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submitted 3 months ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

A suburban Detroit judge is no longer handling cases after a court official turned over recordings of her making anti-gay insults and referring to Black people as lazy.

Oakland County Probate Judge Kathleen Ryan was removed from her docket on Aug. 27 for unspecified misconduct. Now the court’s administrator has stepped forward to say he blew the whistle on her, secretly recording their phone calls.

“I just want to make it right. ... I want to keep my job and do it in peace,” Edward Hutton told WXYZ-TV. “And I want the people in Oakland County that come to court to get a fair shake, to have their day in court, to have an unbiased trier of fact.”

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[-] TheEtherBunny@lemmy.world 73 points 3 months ago

Respect to Hutton for stepping forward and pushing back against bigotry.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 65 points 3 months ago

Lower courts held to a higher standard than the Supreme Court. How fun for us.

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 51 points 3 months ago

Now let’s wipe all her gay and black convictions.

[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] ravhall@discuss.online 11 points 3 months ago

And lawsuit time if they are found innocent.

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

As a probate judge would she have convictions?

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Probate Division manages decedents' estates, trusts, guardianship of minors, and conservatorship of adults who are unable to provide for their personal needs or manage their financial resources.

Doesn't look like it, but Brittany Spears can tell you about the other horrors this bigot would have been able to serve up as "punishments."

All her assets neet to be seized and audited. I guarantee this piece of shit has stolen from mentally challenged kids and adults.

[-] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 29 points 3 months ago

I want to keep my job and do it in peace

Good luck. Doing the right thing often does not have that result.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Not in this country, under our Corporate overlords.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

“I’m not systemically racist. I’m a new racist,” said Ryan

Still getting paid too. Be a racist officer (of the court), get caught - Free Vacation! Jägerbombs all ‘round!

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

Jesus. I thought you were exaggerating with that quote. Nope. She just out and out admits she is a piece of shit.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I didn't believe either of you so I went and checked for myself.

“I’m not systemically racist. I’m a new racist,” said Ryan, who was first elected in 2010.

Holy fuck, she fucking said it.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago

Oh, cool, that "new racism" I've been hearing about, that's awesome.

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 months ago

I'd like to see everyone have reasonable consequences applied to their actions, thank you.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 9 points 3 months ago

Tbf, our prisons aren't by any stretch of the imagination "reasonable."

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Because of course she's in Probate

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

This is APPALLING! If we allow this to Stand then Maybe in a couple Decades we won't even allow Judges to take MULTI MILLION DOLLAR BRIBES FROM THE PEOPLE BRINGING CASES BEFORE THEM! Sickening!

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

"Oakland County Probate Judge Kathleen Ryan"

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

That's hard to hold personal biases after seeing all kinds of people doing shitty things. It's natural for us to form them as we optinize our workflow, right, but toward such general groups like The Blacks (c) and The Gays (tm)? She inherited them and consciously kept them in her. I don't know how it affected her judgement in court, but at the very least saying stuff like that doesn't sit right with her job, even if it's said in person. It's like a surgeon telling an anecdote of them not washing hands after using a toilet.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

lol she would be a Kathy, feel like that’s up there with Karen

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