c/politics · by GrenadineBombardier@lemmy.ml · 3y

No discipline for Texas judge who used racial slur to describe Latino defendants

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/no-censure-texas-judge-used-racial-slur-defendants-18187290.php

Texas judicial commission says remark by Judge Allen Amos was "not necessarily appropriate" but also not punishable.

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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 41 pts · 3y (2 replies)

The judge and the defense attorney had run into each other one day in court and were having a casual conversation during which Amos told Miller that the defendants coming through his court were not “your regular wetbacks,” according to the complaint.

I fail to see how a judge who refers to the people in his courtroom via slurs can be impartial in his decisions.

Xepher@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 3y

This was in Texas. I'm sure the Judge doesn't even think of that as a problem there.

Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y

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themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y (1 reply)

All this tells us is that the Texas Judicial Commission is also racist as fuck.

pozbo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

I didn't even need to pay for access to this article to know that

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

Welp it looks like it's up to the citizenry to handle it away from cameras then

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 3y