By CELESTE M. HART
Election season, officially starts after Labor Day, with an abundance of political advertising, daily stuff in your mailbox, robot calls, social media announcements, texts and conflictingly biased news articles. In the instance of WBTV’s reporter, Nick Ochsner, dated, August 9, 2022, he got it in early, eager for that ‘hot off the press’, with a biased, untruthful, unbalanced article about an altercation between District Judge Kimberly Best and a delivery driver, at the court house parking garage entrance on McDowell Street, 9 a.m., on July 19, 2022.
Read Investigative Reporter Ochsner article here:
“The guard later described the situation as “out of control’ in his narrative and said Best refused to leave even after being told to,” Ochsner wrote.
Read the incident report here:
The guard’s narrative, in fact, stated, “The situation was getting out of control when the delivery driver got up in the face of the lady (Best) that was driving the SUV…”
“Judge Best then told the driver to leave.”
“I told the truck driver that she needed to leave but she refused at first,” stated the dock officer.
Best, the truck driver, and the guard, all refused to continue with an investigation, declined to write official reports and refused to press any charges.
“She (Best) felt bad for her and didn’t want her to lose her trucking business. She felt something else was going on behind the accident,” lead officer wrote.
The delivery driver, more concerned about U.S. Marshall involvement, according to the report, left the scene, was contacted later that day and still refused to press charges or file a report.
The accident occurred as Best, signaled by an officer to drive around the 26′ delivery truck that ‘took up a lot of space’, scraped the side of her SUV. An argument commenced. with both drivers yelling at each other.
Best said the delivery should have been earlier and she was late for a virtual court hearing.
The ethical principles in journalism include; truth, accuracy, fairness, impartiality, humanity and accountability, for integrity sake.
Ochsner mentioned in several articles, Judge Best was appointed to Superior Court Judge by Governor Cooper. In fairness, Best won the District judgeship with 66% of the vote, even though, Ochsner, during that campaign, wrote several articles about her incompetency in scheduling court hearings. In fact, the incompetency still exists in the system, not Best’s fault.
“Judge Best has served the Mecklenburg County community well over the years as a District Court judge. I am thrilled for her willingness to serve as a Superior Court judge,” said Cooper, press release, November 23, 2021.
Ochsner engaged the ‘dirt’, such as, Best’s personal business, wrote about her abusing her ex-husband, police calls to the home and her tension with the mistress. He thoroughly researched police reports, court files and hearings, claimed the documents were intentionally hidden, yet, he received, eventually.
“Well, we know it’s election time. The dirtiness will come, the bitter fights, the hate, all for the sake of democracy. That thing with her husband proves she is human. And, there are always two sides to a story. What would you do? We need humanity, not just in the courts but everywhere,” said Roberta Harris, voter.
Election day is November 8th, get educated and vote.
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