The first black female sheriff btw

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Susan Hudson becomes the first African American woman to serve as sheriff in Louisiana, symbolizing a historic barrier break.

Nate the Lawyer critiques Susan Hudson’s tenure as Orleans Parish Sheriff, detailing a cascade of controversies, a 30-count indictment, and broader New Orleans political turmoil.

Summary

Nate the Lawyer dives into the historic yet troubled tenure of Susan Hudson, Louisiana’s first Black female sheriff. He traces her 2022 rise on a progressive platform, her lack of prior political or law enforcement experience, and the mass jailbreak that sparked a state investigation. The video then chronicles a string of controversies: jail conditions deteriorating under her watch, a contempt of court finding over inmate transport, and audits revealing payroll fraud and staffing shortfalls. Nate highlights a 30-felony indictment tied to the jailbreak investigation, plus related financial questions about hotel rooms reserved for deputies. He also connects Hudson’s case to wider New Orleans political headaches, noting concurrent federal charges against Mayor Latoya Cantrell. Throughout, he interlaces courtroom dynamics, audit findings, and public responses, finishing with a provocative question about accountability for leaders who promise reform but are accused of malfeasance. The language is sharp, with references to sources like the Fourth Circuit stay and the inspector general’s office, and it ends with Nate urging viewers to consider who’s actually running the city while encouraging engagement on the debate.

Key Takeaways

  • Susan Hudson was elected in 2022 as the first Black woman sheriff in Louisiana, based on a progressive reform platform despite no prior law enforcement experience.
  • A state investigation and indictments allege Hudson’s office enabled a mass jail escape in New Orleans by allegedly ignoring monitors and falsifying security records (30 felony counts mentioned in coverage).
  • Audits from the Legislative Auditor reported payroll fraud potential involving 179 deputies and more than 1,300 questionable payroll events across three years.
  • Jail conditions deteriorated under her tenure, with reports of understaffing, inadequate cell block security patrols, and a three-day high-security pod standoff.
  • Transparency issues arose around hotel room bookings for out-of-town backfill staff duringParade security, totaling about $18,000 in largely unused rooms.
  • Hudson’s defense framed the case as a matter of performance, not criminality, while prosecutors argued falsified records and obstructed justice.
  • The video links Hudson’s troubles to broader New Orleans political turmoil, noting parallel federal charges against Mayor Latoya Cantrell and her former bodyguard.

Who Is This For?

Essential viewing for viewers following Louisiana politics, especially those tracking reform-driven sheriffs, audit findings, and high-profile indictments in New Orleans. It keeps you informed about how progressive platforms can collide with governance and accountability.

Notable Quotes

"First black female sheriff in the state of Louisiana has been indicted on 30 felony counts."
Opening framing of Hudson’s indictment and historical milestone.
"Hudson is indicted in connection with an investigation into last year's jailbreak in New Orleans."
Key breaking news tying the indictment to the mass escape.
"The inspector general finds that sheriff reserved 13 rooms at the Omni Royal Orleans for her command staff, not for out-of-towners."
Details on hotel room bookings and potential misspending.
"Auditor found deputies performed less than 30% of required security checks and payroll fraud potential involving 179 deputies over 3 years."
Concrete flaws in staffing and oversight documented by auditors.
"This is not what it seems. I will aggressively fight to clear my name."
Hudson’s response to the indictment and defense stance.

Questions This Video Answers

  • What led to the 30 felony indictment of Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hudson?
  • How did the Orleans jail mass escape impact New Orleans politics in 2022 and beyond?
  • What did the inspector general’s report reveal about hotel room bookings for sheriff deputies?
  • What is the connection between Sheriff Hudson’s case and Mayor Cantrell’s federal charges?
  • Did the Fourth Circuit stay influence the ongoing legal actions against the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office?
Louisiana politicsOrleans Parish Sheriff’s OfficeSusan HudsonNew Orleans jail conditionsMass jail escape 2022Payroll fraud auditFourth Circuit court orderMayor Latoya Cantrell indictmentIndependent police monitorJail transportation court orders
Full Transcript
First black female sheriff indicted on 30 30 Oh my god. Susan Hudson is not only the first female sheriff of Orleans Parish. She's also the state's first black woman to occupy the sheriff's office in the state. Period. We're going to talk about history. Um when you do break a glass ceiling, you got to celebrate it. A new sheriff in town. Susan Hudson breaking barriers indeed as the first African-American female sheriff in the state's history. If you Oh boy. Here we go. Moments later, breaking news. Orle Sheriff Susan Hudson is indicted on 30 felony counts. So 30 felonies. Holy [ __ ] The first black female sheriff in the state of Louisiana has been indicted on 30 felony counts. Jesus, you can't make this stuff up. That's why what the [ __ ] That's crazy. Yes. Here's a quick message from our sponsor, Rumble Wallet. You already know why people are moving to crypto. Because here's the problem. Most wallets still plug into the same system we're trying to escape in the first place. 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You're solely responsible for your I have this [ __ ] too actually. Funds and recovery phase. Cryptocurrency values can fluctuate and may result in loss. This is not financial advice. Review all terms at wallet.rumble.com before you. This is Susan Hudson and she's about to make history being the first black female sheriff in Louisiana's history. The first sheriff in the entire the first black female sheriff in the entire history of Louisiana just happened in 2022. And then she went and got arrested on 30 felonies. Wow. We're going to talk about history. Um, A new sheriff in town, Susan Hudson, African-Amean female sheriff in the I was looking at how long Louisiana's been a state, right? 200 plus years. And and all that time, not one African-American woman has been able to get to this position. Um, 2022, right? And so you're like, it's time for all those barriers to be broken out. First, yeah, well, apparently not. Parade, then the inauguration ceremony. Now, Susan Hudson is a political activist. She's extremely progressive and leftwing. And before, no way becoming sheriff, she actually served as the independent police monitor for New Orleans. Let me give you a little bit of a background of Susan Hudson. She's running on a progressive platform and she scored a major endorsement from Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams who also ran on that similar progressive platform when during his race last year. Now Hudson has no political experience but says it's time for a change and she's focusing on what so it's she has no political experience but she's a black woman so vote for her anyway. Okay. Right. It's time for a change. Great. She calls the 3C ideology care, custody, and control. I thought it was crime, crime, and crime. But I guess you're missing 27 C's before voters named her sheriff. She spent 11 years as New Orleans independent police monitor. So you have this extremely progressive sheriff whose plan essentially is, we don't really want to punish people. We don't want to put people in jail for their crimes. We want to pretend like crime doesn't exist. By the way, this is the reason and the way that a lot of these people create the perception that crime goes down when they run cities. It's because they just No. Well, if we don't write the crime down, then it doesn't get recorded. And if it doesn't get recorded, then the crime goes down. That's exactly what they do. This is horrible for the people of New Orleans because New Orleans has a huge crime problem. Remember when the district attorney of New Orleans was actually carjacked with his mom? Wait, the district attorney got carjacked. My mother's really shook up. Um, she keeps reliving it. Um, but we're just thankful that um that we're alive. Nobody's hurt. This is surveillance video from moments after the teens allegedly stole Williams car. Aa Curtis, Dejon Curtis, Santan Gilmore, and Ahmad Seals have all been charged as adults in this case. So, the people of New Orleans said, "Hey, let's hire the most progressive anti- police person we could as sheriff." And that's what they did. So, what do you think happened? Well, obviously things went off the rails immediately. See, since she is sheriff, she handles the jails. And immediately inmates went crazy and conditions at the jail worsened under her tenure. Yeah. But weeks into Hudson's tenure, inmates in a high security pod at the Orleans Justice Center barricaded themselves in that pod, blocking out St. What are you pulling your [ __ ] What are you doing, man? Jesus, bro, you're sagging in prison. I feel like honestly, isn't that leaving yourself open? I don't know if that's a good idea. That standoff lasted 3 days with inmates better conditions. A report by federal jail monitors claimed that conditions in the jail had worsened in some cases under Hudson's oversight. So under the progressive sheriff, things actually got worse for the turn. And then the controversies just started racking up. For instance, her incompetence caused the court to hold her in contempt because she wasn't securing transportation from inmates from the jail to the court. in a world. So this [ __ ] just big. So she's big [ __ ] because I at the beginning I didn't really know. I mean this is this looks like a situation of big [ __ ] Judge is accusing the sheriff of contempt of court and she's now being ordered to appear before that judge tomorrow afternoon. Criminal District Chief Judge Tracy Fleming's Davalier says that Sheriff Susan Hudson is ignoring a court order to transport recent arrestes from jail to Mattress Court on weekends and holidays. Now, during the pandemic, that process was paused, going to Zoom and then doing transports during the week. However, on June 18th, the judge issued an order for Hudson to resume those weekend and holiday transports beginning this past Saturday. Now, this became so bad they were going to sentence her to like 6 months in prison with a $500 fine, but they're going to put the sheriff in prison, and this wasn't enough. The appeals court last second stepped in and said, "Let's slow it down because she is the sheriff." Last Friday, big mistake. The fourth circuit court of appeals temporarily suspended Sheriff. I mean, it's just a bunch of hags making decisions like that, too. Garen [ __ ] you know that Hudson's contempt of court ruling at the last minute and WWL exclusively received the documents supporting that stay by the fourth circuit court of appeals. Sheriff Susan Hudson was said to face up to 6 months imprisonment or a fine of up to $500. That's because the chief judge of Orleans Parish Criminal Court How's that, Dude? That's not even like what do you mean, bro? Like 6 months in prison or 500 bucks? Like I feel like that's not fair. Like cuz the 500 is too easy. Like $500 it's nothing. Held the sheriff contempt of court for failing to provide a staff of deputies for magistrate court for weekend sessions. Now if being founding attempt to court is not enough, the money started becoming a little funny. Now context is key. During Migra, the city is packed. Local law enforcement needs backup. The sheriff backfills her staff by bringing officers from other parishes. Since these officers are coming from out of town, the protocol is to reserve hotel rooms for them so they can have a place to stay while they work those grueling shifts. Now, as per protocol, the sheriff reserved the total of 90 rooms across multiple hotels. And obviously, these rooms couldn't be used by the sheriff's own staff because they lived in the city and they can just go home. So, why would the sheriff's department need to pay for hotel rooms for the local staff they live? Are you telling me that she's sending everybody up on a vacation? Information from the New Orleans Office of Inspector General about Sheriff Hudson's hotel reservations during Marty Gro. The rooms were supposed to be used by law enforcement who had to drive into town to help the NOPD during parades. But in a new report, the inspector general finds that the sheriff reserved 13 rooms at the Omni Royal Orleans for her command staff, not for any out oftowners. her just [ __ ] pissing away your money. She not she don't. So the jails are [ __ ] up. Nobody's getting taken to court and she pissing away your money buying [ __ ] hotels for her friends. Staff members stayed there for a total of 37 nights, but the sheriff had reserved and paid for nights. the total cost of and the thing is that like if it was a good sheriff and things were going fine, everybody would be like, "All right, but like whenever you have all the other car, you're already on two strikes. They've already had to deal with enough of your [ __ ] and now you want to go and do this." Oh, okay. That's too much. $18,000. And according to the OIG, most of that came from the 53 nights when the rooms remained empty. So, the sheriff had a lot to answer. She spent all the money. It didn't even they didn't even use it. Why is your staff staying in high-end hotels when they live in the same city? Here's what the sheriff had to say. I don't see a controversy here. No, I see this as being money. Don't tell me it's racism. Well spent to make sure that a million dollars was also well spent. That was Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hudson defending her decision to house 13 top deputies at local hotels. Doesn't even make sense. Some for 11 days and nights while they helped with Carnival Parade security. But within hours of that interview, here was Hudson again. An honorary deputy of the Orleans Fair Sheriff's Office. Love my sheriff. That was Hudson thanking the owners of LA K9, a police dog training company in Vermillion Parish. The company agreed to donate more than $19,000 to pay for those hotel rooms at the Omni Royal Orleans, Sherin, and Marriott. However, in this Facebook post by one of the owners, Lance Brussard, he characterized the donation as helping the sheriff with quote, "A little problem." So, crisis averted. The city got all its money back and the sheriff was off the hook. Now we got a problem. We got this woman who's been elected sheriff. She's supposed to be in charge of running a jail but has no experience. [ __ ] hole. That's a total [ __ ] hole. But what really does have to does it have to be like that? Experience running jails. So things kind of got out of control. Legislative audit just released today scrutinized three years of operations at the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Department. It found over a thousand instances of potential payroll fraud leading to chronic staff shortages and missing cell block security patrols. Oh, so just so basically she did everything wrong. Oh my god. Auditor found deputies performed less than 30% of required sale checks and some cell blocks just performing 4% of those timed security patrols. Staffing is a source of the problem. According to the report, with some deputies allowed to double book shifts, staffing offduty details at the same time they're scheduled to secure the jail. The auditor counting over,300 instances of what the report describes as this potential payroll fraud involving 179 deputies over 3 years. So, holy [ __ ] how does this happen? You see, the sheriff wasn't really doing a great job. And then you had the fact that there was a massive jailbreak. Massive manhunt after a stunning jailbreak in New Orleans. Is this the [ __ ] that I watched? Wait a minute. Is this the thing that I watched whenever they said like, you know, they they they broke out and they said easy as [ __ ] or something like that. Two inmates escaping. Some charged with murder. All considered armed and dangerous. And authorities tonight investigating whether this was an inside job. Here's ABC's Maria Vrial. Tonight, these stunning images from inside a New Orleans jail cell where 10 inmates, some charged I Yes, we watched this entire thing. And the thing is, didn't they I think they caught all of them. They did charged with murder, escaped, sparking an urgent citywide manhunt. Y the toilet dislodged from a cell wall, exposing an opening scrolled on the wall. I'm Dude, I'm crossed out. It says we innocent man. We innocent. All above. We innocent and too easy. Yes. Too easy. Oh my god. This is amazing. I remember watching this. It was so good. With an arrow toward the hole where they escaped out of view of the officer on duty. Yeah, the inmate was right. This was too easy. So, here's what authorities said happened. Authorities say it happened just after midnight when the inmates broke a lock on a cell door. They were still able to exit the jail about 10:01 a.m. after breaching a wall behind a toilet in the jail. Uh, and based on video surveillance, they were seen exiting a door on the docks where we normally bring in supplies. Go, BOYS. GO. WE'RE FREE NOW. Roach out quick. Scaling a wall and running AC across the interstate. Officials believe the escapees had help. These detainees received assistance in their escape from individuals inside of our department. They say the toilet could not be removed with bare hands, suggesting someone inside the jail system may have helped the inmates unscrew it with a power tool. And yes, there was an inside man. Police arrested him. The hunt continues for the inmates still at large after breaking out of the local jail in New Orleans. But cops say they've found the inside man they believed helped them. A maintenance worker at the jail has been arrested, accused of cutting off the water. The jail worker has been identified as 33-year-old Sterling Williams. No way. He's 33. Damn. Damn, bro. Like, whoa. He reportedly claims he was coerced into turning off the water by an inmate who threatened to shank him if he didn't play ball. Now, just to put everyone's mind at ease, all 10 of those convicts were returned back to prison. And I'm going to be honest, like, y'all stupid. You get caught again. Like, how'd you get caught again? Like I mean I feel like if I got if I got out I probably would be able to to escape. I would like every every single one they stayed in the city. So they broke out and they probably went back. We go to Darnell's house. Well, we got him. Where was he? He was at his house. Well, come on. Come on back. We're not done with you yet. Another development months in the making. The last of 10 inmates who escaped from Louisiana jail in May was captured today in Atlanta. Officials say a crime stoppers tipped this summer led them there. And they found a fugitive hiding in a crawl space. 10 men who escaped from a Louisiana jail in May by crawling through a hole cut in the wall behind a toilet. Above the hole, someone had written messages to the jailers, including this misspelled one. Too easy, lol. Groves was the last of the 10 escapees to be found and also the most violent. He was convicted of murdering two men on Marty Gro in 2018. The New Orleans prosecutor says he is facing multiple life sentences. So, obviously, it seems like we had a bigger problem at play here. So, state investigators looked at the whole department to see how things were being run. And after the investigation, they decided it was time to indict the sheriff. We start with some major breaking news. Or Par Sheriff Susan Hudson indicted in connection with an investigation into last year's jailbreak in New Orleans. So, this indictment comes in connection with a state investigation by Attorney General Liz Merl's office into last year's mass escape by 10 inmates. The bombshell news came down within just the last hour. Arrest warrants released Thursday outlined some of the state's evidence, alleging Hudson ignored years of federal monitors, repeated warnings that quote enabled 10 dangerous inmates to escape and remain undetected for hours. Well, no, they they were go they were running wild for days, if not weeks. The warrant describes the jail as understaffed and inmates unsupervised, often relying on one I could yet know what I believe that staff member to monitor multiple pods from a control room rather than inside the pod. The warrant also alleges security logs were falsified and the prison's high security unit dissolved during hours of unsupervised time. A federal monitor found inmates were quote assaulting other inmates, assaulting staff, destroying property, starting fires, smoking, possessing dangerous contraband, and/or threatening self harm. So they hitting each other, they killing themselves, they smoking weed, they It's a party. Yeah. In addition to 14 malfeence charges and three charges of filing or maintaining false public records, Hudson is also accused of obstructing justice and conspiring with CFO Bianca Brown to defy a court order. Brown was indicted on 20 similar counts. The arrest warrants are just a peak at the evidence to come. So now the sheriff's been arrested, got bonded, and made a statement saying, "Hey, this is not what it seems." Susan Hudson says she expects complete vindication as she faces 30 felony counts. In a statement released surely released late Thursday, Sheriff Susan Hudson said she will quote aggressively fight to clear my name. And she is quote confident the facts will vindicate both me personally and the work I have done. Fox 8 legal analyst Joe Ranti expects unsurprising strategies from defense attorneys and state prosecutors. The defense is going to say that, "Hey, we tried as hard as we could. We were just weren't good enough." And you can't uh convict somebody for being not good at what their job is. Yeah, you can. It's called malpractice. Yeah. I mean, if you [ __ ] up big time, you absolutely I think we should do that. I think if you [ __ ] up big time, something's got to happen. Now, this left me to thinking, who the hell is running the city of New Orleans? The mayor's indicted. has been a historic day in New Orleans. What? Wait a minute. The mayor, too. For the first time, a sitting mayor of New Orleans is facing federal charges. Today, a federal grand jury handed up an indictment against Mayor Latoya Canrell and her former bodyguard Jeffrey Vappy. She faces 11 counts, including wire fraud, obstruction, and lying to a grand jury. This all centers around their alleged romantic relationship and how much Why, bro? Why? I mean, come on. You could do better than that, man. It cost the city of New Orleans. Okay. So, it seems like the sheriff is going to say, "Hey, just because I'm bad at my job doesn't mean it's criminal." I had no experience ever in law enforcement and I got the top law enforcement job because I am extremely progressive. That doesn't mean this is criminal. I'm just bad at being a sheriff. And it's going to be the prosecutors that are going to have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was more than that. That she falsified documents as you as you heard. that she intentionally let the jail deteriorate to a point where these things could happen and then on top of that lied about it. So, who do you think has the better case, the prosecution or the defense? Do you think the sheriff is going to jail? If you hear at this point, I hate this [ __ ] whenever people think that like, oh, it's like claiming insanity. It's like, bro, you insane. Okay, all right. Well, we got to put you in. We got to lock you up big time then. Like, really? Like, what is this? Like people forget back in the old days commanders and generals were routinely executed for not doing their jobs. Yeah. Like why we put up with this [ __ ] It's crazy, man. Oh my gosh. She's cooked. I hope so. I really do. I hope so. Like god damn. That'd be amazing. Video. Don't forget like, share, subscribe, do all that great YouTube stuff. My name is Nate the lawyer. I'm out. Peace. There it is. Like I I've watched a few of other of Nate's videos. He's really good. I like him a lot. I'm going to link you guys a video. Make sure to give it a like and a sub, man. And uh she's cooked. Ain't no way. 30 counts, bro. Imagine fighting off 30 [ __ ] felonies, man. And and also like there's another component to this where it's like it just makes you look so bad whenever it's like you you run on all these like DEI qualifications and then you [ __ ] the bed so bad that you're legal defense has to be that you're [ __ ] Like I mean think about how bad that is. Like that's crazy. How do you do that to yourself? Married anybody? Nah, bro. We passed that. We're past that entirely. I'll link yall the video again. Yeah, Nate's good. Yeah, do it yourself. It It's embarrassing. We already knew that. Yeah. It's just so sad.

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