A state Superior Court judge is receiving some backlash after posting several TikTok videos of him lip syncing songs containing “profanity, graphic sexual references, and racist terms.”
Between April 2021 and March of this year, Wilcox reportedly posted 40 videos to his burner TikTok account under the alias “Sal Tortorella,” according to the complaint, filed Monday. The complaint takes issue with 11 videos it says were inappropriate, either because of their content “with references to “violence, sex, and misogyny,” because of Wilcox’s appearance “wearing his judicial robes or partially dressed while in bed or because of his location in his chambers, or in the courthouse.”
It describes one video in Wilcox’s chambers, in which he’s wearing a T-shirt and lip-syncing to “Jump” by Rhianna: “If you want it let’s do it. Ride it, my pony. My saddle is waitin’, come and jump on it. If you want it, let’s do it.”
He also posted a TikTok video wearing a “Beavis and Butt-Head” T-shirt while walking through the Bergen County courthouse with Get Down by Nas playing, according to a formal complaint lodged by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct.
“The song contains explicit lyrics concerning a criminal case and a courtroom shooting as well as derogatory and discriminatory terms, drug and gang references, and the killing of a doctor in a hospital who treated another gang member,” the complaint says.
In another video he captioned the TikTok, “When an ex-girlfriend calls you “Santa” because of your new white beard,” visible and Busta Rhymes’ Touch It playing in the background, the complaint states the following lyrics were audible during the video: “For the record, just a second, I’m freakin’ it out. While she tryin’ to touch, see, I was peepin’ it out. She turned around and was tryin’ to put my d**k in her mouth. I let her.”
Wearing a suit and holding cash in his chambers, Wilcox “pretends to light a match while lip-syncing the following lyrics from Sure Thing by Miguel: “ If you be the cash, I’ll be the rubber band. You be the match, I will be a fuse, boom. Painter, baby, you could be the muse. I’m the reporter, baby, you could be the news. ‘Cause you’re the cigarette, and I’m the smoker. We raise a bet, ’cause you’re the joker.”
“By his conduct in posting these and similar videos to TikTok, (Wilcox) exhibited poor judgment and demonstrated disrespect for the Judiciary and an inability to conform to the high standards of conduct expected of judges,” the complaint stated.