On Monday, rapper Joe Budden was charged with lewdness following an incident the place his neighbor claimed seeing him “utterly bare.”
The Edgewater Police in New Jersey launched a press release that on December 4, authorities had been “dispatched to an residence complicated for the report from a resident {that a} man was standing outdoors of their residence door utterly bare. The caller acknowledged the person as a neighbor, Joseph Budden Jr., a 44-year-old male.” The caller was alerted to Budden’s presence by their Ring doorbell digital camera. In line with the report, “The video depicted Budden making an attempt to enter a code into the door keypad a number of instances earlier than reentering his personal residence throughout the corridor.”
“These fees are merely accusations,” chief of police Donald A. Martin famous within the press launch. “The defendant is presumed harmless till and except confirmed responsible past an affordable doubt.”
Budden’s legal professional, Nima Ameri, advised TMZ, “Mr. Budden is saddened by Police Chief Martin’s press launch. Mr. Budden has been ready weeks for his cross complaints to be processed which embody considerably extra severe fees embody potential felony fees in opposition to the individuals behind these fees in opposition to him. The Chief has in our opinion sat on these however as a substitute used his time to achieve some free publicity for himself. Chief Martin ought to search publicity by doing notable policing not inflaming disorderly individual allegations.”
Ameri continued:
“The allegations in opposition to Mr. Budden are a minor cost, not even leading to an arrest. A cost Mr. Budden is wanting ahead to beating in court docket on the deserves, not within the press. The Chief’s feedback are reckless, and in our opinion racially motivated. Our analysis has not proven a single press launch on a disorderly individual cost on the police web site this yr. His option to single out Mr. Budden in our opinion is self motivated and primarily based off of Mr. Budden’s race and celeb standing.”
Earlier this month, Budden deal with his absence from The Joe Budden Podcast. “I simply sleptwalked someplace I shouldn’t have sleptwalked,” he advised his co-hosts, based on Billboard. “You know the way I sleep — buttass. Good nakedass. Good bare sleepwalking. I simply did it once more.”
