Before I turned around to face him I stopped my Pandora app (which I was listening to via a large pair of light blue Bluetooth headphones) and started my Ustream Widget, which I have strategically placed on my phone in the case of an event like this.” The next thing I knew the inevitable was happening because that same cop was now following behind me and, using his car lamp, had a bright beam of light surrounding me. When you’re a black man and have had as many unnecessary encounters with police as I have you tend to grow a Spidey Sense, so I took my phone out of my pocket in preparation for what I knew was coming. One of the last ones that had driven by seemed to linger and I knew instinctively that he was taking a good look at me as he was slowing down. “I was maybe a block or so away when I noticed one police cruiser after another racing toward me on the opposite side of the street blaring their lights and sirens. Meanwhile he launched a civil rights suit against the City of Fullerton in which it appears he prevailed – Botzheim was fired, and Nickolas says he was awarded $100K (a claim which I assume is true but I’m still looking for a record of that.) In any case here’s the video of the incident – there’s never a lack of video with Wildstar! As he told interviewer Jeff Pearlman: He was arrested by Officer Robert Botzheim, and after it was determined that Nickolas was not a suspect, Botzheim charged him with resisting arrest, a charge Nickolas beat in a jury trial. As you can see in the video below, Nickolas was notably angry and uncooperative, as was his right. Apparently there’d been an attempted burglary not far away and the suspects were black, but they were in no way 6’4″, 200+ lbs, with shoulder-length hair and dressed nice for work like Nickolas was. In a way, the whole chain of events started on Martin Luther King Day, 2017, when Wildstar was racially profiled and wrongfully arrested by two Fullerton cops for Walking to Work While Black in the pre-dawn hours of 5-something-AM.
Even if that comes at the risk of spending six years away from his wife and one-year-old son. But still Federal Courts as well as many states including California forbid cameras or videotaping.Īnd Nickolas Wildstar, not a Sovereign Citizen but a self-styled “Sovereign Being,” is not someone who will obey a law he finds unconstitutional or unjust. Most of us think that’s a stupid law, and possibly unconstitutional, as the Sixth Amendment guarantees us “the right to a speedy and public trial” … and nowadays many trials are even livestreamed on YouTube. And the DA seems inclined to throw the maximum charge at the fiery Libertarian for his unrepentant “contempt.”Īnd how did Nickolas show contempt to the court, you ask? Mainly, by recording the proceedings, which everybody knows is against the law.
Six years for what, you ask? Six years for six charges of contempt of court, each charge of which can carry a maximum of a year. And he would like it if a lot of us showed up at 8am before his hearing for a demonstration, protesting that this sentence is hell of excessive, which it is. Nickolas Wildstar, the Libertarian who is on his third run for California Governor (along with runs for Fullerton Council and Fresno Mayor) is facing a possible six years in jail when he returns to OC for for his sentencing at the Santa Ana Superior Court this Friday morning March 12.