A social-media posting by a Brooklyn-based Court Officer Sergeant depicting former President Obama with a noose tied around his neck. A white court officer telling one of a group of black teenagers in a crowded elevator “to keep running your mouth. You’ll always be a [N-word].” Another white officer referring to a black colleague as “one of the good monkeys.”
According to an independent review of the state court system’s response to issues of institutional racism begun four months ago, those and a flurry of other incidents and behavior reflect an insidious and mostly unchecked pattern of racism within the judicial system.
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