August 15, 2024 • 8 mins
Charlamagne Tha God give Donkey of the Day to a judge who took things way too far by putting a teenager in handcuffs for falling asleep during a courtroom field trip. What should have been an educational experience turned into a nightmare for this student. Charlamagne breaks down why this judge deserves the title of Donkey of the Day. Listen for more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Say it again, La, Yes you are that Charlotte is true.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Donkey of Today for Thursday, August fifteenth, goes to thirty
six District Court Judge King of King. Okay, Judge King,
the levels of disappointment I have for you this morning. Okay, you,
my brother, my brother, my brother. I just don't understand humans. Okay,
I don't understand humans like I believe I understand humans.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
One thing that therapy has taught me over the years
is to always put yourself in other people's shoes. You
have to attempt always to see other humans as you
see yourself. You have to attempt to see other humans
as you see people you love. So I have a
sixteen year old daughter, so naturally, if I see something
happen to a sixteen year old, especially a sixteen year
old girl, I'm like, damn, why would he handle a
sixteen year old girl like that? And that is exactly
(00:52):
what my mind is in regards to Judge King of King, Judge,
why would you do what you did to this sixteen
year old teenage girl? I know you're sitting saying yourself
with Charlamagne, what did he do? Well?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Let's go to ABC seven for the report. Please, no, baby,
you'll learn about my court room is that I'm not
a toy.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm not gonna be played with. What started out as
an informational field trip with the greeting of Detroit nonprofit
Tuesday to the thirty six District Court in front of
Judge King, quickly turned into Judge King getting visibly agitated
over a sleeping student in his courtroom while.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
My court room home time and putting you in the
back instead.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
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.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I haven't been disrespected like that in a very long time.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
He then threatened the girl with jail time.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
While you're sitting in a juvenile attention to Was I
really going to do that? Probably not? Could I have?
Probably so?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
The nonprofit running the field trip tells me in a
statement quote, although the judge was trying to teach a
lesson of respect, his methods were unacceptable. The young lady
was traumatized by the judges unnecessary disciplinary treatment and scolding.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Judge Kenneth King, are you serious? A sixteen year old
girl is on a field trip. She keeps falling asleep
on the field trip, and you decide to do an
impromptu hearing for her because of her attitude and constant
sleeping on the trip. You told that sixteen year old girl,
if you fall asleep in my coat room one more time,
I'm gonna put you in the back. I am not
to be played with. What an ego driven statement, Judge King.
You are a leader, and there are three rules of leadership.
(02:32):
The first rule of leadership is put your mission above
your ego. What were you trying to get across to
these kids on this field trip? What was your intention?
What was the mission? Because it sounds to me like
you was just flexing. You was just trying to showcase
your authoritie. Okay, you wanted them to respect you, but
clearly you're not able to gone and respect without that role,
that gaveling that bench.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Okay, you not to be played with.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
No, you played yourself because I told you the first
rule of leadership.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
The second rule of leadership is if you don't care
about your people. They won't care about your mission. You
didn't care about that little girl. You don't know why
she kept falling asleep.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You have no idea.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
She might be sixteen with a couple of younger siblings
and has to stay up all night watching them because
her single mother, her single mom.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Is at work and can't afford the babysitter.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Hell, she might be sick and on some type of medication,
and the medication might be making her drowsy. I don't know.
My point is, Judge, you didn't even bother to find out.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You didn't care.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You just got offended because she kept falling asleep in
the courtroom and you wanted to show her you nothing
to play with. Why not ask her why you're so tired?
You seem exhausted, young lady? What's going on? Have a
conversation she was going on in the young woman's life, Judge,
And guess what, Judge, Kenneth King, the third rule of
leadership is if I have to tell you the first
two rules of leadership, then guess what.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
You're not ready to lead yet.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Okay, I know you've been a judge in that court
since two thousand and six, but I'm calling that a
whole tenure in the question. Okay, first of all, you
suggested this young lady needed to be behind.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Bars for what Why.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Falling asleep in the courtroom is not a crime. You
traumatize this young girl simply because she was exhausted. If
her daddy catches you in the street and wants to fade,
you earn that. If her daddy and his brothers and
cousins catch you in the street and jump you, then
you earn that. Because there's no way in hell that
sixteen year old girl should be threatened with handcuffs into
jail uniform all because of your ego. He was trying
(04:15):
to teach a lesson in respect and ended up showing
us why you don't deserve any If you thought the
kid was being disrespectful, simply asked them to leave your court. Instead,
you decided to talk to him like this. Let me
hear him, alredy, you fall asleep.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
In my courtroom one more time and putting you in
the back instead.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You don't care, how so as we bring the prison
she can step back there.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
He's got a uniform for it too.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
What made court?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And then when I asked you about it, you fall
asleep again.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Then I try to wake you up like you don't care.
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I have no problem because I'm gonna go stick while
you're sitting in the juvenile attention to.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
What makes you think you can talk to my child
like that?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Then he had the nerve to say to the Detroit
Free Press, I wasn't trying to punish to the young lady.
And he was also traumatized by the hearing. How the
hell were you traumatized by the hearing? You're not a
victim here. You had zero empathy for this young lady
and for whatever reason, your fragile ego was bruised because
this young lady kept falling asleep in the courtroom, so
you decided to threaten her with handcuffs and jail clothes. Man,
(05:19):
everybody involved in this situation needs to be disciplined, to
judge the officers who went along with this nonsense, All
of y'all need to be disciplined in some way shape
or for him suspended without pay.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
This is an abusive power.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Her parents should be able to sue, and this young
girl should be compensated for her pain and suffering. Judge
Kennef King said he wanted this to be a deterrent,
a deterrent from what what was she doing wrong? Being tired?
It's a field trip, the judge said, I wasn't trying
to punish the young lady, but you did. You wanted
to show her this is not a joke. What is
not a joke. It's almost like your feelings were hurt
(05:52):
because these kids weren't excited to be in the courtroom.
They weren't excited to me, the honorable Judge Kenneth King.
Nothing honorable about your actions. King. Then you got the
nerve to reach out to the girl's family and offer
the mentor her talking about you trying to get through
to her fool You still don't even know why she's tired.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Why would I want you as.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
A mentor after you abuse your power and threaten to
put my daughter in handcuffs and jail clothes because she
fell asleep in your courtroom on a field trip. Man,
somebody sew the brakes off these people. You don't traumatize
this girl. We don't even know what else she dealing with.
But whatever it is, you made it worse because you
abused your power. And that's why you need to be
taking off the bench for a little while, so you
(06:32):
no longer have the.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Power to abuse.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Everything Judge King said should happen to this young girl
needs to happen to him. How do we deter Judge
King from doing this to other people? How do we
discipline Judge King so he knows doing this to people's kids.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Is not a joke.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Let's discuss in the meantime. Please, let Rey mad give
Judge Kenneth King the biggest he hull.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Hee haw he ha, stupid mother? Are you dumb? Humans
are crazy? Let's let's open up the phone lines.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Let's go to breakfast club court eight hundred five eight
five one oh five to one. What are your thoughts
and all this young lady did when she was sixteen?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
She fell asleep, fell asleep a few times and clearly,
clearly you know she's exhausted. If she fell asleep, they
woke her up and she fell asleep again. Like Judge,
when you're dealing with kids, you need to have a
car I think that's the biggest thing that people don't
do right with kids.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You gotta have conversation, but they find out what's wrong.
That's right, That's that's the main thing.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Listen, we ain't gonna talk about fall asleep, like we've
all fell asleep the places that we shouldn't be fall asleep.
Mac falls asleep up here. I fell asleep in the
club before. You fell asleep many a time.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
When Mac is four hundred pounds, so you probably got
to sleep happen here. But once again, you don't know
what people are going to That's what I said. You
don't know what people are going through. You're gonna be
mad at back, you know what I'm saying. Who told
us earlier that he gets mistaken for Lebron James, that's
a lie, that's what he said that.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
He also said he got that I was mistaken for
the game too.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's he's not he's too big to be the game.
He's the whole league say, that's when the game fell off.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
My point is we don't know why this young lady
fell asleep, correct, And I also want to know what
should happen to the judge. You can't not tell me
that there should not be consequently the repercussions for this.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Well, let's discuss eight hundred and five eight five one
oh five one. Get on the phone lines right now.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You ain't no king judge.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's the Breakfast King Donkey of Today is sponsored by
renowned personal injury attorney Michael the Bull Lamb is soft.
Don't be a donkey when you need a fighter on
your side. If you're ever injured, go to Michael to
bull dot com. That's Michael to bull dot com. And
when you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club
Say it again, La, Yes you are that Charlotte is true.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Donkey of Today for Thursday, August fifteenth, goes to thirty
six District Court Judge King of King. Okay, Judge King,
the levels of disappointment I have for you this morning. Okay, you,
my brother, my brother, my brother. I just don't understand humans. Okay,
I don't understand humans like I believe I understand humans.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
One thing that therapy has taught me over the years
is to always put yourself in other people's shoes. You
have to attempt always to see other humans as you
see yourself. You have to attempt to see other humans
as you see people you love. So I have a
sixteen year old daughter, so naturally, if I see something
happen to a sixteen year old, especially a sixteen year
old girl, I'm like, damn, why would he handle a
sixteen year old girl like that? And that is exactly
(00:52):
what my mind is in regards to Judge King of King, Judge,
why would you do what you did to this sixteen
year old teenage girl? I know you're sitting saying yourself
with Charlamagne, what did he do? Well?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Let's go to ABC seven for the report. Please, no, baby,
you'll learn about my court room is that I'm not
a toy.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm not gonna be played with. What started out as
an informational field trip with the greeting of Detroit nonprofit
Tuesday to the thirty six District Court in front of
Judge King, quickly turned into Judge King getting visibly agitated
over a sleeping student in his courtroom while.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
My court room home time and putting you in the
back instead.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
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.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I haven't been disrespected like that in a very long time.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
He then threatened the girl with jail time.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
While you're sitting in a juvenile attention to Was I
really going to do that? Probably not? Could I have?
Probably so?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
The nonprofit running the field trip tells me in a
statement quote, although the judge was trying to teach a
lesson of respect, his methods were unacceptable. The young lady
was traumatized by the judges unnecessary disciplinary treatment and scolding.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Judge Kenneth King, are you serious? A sixteen year old
girl is on a field trip. She keeps falling asleep
on the field trip, and you decide to do an
impromptu hearing for her because of her attitude and constant
sleeping on the trip. You told that sixteen year old girl,
if you fall asleep in my coat room one more time,
I'm gonna put you in the back. I am not
to be played with. What an ego driven statement, Judge King.
You are a leader, and there are three rules of leadership.
(02:32):
The first rule of leadership is put your mission above
your ego. What were you trying to get across to
these kids on this field trip? What was your intention?
What was the mission? Because it sounds to me like
you was just flexing. You was just trying to showcase
your authoritie. Okay, you wanted them to respect you, but
clearly you're not able to gone and respect without that role,
that gaveling that bench.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Okay, you not to be played with.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
No, you played yourself because I told you the first
rule of leadership.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
The second rule of leadership is if you don't care
about your people. They won't care about your mission. You
didn't care about that little girl. You don't know why
she kept falling asleep.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You have no idea.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
She might be sixteen with a couple of younger siblings
and has to stay up all night watching them because
her single mother, her single mom.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Is at work and can't afford the babysitter.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Hell, she might be sick and on some type of medication,
and the medication might be making her drowsy. I don't know.
My point is, Judge, you didn't even bother to find out.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You didn't care.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You just got offended because she kept falling asleep in
the courtroom and you wanted to show her you nothing
to play with. Why not ask her why you're so tired?
You seem exhausted, young lady? What's going on? Have a
conversation she was going on in the young woman's life, Judge,
And guess what, Judge, Kenneth King, the third rule of
leadership is if I have to tell you the first
two rules of leadership, then guess what.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
You're not ready to lead yet.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Okay, I know you've been a judge in that court
since two thousand and six, but I'm calling that a
whole tenure in the question. Okay, first of all, you
suggested this young lady needed to be behind.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Bars for what Why.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Falling asleep in the courtroom is not a crime. You
traumatize this young girl simply because she was exhausted. If
her daddy catches you in the street and wants to fade,
you earn that. If her daddy and his brothers and
cousins catch you in the street and jump you, then
you earn that. Because there's no way in hell that
sixteen year old girl should be threatened with handcuffs into
jail uniform all because of your ego. He was trying
(04:15):
to teach a lesson in respect and ended up showing
us why you don't deserve any If you thought the
kid was being disrespectful, simply asked them to leave your court. Instead,
you decided to talk to him like this. Let me
hear him, alredy, you fall asleep.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
In my courtroom one more time and putting you in
the back instead.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You don't care, how so as we bring the prison
she can step back there.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
He's got a uniform for it too.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
What made court?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And then when I asked you about it, you fall
asleep again.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Then I try to wake you up like you don't care.
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I have no problem because I'm gonna go stick while
you're sitting in the juvenile attention to.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
What makes you think you can talk to my child
like that?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Then he had the nerve to say to the Detroit
Free Press, I wasn't trying to punish to the young lady.
And he was also traumatized by the hearing. How the
hell were you traumatized by the hearing? You're not a
victim here. You had zero empathy for this young lady
and for whatever reason, your fragile ego was bruised because
this young lady kept falling asleep in the courtroom, so
you decided to threaten her with handcuffs and jail clothes. Man,
(05:19):
everybody involved in this situation needs to be disciplined, to
judge the officers who went along with this nonsense, All
of y'all need to be disciplined in some way shape
or for him suspended without pay.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
This is an abusive power.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Her parents should be able to sue, and this young
girl should be compensated for her pain and suffering. Judge
Kennef King said he wanted this to be a deterrent,
a deterrent from what what was she doing wrong? Being tired?
It's a field trip, the judge said, I wasn't trying
to punish the young lady, but you did. You wanted
to show her this is not a joke. What is
not a joke. It's almost like your feelings were hurt
(05:52):
because these kids weren't excited to be in the courtroom.
They weren't excited to me, the honorable Judge Kenneth King.
Nothing honorable about your actions. King. Then you got the
nerve to reach out to the girl's family and offer
the mentor her talking about you trying to get through
to her fool You still don't even know why she's tired.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Why would I want you as.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
A mentor after you abuse your power and threaten to
put my daughter in handcuffs and jail clothes because she
fell asleep in your courtroom on a field trip. Man,
somebody sew the brakes off these people. You don't traumatize
this girl. We don't even know what else she dealing with.
But whatever it is, you made it worse because you
abused your power. And that's why you need to be
taking off the bench for a little while, so you
(06:32):
no longer have the.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Power to abuse.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Everything Judge King said should happen to this young girl
needs to happen to him. How do we deter Judge
King from doing this to other people? How do we
discipline Judge King so he knows doing this to people's kids.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Is not a joke.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Let's discuss in the meantime. Please, let Rey mad give
Judge Kenneth King the biggest he hull.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Hee haw he ha, stupid mother? Are you dumb? Humans
are crazy? Let's let's open up the phone lines.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Let's go to breakfast club court eight hundred five eight
five one oh five to one. What are your thoughts
and all this young lady did when she was sixteen?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
She fell asleep, fell asleep a few times and clearly,
clearly you know she's exhausted. If she fell asleep, they
woke her up and she fell asleep again. Like Judge,
when you're dealing with kids, you need to have a
car I think that's the biggest thing that people don't
do right with kids.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You gotta have conversation, but they find out what's wrong.
That's right, That's that's the main thing.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Listen, we ain't gonna talk about fall asleep, like we've
all fell asleep the places that we shouldn't be fall asleep.
Mac falls asleep up here. I fell asleep in the
club before. You fell asleep many a time.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
When Mac is four hundred pounds, so you probably got
to sleep happen here. But once again, you don't know
what people are going to That's what I said. You
don't know what people are going through. You're gonna be
mad at back, you know what I'm saying. Who told
us earlier that he gets mistaken for Lebron James, that's
a lie, that's what he said that.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
He also said he got that I was mistaken for
the game too.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's he's not he's too big to be the game.
He's the whole league say, that's when the game fell off.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
My point is we don't know why this young lady
fell asleep, correct, And I also want to know what
should happen to the judge. You can't not tell me
that there should not be consequently the repercussions for this.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Well, let's discuss eight hundred and five eight five one
oh five one. Get on the phone lines right now.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You ain't no king judge.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's the Breakfast King Donkey of Today is sponsored by
renowned personal injury attorney Michael the Bull Lamb is soft.
Don't be a donkey when you need a fighter on
your side. If you're ever injured, go to Michael to
bull dot com. That's Michael to bull dot com. And
when you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
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