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ATLANTA – Just hours after a press conference to discuss the arrest of Douglas County Probate Judge Christina Peterson outside a Buckhead nightclub, the Atlanta Police Department released video from officers’ body-worn cameras.
Lawyer and Fulton County commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr. says he is representing the judge.
Peterson is accused of punching a police officer who was working security at the Red Martini Restaurant and Lounge on Peachtree Road early Thursday morning.
A preliminary police report obtained by FOX 5 said she “appeared to be under the influence” when she struck an Atlanta police officer.
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The judge was arrested and taken to jail, where she reportedly refused to identify herself and told the officers at the jail to call another officer.
Arrington says that Peterson was trying to help a woman who was being attacked outside the lounge when the incident occurred.
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