Let's listen. That mom says she was horrified to see her daughter in handcuffs and says Judge King didn't have the full story. Would you want someone to treat your child like that? Would you even treat your child like that if he fell asleep in the courtroom? Latoria Hill is a single mother of two children, including her oldest daughter, Eva Goodman.

She signed her up for a summer program with the Greening of Detroit nonprofit to including her oldest daughter, Eva Goodman. She signed her up for a summer program with the Greening of Detroit non-profit to keep her busy. What was supposed to be an educational field trip to 36 District Court Tuesday turned into a traumatizing experience for both of them. Judge Kenneth King not liking Eva's attitude and seeing her falling asleep, placing her in handcuffs and a jail uniform. Latoya says Eva was falling asleep because the family does not have a permanent residence at the moment. They're just trying to make ends meet. I'm a single mother. I'm trying my best. So the fact that he was talking about you go home and get in your bed. How do you know my baby got a home?

How do you know my baby got a bed, her. How do you know my baby got a bed, her own bed that she can sleep in? She don't have that right now. Line Judge Kenneth King up for the fade, man. Okay? If there's one thing people in this country gonna do, it's criminalize poverty and blackness, all right? Single mother didn't have a place to stay,

mother doing her best, trying to do her best for her daughter. That's why this situation pisses me off. Because Judge Kenneth King is black. Okay, this young girl is black. How you don't see your daughter in this young girl? Your niece, your little sister. I just don't understand how humans don't recognize the humanity in other people. Okay, as soon as I heard this story, I said to myself, there's no way in hell that young girl was falling asleep over and over for no reason. Then this judge had the nerve to say he wants to mentor the young girl, and he reached out to the

family. Nah, bruh. Like I said yesterday yesterday why would she want you as a mentor when you have already shown you don't care about what she may be going through now i also said yesterday that there should be consequences and repercussions for the trauma judge kenneth king caused this young lady i don't know you know what that would look like you know i don't know if it would be suspended without pay removed from the bench i don't know what discipline would look like in this situation. I actually want the young lady's family to sue. They should be compensated. Okay, Judge Kenneth King should be disciplined and this young lady should be compensated.

Well, one of those things has happened. Judge Kenneth King has been removed from the bench. Let's go back to ABC 7 for the report, please. We begin tonight with a Detroit judge off the bench after sparking outrage across the country. 7 News Detroit broke that story that led to the removal of Judge Kenneth King. The teen he punished for falling asleep in his courtroom during a field trip ended up in handcuffs and jail clothes. Well, tonight her mom is speaking out about the action taken against the judge and the impact of all this on her daughter. So now Judge King is temporarily removed from the docket, and that teenager's mom says it's the first step in their own sense of justice.

Don't play with an upset mother. Because you told my daughter, don't play with you in your courtroom, and so you can't play with the citizens of Detroit and an upset mother. Detroit police also do confirm that Judge King has been receiving death threats, and they are investigating. In Detroit, I'm Rudolf Sinaita, 7 News Detroit. Man, dropping the clues bombs for that man being removed. Okay, good.

They might have a case there. They definitely got a case. What is it, mental distress? Emotional distress. Yes. He needs to be removed, okay? If your ego is that fragile that a young woman falling asleep in your courtroom on a field trip causes you to put her in handcuffs

and jail clothes then you don't need to be a judge i also don't understand how he was able to do that when this young lady didn't even commit any kind of crime like he had the nerve to say i wanted i wanted just to look and feel very real to her even though there's probably no real chance of me getting, no real chance of me putting her in jail. Okay? Judge Kenneth King will continue to get paid while he is off the bench. I don't think he should get paid. I think that he should be removed without pay

because I want this removal from the bench to feel very real to him, even though there's probably no real chance of him getting fired. Listen, the moral of the story is empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. And Judge Kenneth King, you are moving quite uncivilized. Please give Judge Kenneth King the biggest hee-haw again. Matter of fact, let Remy Ma give him the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw, hee-haw.

You stupid mother-----, you dumb. And LaTorre, what's her name? What's the mom's name? LaTorre Till. Did I pronounce that right? Oh, yes. LaTorre Till. Now, y'all be setting up GoFundMe for all kinds of stupid stuff. LaTorre Till, you need to set up some type of GoFundMe or something. For sure.

I was just thinking that. I wonder who gonna hit her up and try to just help out. I would, right now. I would absolutely throw her something. 100%. LaTorre tells that she needed to set up a goal for me because, you know, it pains me to hear when she said the judge told her, I'm going to sleep good in my bed tonight. And she said she don't even got a bed to go home to sleep in.

Oh, my God. Come on, man. Come on, man. Jesus. All right. Well, thank you for the donkey of the day. Donkey of the day is sponsored by renowned personal injury attorney Michael the Bull Laminsoff. Don't be a donkey when you need a fighter on your side.

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