August 18, 2025 • 7 mins
Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to a judge who misread a ‘not guilty’ verdict, sending the entire courtroom into shock. Listen for more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Donkey up to day time. Damn he hog, it's started
the donkey of the King. I mean, trying to be
donkey today. No more. They should be embarrassed by what
they already did. I'm not making these people do these days.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Called donkey of the day, and it really put me
off guard. Damn Charlamagne, who got the Donkey of the
day today?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Well, just hilarious donkey today for Monday, August eighteenth, goes
to a Fulton County judge named Henry Newkirk. I keep
telling y'all over and over that these judges be playing.
Okay when they sendenced people to life plus seventy years,
what the hell does that mean? Do I wake up
in prison in my next life? And when a judge
gives you two hundred years? At some point we have
(00:42):
to ask the judge, why are you playing with me?
Just simply tell me I'm never coming home. Wu tang
is forever, and so is my prison sentence. And when
the judges do the month's thing, Oh my god, we
sentence you to six hundred months. You're thinking yourself six
hundred months. Start doing the math. That's fifty years, okay,
fifty years? Stop playing with me. Judge, Well, I bring
to you today another example of a judge plan. See
(01:04):
Alton Oliver was found not guilty in connection with the
killing of Fulton County Deputy James Thomas. Not guilty in
the killing of a deputy. I haven't been following the case.
I hadn't even heard of the case until I saw
this news story. But you kill a police officer and
get found not guilty in America, I need to know
what type of lucky charms you hold it? Okay, you
(01:24):
must got the pink cards, yellow moons, arms, stars, and
green cloveres.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Okay, Lord have mercy. Would you like to know what happened? Well?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oliver was accused of shooting and killing Deputy Thomas while
he was off duty in in his personal car.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Oliver claimed self defense, alleging that Deputy James Thomas solicited
him for sex. Yes, Oliver testified that he was walking
home when Thomas drove up beside him three different times,
leading to the alleged solicitation in shooting. Now, I imagine
if women shot and killed all the guys that try
(02:00):
to holler at them, you know that they didn't want
to be hollered at. Bye that's a discussion for another day.
But Alton Olible was found not guilty and I don't
think the judge liked the decision too much because even
though he was found not guilty, the judge let his
inside thoughts slip out. What do you mean the judge
let his inside thought slip out. Let's go to channel
to a news for the report police.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
A jury found a man not guilty of murdering a
Fulton County deputy. Challeter's Richard Elliott is lie outside of
the Fulton County Courthouse with how the judge in the case,
Richard actually misread that verdict at first.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Yeah, this all went down just before four o'clock this afternoon.
It was one of the strangest endings to a trial
I have ever seen in forty years of covering trials.
Alton Oliver on trial for the murder of Fulton County
Deputy James Thomas Junior. Jury comes back in hands the
verdict form to the judge. Judge Henry Knukirk reads the verdict,
(02:51):
only it wasn't the actual verdict. He misread it in
the open court. Here's some video of how it all unfolded.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
The verdict we the jury find that Finn guilty as
to all six councils deep deuil of indictment. I'm sure
for your flet handus to council with the jury find
(03:18):
that Thinan not guilty on all six counts. I apologize
for my mispronunciation.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You know what that that ain't funny? Hell you would do?
Let me hear it one more time, isolated ready knew
what the hell he was doing.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
With the jury, find that Fine guilty as to all
six councils deep deil of indictment. I'm sure for your
flet handus to council with the jury find that thenon
not guilty on all six counts. I apologize for my mispronuncia.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Why you laugh funny? He laughing because he knew he
was trying to be funny.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
The family was relatively cool when that guilty verdict was read, too.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Though.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
This is like somebody playing with you about winning the
powerball when the powerball is six hundred and five million,
like it is right now, Okay. This is like somebody
telling you that you're not the father on Maury when
you are the father and want to be the father
and have already been.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
In the child's life for a bit.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Okay, this is like a doctor telling you that you're
not pregnant, even though your period has to come on
in two months and you clearly are pregnant. So why
is the doctor playing with you? Okay, let me tell
you something, Alton. You better get the hell out of
Fulton Counting. Okay, you need to get the hell out
of Georgia period.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay. Judge Newkirk said guilty because that's what.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
He believes you to be, and if he believes you
to be, that so through a lot of other law
enforcement officials in Georgia. Okay, you need to relocate because
Judge Newkirk tried to kill you. Okay, he thought if
he told you that you were guilty, you was gonna
go into cardiac arrest right there and die.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Okay, listen, this is a.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Prime example of the weight of words in life, and
especially in a court.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Words carry a lot of weight. Okay. One slip can
mean heartbreak, panic, or relief.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So this is just yet another example of why we
have to choose all words carefully, especially when you're a
damn judge in the court room. Please give Judge Henry
Nwkirk the biggest he hull.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You can tell sentences, you can just tell Yeah, and
you said the family was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I didn't see the video either, but when you listen
to the audio.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh yeah, nobody reacted like react at all late.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It probably was shocked though at first, like yeah, that
is crazy. But I'm gonna tell you one thing.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
If I had to kill everybody wild at me, I
would be on a thermon and kill bill everybody left
and right.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's what I'm saying, Like, you get off stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Faded over the girl, But I can understand why he
would also feel threatened to if somebody's absolutely pulling out
next to you in the car quite a few times.
At some point you're like, all right, bro, height chill out,
back up off. Yeah, if that means shooting killed, but no,
not at all.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
But thank you for that.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
Donkey of the day. Now, let's open up the phone
lines eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
We just played an audio during Just with the Mess
Tracy Ellis Ross. She was talking about President Barack Obama
not telling her somebody she was dating wasn't the one.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Let's hit the audio.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Well, I broke up with somebody, No, listen, we don't
have to get into it. I broke up with someone
and I remember running into the former president and she
was like, all I would have told you that, And
I was like, well, you failed as a friend, Like
it was your job to say that before.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You know what I mean, like snip it in the bike.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
Yes, no, nip it not snippet you nip it right.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
So we're asking eight hundred five eight five, one oh
five to one. If your friend is dating someone you
know isn't a good fit, or you know what's not
going to work, do you step in and say something
or do you let them figure it out on their own?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
That is the question. Definitely step You want me to
answer the name when we come back.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
When we come back, come back, drink five eight five,
one oh five one.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Let's dicuss. This's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Donkey 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.
Donkey up to day time. Damn he hog, it's started
the donkey of the King. I mean, trying to be
donkey today. No more. They should be embarrassed by what
they already did. I'm not making these people do these days.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Called donkey of the day, and it really put me
off guard. Damn Charlamagne, who got the Donkey of the
day today?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Well, just hilarious donkey today for Monday, August eighteenth, goes
to a Fulton County judge named Henry Newkirk. I keep
telling y'all over and over that these judges be playing.
Okay when they sendenced people to life plus seventy years,
what the hell does that mean? Do I wake up
in prison in my next life? And when a judge
gives you two hundred years? At some point we have
(00:42):
to ask the judge, why are you playing with me?
Just simply tell me I'm never coming home. Wu tang
is forever, and so is my prison sentence. And when
the judges do the month's thing, Oh my god, we
sentence you to six hundred months. You're thinking yourself six
hundred months. Start doing the math. That's fifty years, okay,
fifty years? Stop playing with me. Judge, Well, I bring
to you today another example of a judge plan. See
(01:04):
Alton Oliver was found not guilty in connection with the
killing of Fulton County Deputy James Thomas. Not guilty in
the killing of a deputy. I haven't been following the case.
I hadn't even heard of the case until I saw
this news story. But you kill a police officer and
get found not guilty in America, I need to know
what type of lucky charms you hold it? Okay, you
(01:24):
must got the pink cards, yellow moons, arms, stars, and
green cloveres.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Okay, Lord have mercy. Would you like to know what happened? Well?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oliver was accused of shooting and killing Deputy Thomas while
he was off duty in in his personal car.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Oliver claimed self defense, alleging that Deputy James Thomas solicited
him for sex. Yes, Oliver testified that he was walking
home when Thomas drove up beside him three different times,
leading to the alleged solicitation in shooting. Now, I imagine
if women shot and killed all the guys that try
(02:00):
to holler at them, you know that they didn't want
to be hollered at. Bye that's a discussion for another day.
But Alton Olible was found not guilty and I don't
think the judge liked the decision too much because even
though he was found not guilty, the judge let his
inside thoughts slip out. What do you mean the judge
let his inside thought slip out. Let's go to channel
to a news for the report police.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
A jury found a man not guilty of murdering a
Fulton County deputy. Challeter's Richard Elliott is lie outside of
the Fulton County Courthouse with how the judge in the case,
Richard actually misread that verdict at first.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Yeah, this all went down just before four o'clock this afternoon.
It was one of the strangest endings to a trial
I have ever seen in forty years of covering trials.
Alton Oliver on trial for the murder of Fulton County
Deputy James Thomas Junior. Jury comes back in hands the
verdict form to the judge. Judge Henry Knukirk reads the verdict,
(02:51):
only it wasn't the actual verdict. He misread it in
the open court. Here's some video of how it all unfolded.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
The verdict we the jury find that Finn guilty as
to all six councils deep deuil of indictment. I'm sure
for your flet handus to council with the jury find
(03:18):
that Thinan not guilty on all six counts. I apologize
for my mispronunciation.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You know what that that ain't funny? Hell you would do?
Let me hear it one more time, isolated ready knew
what the hell he was doing.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
With the jury, find that Fine guilty as to all
six councils deep deil of indictment. I'm sure for your
flet handus to council with the jury find that thenon
not guilty on all six counts. I apologize for my mispronuncia.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Why you laugh funny? He laughing because he knew he
was trying to be funny.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
The family was relatively cool when that guilty verdict was read, too.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Though.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
This is like somebody playing with you about winning the
powerball when the powerball is six hundred and five million,
like it is right now, Okay. This is like somebody
telling you that you're not the father on Maury when
you are the father and want to be the father
and have already been.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
In the child's life for a bit.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Okay, this is like a doctor telling you that you're
not pregnant, even though your period has to come on
in two months and you clearly are pregnant. So why
is the doctor playing with you? Okay, let me tell
you something, Alton. You better get the hell out of
Fulton Counting. Okay, you need to get the hell out
of Georgia period.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay. Judge Newkirk said guilty because that's what.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
He believes you to be, and if he believes you
to be, that so through a lot of other law
enforcement officials in Georgia. Okay, you need to relocate because
Judge Newkirk tried to kill you. Okay, he thought if
he told you that you were guilty, you was gonna
go into cardiac arrest right there and die.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Okay, listen, this is a.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Prime example of the weight of words in life, and
especially in a court.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Words carry a lot of weight. Okay. One slip can
mean heartbreak, panic, or relief.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So this is just yet another example of why we
have to choose all words carefully, especially when you're a
damn judge in the court room. Please give Judge Henry
Nwkirk the biggest he hull.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You can tell sentences, you can just tell Yeah, and
you said the family was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I didn't see the video either, but when you listen
to the audio.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh yeah, nobody reacted like react at all late.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It probably was shocked though at first, like yeah, that
is crazy. But I'm gonna tell you one thing.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
If I had to kill everybody wild at me, I
would be on a thermon and kill bill everybody left
and right.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's what I'm saying, Like, you get off stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Faded over the girl, But I can understand why he
would also feel threatened to if somebody's absolutely pulling out
next to you in the car quite a few times.
At some point you're like, all right, bro, height chill out,
back up off. Yeah, if that means shooting killed, but no,
not at all.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
But thank you for that.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
Donkey of the day. Now, let's open up the phone
lines eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
We just played an audio during Just with the Mess
Tracy Ellis Ross. She was talking about President Barack Obama
not telling her somebody she was dating wasn't the one.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Let's hit the audio.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Well, I broke up with somebody, No, listen, we don't
have to get into it. I broke up with someone
and I remember running into the former president and she
was like, all I would have told you that, And
I was like, well, you failed as a friend, Like
it was your job to say that before.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You know what I mean, like snip it in the bike.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
Yes, no, nip it not snippet you nip it right.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
So we're asking eight hundred five eight five, one oh
five to one. If your friend is dating someone you
know isn't a good fit, or you know what's not
going to work, do you step in and say something
or do you let them figure it out on their own?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
That is the question. Definitely step You want me to
answer the name when we come back.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
When we come back, come back, drink five eight five,
one oh five one.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Let's dicuss. This's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Donkey 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.
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