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(NewsNation) — A Kentucky sheriff who allegedly fatally changeable his county's judge feared for his life, and that of his family, erstwhile arrested by his deputies, bodycam video shows.
Newly released video taken conscionable moments aft now-former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn "Mickey" Stines allegedly near Judge Kevin Mullins dormant connected the level of his ain chambers successful 2024 shows Stine's authorities of fear, suggesting to his deputies, "You're gonna termination me."
The bodycam footage came from a authorities trooper who says he's known Stines his full life.
Stines repeated "I don't consciousness safe" to the arresting officers and 1 lawman told Stines not to interest and "I ain't gonna fto thing hap to you."
Former FBI Special Agent Bobby Chacon joined "Banfield" to sermon the footage and yet drew the decision that Stines "wasn't seeking justice" erstwhile helium allegedly changeable the judge.
"It's truly pugnacious to archer whether oregon not he's genuinely disoriented and confused oregon he's trying to play those astatine the country into immoderate benignant of sympathy; he's inactive acting similar he's successful charge," Chacon told NewsNation.
"He's inactive acting similar he's making decisions. So it's truly ... a bizarre, precise unsocial concern for the officers involved."
Chacon described it arsenic a "very antithetic circumstance" and contempt the familiarities betwixt those involved, Chacon would've been firmer amid Stines' concerns they were going to execution him.
"I would person simply reminded him that, 'No one's doing immoderate sidesplitting here, Mickey, but you, you're a acold blooded murderer,'" Chacon said.
"You know, this is 1 of those uncommon situations wherever ... determination is nary quality of what happened. The lone sidesplitting that was done present contiguous is you killed somebody."
Last week, NewsNation spoke to a pistillate who alleged Judge Mullins would request sex to get offenders retired of trouble.
Audio recordings were aboriginal found that could bespeak a imaginable sex-for-favors scheme, not conscionable successful the courthouse but besides among galore radical successful the tiny municipality of Whitesburg.
