Brooklyn Judge Accused of Making Racist and Homophobic Remarks Resigns

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Brooklyn Judge Accused of Making Racist and Homophobic Remarks Resigns
Misconduct claims against Judge Harriet Thompson of Brooklyn Surrogate’s Court were scheduled to be considered at a hearing next week.




A Brooklyn judge accused of making racist and homophobic remarks about court workers, fellow judges and others has agreed to give up her seat on the bench, officials said on Monday.

The judge, Harriet L. Thompson of Brooklyn Surrogate’s Court, was set to face a misconduct hearing next week. In a legal filing, a top New York judge wrote that Judge Thompson said that “being gay is an abomination to mankind” and that Hispanic people had a “deceitful trait that goes way back to biblical times.”

Those comments and others, most of which Judge Thompson, 67, denied making but which an inspector general’s inquiry substantiated, helped form the basis of a formal complaint filed against her last year with the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.



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The ensuing report, in December 2021, detailed a litany of hateful remarks against Hispanic people, white people, gay people, people of West Indian descent and others, including those whose appearance or other personal characteristics she found offensive.

“She got what she deserved,” Judge Thompson said of one member of the judiciary whose diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease had become public, the inspector general’s report found. “She smelled and had body odor,” Judge Thompson said of another, the report said.

Her comments about gay men were particularly harsh and regularly flecked with a common slur, the inspector general found. “I hate these gay white men,” the inspector general found that she had stated bluntly in one instance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/nyregion/judge-thompson-resigns-brooklyn-surrogates-court.html

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1. There's no place on our courts' benches for that

[chowder66]

5. +1

[brooklynite]

2. The Kings County Democratic Party (which nominates Judicial candidates) strikes again...

[TheProle]

3. Good riddance to a piece of shit

What a disgusting litany of hate.

[Zeitghost]

4. Sounds like a good outcome

For a bad judge.

It's been awhile since I've cracked open a Bible, but I fail to remember a lot of stories involving deceitful Hispanics.

[H2O Man]

6. Recommended.

The NYS Commission on Judical Conduct is outstanding. It is, of course, nonpartisan, and even-handed. Over the past three decades, I have gone to them to remove two Justices of the Peace, and am aware of two others in this area they got rid of.

[Ocelot II]

7. Jeez, what an awful person! She shouldn't have been allowed

to stay on the bench as long as she did.

[progressoid]

8. Buh bye.