{"id":282463,"date":"2026-05-07T06:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282463\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:33:11","slug":"north-texas-judge-under-investigation-after-whataburger-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282463\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas judge under investigation after Whataburger brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Young County justice of the peace is under investigation after a late-night fight with a teenage boy outside a Whataburger in North Texas, according to news reports.<\/p>\n

The fight happened about 1 a.m. Sunday at a Whataburger in Graham, about 90 miles west of Fort Worth, according to KFDX\/KJTL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 Jason Hearne and a group of teens began arguing inside the restaurant after the teens had posed for\u00a0photos with social media influencer Danny Duncan, a YouTuber with more than 8 million subscribers,\u00a0who was at the restaurant with a film crew.<\/p>\n

The witness said\u00a0Hearne made a homophobic remark to one of the teens about\u00a0taking a photo with another man.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe started talking about, if it\u2019s cool to take pictures with another dude, basically calling us gay and stuff,\u201d one of the teens told KFDX\/KJTL.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When their argument spilled into the parking lot, that\u2019s when witnesses said\u00a0Hearne threw the first punch and their brawl began.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Videos of the fight have reportedly circulated online, including one video showing\u00a0Hearne walking toward one of the teens. The teen can be seen with his fists raised saying \u201ccome on big boy,\u201d and \u201cI don\u2019t care who you are\u201d using foul language.<\/p>\n

Terri Rhodes, a district judge coordinator, told\u00a0KFDX\/KJTL on behalf of District Judge Phillip Gregory that Gregory was aware of the circumstances and believed the matter was under active investigation.<\/p>\n

Young County\u2019s website lists Hearne as the Precinct 1 justice of the peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Young County justice of the peace is under investigation after a late-night fight with a teenage boy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,93799],"class_list":["post-282463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-time-sensitive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}