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A Minnesota Black Lives Matter protester has been charged with trying to intimidate the judge overseeing Daunte Wrights manslaughter case after he posted live video outside her apartment door.

Cortez Rice who previously posed as a nephew of George Floyd was among a group shouting for justice a month ago outside a Loring Park high-rise condo where they believed Judge Regina Chu lived.

He admitted in an interview last month that he then got inside the building and filmed himself inside the hallways and at the front door of the apartment that he believed belonged to the judge.

Tight on her ass, we on her heels. Wont she think it sweet, he said in a since-deleted livestream video that was cited in his criminal complaint, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

We want cameras in the courtroom the people deserve to know whats going on, he continued, referring to the trial of Kimberly Potter, the ex-cop who claimed she thought she was using her Taser when she fatally shot Wright, 20, in April.

I dont know if this is her crib. I think this is her crib right here. We got confirmation that this is her house right here, he said in the video, according to the criminal complaint.

He said he was waiting for the gang to get up here.

Other footage appears to show him back outside bragging that hed been inside the building, saying, I was at that bitch door.

It was not immediately clear if he was at the right apartment, the local paper noted. A man who lived there claimed hed bought it from Chu, who had moved, but the judge said in court that the protest was staged at the presiding judges home, the Star Tribune said.

Either way, Chu told cops that she believed Rice was trying to intimidate her and to interfere with the judicial process, the complaint read.

Rice, 32, was charged last week with tampering with a judicial officer, a felony. The criminal complaint was unsealed late Friday afternoon, four days after he was booked into jail in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.

He was transferred to jail in Hennepin County, Minnesota, where he was being held Monday night on $50,000 bail, records show.

Before his arrest, Rice had admitted to the Star Tribune last month that he had been outside the judges door.

I just made a live video on it and I was just there to make sure she can hear us, he said at the time, insisting he was not there to intimidate her.

Chu later allowed cameras in the Potter trial but insisted in her ruling that the protest did not have any impact on the Courts decision, nor should it.

Rice previously wore Black Lives Matter garb as he gave tearful interviews to media claiming to be a heartbroken relative of George Floyd, whose murder by a Minneapolis cop in May 2020 sparked international protests.

However, Floyds real family later sent him a cease-and-desist letter to stop him making the claims, the Minnesota Sun noted. Rice then claimed he only meant that Floyd was like an uncle because blood dont make you family, the paper said.

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