Judge Who Threatened to Shoot Black Teens Should Be Removed, Panel Says
Judge Who Threatened to Shoot Black Teens Should Be Removed, Panel Says
Justice Erin P. Gall of upstate New York engaged in a “racially offensive, profane” diatribe after people crashed a large party she was attending, a disciplinary body found.
As the officers tried to clear the chaotic scene and the Black teenagers lingered while looking for the lost key, the commission said, Justice Gall, who is white, told them to “get off the property — and that’s from Judge Gall.” She added, with a vulgarity included for emphasis: “I’m a judge.”
Minutes later, she cited her judicial status again.
“You’re going to get in an Uber, buddy, or you’re going to get a cop escort home,” she said, adding: “That’s how I roll. That how Mrs. G rolls. That’s how Judge Gall rolls.” Over roughly an hour and a half, she invoked her office more than a dozen times, the commission said.
An officer suggested to her that if someone found the missing key, it should be returned to the police. Otherwise, the officer said, someone from the group that lost it would need to return to look for it further.
“If they come back looking for it, I’ll call you while they’re on the property,” Justice Gall said, adding: “If they did, they’ll be arrested, or they’ll be shot on the property. Because when they trespass, you can shoot them on the property. I’ll shoot them on the property.”
In another exchange, she said to the officers that the Black teenagers “don’t look like they’re that smart” and “were not going to business school, that’s for sure.”
This is a person trusted to make important decisions that affect the lives of many other people.
She sounds quite unhinged.
Over the course of the diatribe, the commission found, the judge alternated between criticizing the officers for not acting as she wanted and expressing her strong affinity for them. She said at one point, “I would take anyone down for you guys.”
“You know that,” she said. “I am on your side.”
Seems like an unbiased impartial judge to me....
Lol, business school is not for smart kids, it's babysitting for rich special needs kids.(The special is dark triad disorders)
As for this lady... I guess if she gets disrobed then she can join the local HOA.
We used to joke around that if you couldn't cut it in Engineering School, at least there's always Business School. Our professors even joked around about it, calling our 1st and 2nd year weed-out classes "Pre-Business" classes.
My business major college roommate was a CS program dropout.
BBA/MBA are seriously the most useless degrees out there. Everyone I’ve known with either was either a complete idiot or they did it online specifically for a job and learned nothing in the process.
Go find another job, Gall.
Why, she’s still getting paid.
She earns $232,600 a year and, the commission said, will be suspended with pay while the state’s Court of Appeals decides her fate.
If someone shows up uninvited on someone’s property and refuses to leave, I don’t see a threat of violence as entirely unreasonable. Especially after violence had already broken out. Go read the whole article, I bet nothing happens to this woman.
She’s an officer of the court, for one, she’s a judge on top of that, and she’s already been recommended to be removed by the panel that looked into it