Hinds County District 2 Supervisor David L. Archie was arrested Friday for domestic violence. Jackson Municipal Court Judge Jeffrey Reynolds ordered his arrest after holding a probable cause hearing.
This current round of drama began when a a video and several photographs of alleged abuse by Archie appeared on social media recently. A video showed Archie putting what was purportedly his wife's clothes on the street in front of their Clubview Drive home in Jackson in January. Several photographs allegedly showed the removal of the doors from every room in the Clubview home as well.
Hopkins' family held a rally on the steps of the Hinds County Courthouse shortly afterwards. She filed a petition for divorce on January 27 in Hinds County Chancery Court.
Both parties attempted to obtain restraining orders and file charges against each other as well. Judge Reynolds ruled there was not probably cause to arrest Hopkins but said such cause existed for Archie. Archie was arrested and arraigned after the hearing but Judge Reynolds released him on his own recognizance. The Court issued a no-contact order against Archie and also decreed he can not say anything about his wife on social media.
Attorney Martin Perkins represented the Supervisor.
This is not Archie's first arrest for domestic violence. JJ reported on July 12, 2017:
Wife-beatin' apparently is a-ok in Jackson. Jackson Municipal Court
Judge Ali Shamsid-Deen didn't fine nor imprison one David L. Archie for
domestic violence. Jackson police arrested him for domestic
violence on September 7, 2016. His wife contacted JPD on September 3.
The report states:
Officer Juliana Chisholm IBM 1789 met the complainant in the driveway of her home. The complainant gave the officer a statement she had already typed, dated and signed. The complainant stated the incident happened when she walked into the house after returning from a party on September 2, 2016 at 1145 hours. She stated the suspect jumped up yelling at her about a photo that was sent to his phone. The complainant stated the suspect refused to show her the photo and then the suspect wanted to see her phone. The complainant stated she told the suspect no and he began to punch her multiple times. The complainant attempted to get her phone from her purse and the suspect put her in a choke hold. The officer observed heavy bruising scratches and red markings just behind her left shoulder. The complainant did not want AMR and the children were at home but asleep in bed. The complainant said she waited until the suspect went to work and then she went to signs charges on him. She didn't know she had to have a case number.
He was arrested on September 7. Archie was booked but Judge Shamsid-deen released him without requiring a bond. The case went to Judge Shamsid-deen a month later. The Judge Shamsid-deen did not fine nor imprison Archie but did order him and his wife to participate in family counseling.
15 comments:
You would have to be crazy to marry David Archie. But assuming she is crazy (and from all appearances she is), doesn't that mean maybe he is innocent?
I mean, who has a family rally on the courthouse steps?
These things usually end up with charges dropped. Makes good drama and press, but will not amount to anything. The idea of him choking her would allow a Felony charge to be brought against him, but she refused medical attention and waited till later to go to file charges. Like I say, usually a lot of noise but no fines or jail time. This would go even if the police preferred the charges as well as the law says we must take away the Principal Aggressor. Wife doesn't testify the courts usually say we have no way to go forward.
Dang you two, what about the kids! My dad was abusive to my mother and it’s still haunts me and my siblings. We are now all over the age of fifty.
If you don’t want to be together, split your shit and go your separate ways.
It’s just sickening! If you all are trying to get a reality show, this is not the way!
6:38, how little you know. David Archie wanted to marry her, she’s considerably younger than him. She lost her parents early, I think in an accident and rec’d some recovery that made Archie want to marry her. Even if she crazy, its what he wanted. She’s the one with the house he wants, even if he claims a vacant house elsewhere for “residency” to run for office. When they got engaged in 2005 or so, he found his ticket. If she’s nuts, he certainly drove her there.
Jackson/Hinds “leadership” at its best. No wonder the place is a disaster. Merge the two and let the state administer services.
Oh yeah- perfect: go to counseling with an abuser. The court orders it.
What an idiot. Judges are just lawyers- and it shows.
well..he can move back to the house in his district!
6:38 AM
No not really. I hear enough from my therapist wife about batshit couples (both are crazy) that feed off each other. More than likely they're both crazy and probably deserve each other.
Personal opine...ince a thug alwa y s a thug.
How has Robert Graham avoided jail beats me
As my Training Officer pointed out to me 40 years ago, water seeks its own level.
Must be nice to get arrested not once but twice
And released without ever posting bond
David Archie is a loudmouth who craves attention and has no shame. This will serve him well as a Hinds County politician but it must be hell to live in the same house with him. Just sayin'
" David Archie is a loudmouth who craves attention and has no shame "
Yep.
But like many elected officials within the "City of Jackson" and "Hinds County" the voters there tend to vote for such people.
I do not understand their logic.
@8:22 - Did you say 'logic'? Who ever accused a Jackson or Hinds voter of using logic?
February 14, 2021 at 8:22 PM;
it's easy, they aren't using logic.
But what if he did not fo it?
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