Some people will never learn to be careful what they say when they're being taped.

A Brazoria County justice of the peace was caught on tape earlier this year berating city jail inmates with obscenities and racial slurs, prompting a request for a state investigation that could cost him his job.
Justice of the Peace Matt Zepeda was holding hearings at the Pearland City Jail when surveillance cameras recorded him bursting into several obscenity-laced tirades against inmates. [...]
In a tape from earlier this month, Zepeda can be seen standing at a doorway talking to an inmate inside a room.
After calling the man's name a few times, Zepeda tells him to stand up and says: "Hey, don't f--- with me. I'm the judge. Get over here right now."
Zepeda then uses a racial slur in ordering the inmate to get up again, asking, "You gonna act like a f-----g n----r, is that what you're doing?"
Although the inmate was white, Zepeda is later heard telling a police officer, "I thought he was black."

Not only is the guy a short-tempered bigot, he appears to be blind too. Or maybe just an all-round arsehead.

posted by James Russell | 4:22 PM