re: ‘Business Report’ Publisher: Judge Mike Erwin should step down

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But the Feb. 14 Advocate story noted, “According to the original incident report filed by deputies who responded to a complaint on Feb. 3, a man who said he witnessed the argument between Erwin and Kaneitra Johnson approached deputies in the bar after they’d interviewed Erwin and the judge’s companion, motioning with his head to the officers to go speak outside.

“‘I don’t know who that old white guy is, but he had no right to talk to those girls the way he did,’ the man said outside the restaurant, according to one deputy. ‘I was sitting right next to them and heard/saw the entire incident with my wife and he talked to those girls like they were dogs using racist language.’”

The witness identified himself to deputies as “from Houma” and “white,” but his name was marked out in the released report, as were the names of all other witnesses. But it seems in the follow-up investigation, the man from Houma suspiciously no longer remembered the story and said he never made those comments to the deputies.

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