WV Judge Pulls Gun in Courtroom - "and Then it Got Weird"

A dozen or so people sent me this media story over the weekend involving a West Virginia judge who has been accused of pulling a gun in his courtroom, mocking the "man purse" of a Texas lawyer's ex-CIA private security contractor, and otherwise treating her abusively and unfairly. It was first published in the Daily Beast, and also was published in the WV Record on Friday. Now it's even made the Daily Mail. This involves West Virginia state court Circuit Court Judge David Hummel, in the small town of New Martinsville, in Wetzel County, West Virginia, who presided over a trial regarding gas royalty payments to landowners back in March, being tried by a Texas corporate attorney, Lauren Varnado. She is apparently the source of the allegations. Despite this going viral in the national news, I'm going to point out something to you that I think they may have overlooked. More on that in a minute.

Read more: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2022/07/18/wv-judge-pulls-gun-in-courtroom-and-then-it-got-weird/

ETA: for some reason the end portion was cut-off on upload. While I try to remedy that, the Facebook version has the full video: https://fb.watch/emqkmtitvS/