After video of racial slurs, Judge Michelle Odinet asks for 'forgiveness.' Resignation calls grow.

[RandySF]

Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet asked for “understanding, forgiveness, patience, and prayers” for her and her son as requests for her resignation grow after a video recorded inside Odinet's home and containing racial slurs was circulated Monday.

On the video, her family gathered to watch home security footage of an armed burglary that took place Saturday in their driveway.

The clip, where a voice is heard saying, “And mom’s yelling n-----, n-----,” to which another female voice answered: “We have a n-----, It’s a n-----, like a roach,” has prompted local officials and community organizers to express concern over Odinet's rulings since she was elected in 2020.

"As a proud Black man, and the Lafayette City Marshal, I strongly believe Judge Odinet should be held accountable” for the words on the video, Lafayette City Marshall Reggie Thomas said Tuesday.




https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/courts/article_d2cf3602-5d02-11ec-bbed-132cde5893fe.html

[MontanaMama]

1. Why does a racist judge need prayers?

Resign lady.

[AZLD4Candidate]

11. Because 9/11

[Skittles]

2. see, no, absolutely not

this is ridiculous, this woman cannot be trusted to be a fair judge...nope

[blogslug]

3. She needs to go

She can retire and go pray for her soul.

[abqtommy]

4. This is a learning moment for Judge Michelle. In the past I was known to use ethnic slurs

but reached a higher level of understanding and stopped. It saddens me that there's a
great deal of hypocrisy evident in the use of ethnic slurs and calls for punishment. I look forward to the day when we all will just stop it.

[Autumn]

5. Learning moment? BullShit. She's a grown ass woman, she's educated and is a judge. If she hasn't

learned be a decent human being by now at this stage in her life she never will. She has no business sitting in judgment of others.

[tenderfoot]

6. How far into middle age did you come to realize racial/ethnic slurs were bad?

[uponit7771]

7. you forgot the / sarc tag

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. She can learn by losing her fuckin job

[Stuart G]

17. That is the only way she will learn anything. She is lost in a sea of shi* She needs a new job.

[RandySF]

14. I was a rotten teenager.

Then I grew up.

[dchill]

8. Oh, I'm praying, all right.

[orleans]

9. more to the article than posted (i know, 4 paragraph limit)

that asshole should be kicked the fuck off the bench TONIGHT!

[Johnny2X2X]

10. Purge them all!

So many racist judges and racist cops! Just sickening that this racist probably ruled against the people she hates every chance she got. Lives ruined because of her racism.

[iemanja]

13. No way that kind of thinking hasn't influenced her job performance

She needs to go.

[Solly Mack]

15. She needs to go.

[Stuart G]

16. Lafayette City in Louisiana, 125,000 in that city.. She was really angry it was caught on tape..

Would you want that person to be a judge in your town/city/state/ or county?

She asks for ...forgiveness ?

She was angry? Caught on tape....

The fool was really angry it was caught on tape. ...Think about that one for awhile, Please..

[Stuart G]

18. Judge Odinet is 52 years old.....She needs to learn how to find a new job..

She already knows how to be a racist, a new job will do her well..

She can learn how not to be a racist..!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. Who agrees their should NEVER be judges like Michelle Odinet on any bench in America

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