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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The fallout continues for a Lafayette judge caught on video using racist and disparaging language.
On Friday, the Louisiana Supreme Court temporarily suspended Michelle Odinet without pay while it further investigates the allegations against her.
The court said that Judge Odinet is “disqualified from exercising judicial functions, without salary, during the pendency of further proceedings in these matters.”
This comes one day after Gov. John Bel Edwards called on her to resign. One Baton Rouge attorney described the footage as ‘disgusting’ and ‘unacceptable’.
This is a person that’s supposed to come to judgment in a fair and impartial manner. That’s the system we have in our society. It’s pretty painfully clear that this person is not capable of having a fair and impartial judgement of anyone that doesn’t look like her,” said Jarrett Ambeau from The Ambeau Law Firm.
The video in question catches Odinet laughing, and using the N-word to describe a man that tried to break in her home. You can also hear Odinet compare the man to a cockroach.
“You have to have a set of beliefs consistent with that in order to say those things. She thought she was safe in that environment in expressing how she feels. She didn’t know someone was videoing it. She didn’t know it would become public,” said Ambeau.
[The Supreme Court appointed Lafayette’s first Black city judge in her place pending the investigation.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The fallout continues for a Lafayette judge caught on video using racist and disparaging language.
On Friday, the Louisiana Supreme Court temporarily suspended Michelle Odinet without pay while it further investigates the allegations against her.
The court said that Judge Odinet is “disqualified from exercising judicial functions, without salary, during the pendency of further proceedings in these matters.”
This comes one day after Gov. John Bel Edwards called on her to resign. One Baton Rouge attorney described the footage as ‘disgusting’ and ‘unacceptable’.
This is a person that’s supposed to come to judgment in a fair and impartial manner. That’s the system we have in our society. It’s pretty painfully clear that this person is not capable of having a fair and impartial judgement of anyone that doesn’t look like her,” said Jarrett Ambeau from The Ambeau Law Firm.
The video in question catches Odinet laughing, and using the N-word to describe a man that tried to break in her home. You can also hear Odinet compare the man to a cockroach.
“You have to have a set of beliefs consistent with that in order to say those things. She thought she was safe in that environment in expressing how she feels. She didn’t know someone was videoing it. She didn’t know it would become public,” said Ambeau.
[The Supreme Court appointed Lafayette’s first Black city judge in her place pending the investigation.