Judge caught on hot mic denigrating Kevin Peterson Jr., calls him: ‘the Black guy they are trying to make an angel out of’ Updated Mar 19, 2021; Posted Mar 13, 2021 District Court Judge Darvin Zimmerman spoke at length about his views of the fatal shooting by police of Kevin Peterson Jr. with District Court Commissioner Abigail Bartlett. Their conversation was recorded on a hot mic earlier this week. Facebook Share A Clark County judge apparently didn’t realize his courtroom conversation was live on YouTube as he referred to a young man killed last fall by sheriff’s deputies as “the Black guy they are trying to make an angel out of” and called him “dumb” for supposedly thinking he would go to prison for a relatively small drug bust.