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Las Vegas police union calls for judge to resign following disparaging remarks from the bench

Judge Erika Ballou

The Las Vegas Police Protection Association wants Clark County Judge Erika Ballou to resign. (Screenshot KLAS)

July 14, 2022
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LAS VEGAS – The Las Vegas Police Protection Association is calling on a judge to resign for making disparaging comments that warned a black defendant to avoid being around police officers because he might not survive. The judge said it is advice she follows herself, according to reports.

The Las Vegas police union wants Clark County Judge Erika Ballou to resign after her eyebrow-raising message while addressing a defendant in court Monday. Footage of the encounter circulated showing Ballou speaking directly to the black defendant, KLAS reported.

“You’re the one making the decisions not to walk away from cops,” Ballou told the man. “You’re a black man in America. You know you don’t want to be nowhere where cops are.”

Ballou, who is black, then continued the disparaging comments by personalizing Monday’s courtroom castigation of police.

“You know you don’t want to be nowhere where cops are cause I know I don’t, and I’m a middle-aged, middle-class black woman,” she proclaimed. “I don’t want to be around where the cops are because I don’t know I’m going to walk away alive or not.”

LVPPA called out the judge for the inflammatory comments

“Hey, Judge, you are a disgrace to the bench,” the police union tweeted Thursday. “You have dishonored the robe you wear. You need to resign immediately.”

Hey, Judge, you are a disgrace to the bench. You have dishonored the robe you wear. You need to resign immediately. #trashjudge #removejudgeballou #supportlawenforcement https://t.co/dPYUalpoR4

— Las Vegas Police Protective Association (@LVPPA) July 14, 2022

The criminal defendant before the court in Monday’s case is accused of committing battery against an officer while on probation from an earlier case. As a result, prosecutors were seeking to get his probation revoked, according to KLAS.

“Even if the cop like came after and was harassing your group, you should have walked away instead of staying,” Ballou told the suspect. “You needed to walk away because you knew you were on probation.”

Although Ballou found the man in violation of his probation, which she revoked, she also reduced his sentence from 24 to 60 months to 19 to 48 months, KLAS reported.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported in 2016 that a judge asked then public defender Ballou to remove a Black Lives Matter pin. She claimed the button, which was removed, wasn’t a political statement.

“This is an issue about criminal justice,” Ballou told the newspaper at the time. “I believe a courtroom is the proper place to make issues about criminal justice. This is not political speech.”

Ballou was elected to the bench in November 2020. Her term runs through 2027, KLAS reported.

Despite her claim for supporting “proper law enforcement,” the Las Vegas police union said it took exception to Ballou’s “disparaging” remarks against police officers, the New York Post reported.

“We also ask the Judicial Ethics Commission to sanction her for violating the Nevada Code of Judicial Conduct,” the union said in a statement. “Judge Ballou has demonstrated that she is biased against law enforcement and cannot live up to the standards required of a jurist … Police officers and the law-abiding citizens of our community deserve better from the judiciary.”


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