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We don't need marble stairs, but treating people like animals is not the answer either. You seem to gloss over those points of the article (which is to say, th

• will_brown 10y ago
  Half my post was dedicated to one of the issue of treatment the Federal Judge took to issue, denying bail. The only reason I comment on that was because I wanted to expand upon it, because it may not necessarily be as egregious as the Judge thinks, but we don't know bc the facts of that case were omitted. Obviously I don't need to sound off as an echo chamber, racism/off color remarks have no place in the court. That said I also went to law school and read SCOTUS opinions openly referring to African-Americans in ways that would make any decent person shudder. In my own experience, practicing in South Florida, I see similar comments regularly in the Court. Then again in my time I have also filed Motions for Fraud against prosecutors and lodged formal complaints against prisons guards (one example, an immigration detention center guard called my client a "bitch" in front of me and my client suffered from a chromosome issue that mad him look like a women). There are some other things that might sound bad to lay persons, and maybe were, but are quite normal and not necessarily egregious or inhuman. For example, a judge engaging in small talk with prosecutors/PDs or bailiffs is not unusual or necessarily a bad thing either.