Posted on 02/10/2009 8:28:38 AM PST by stan_sipple
A Connecticut Superior Court judge charged with drunken driving and using racial slurs while arguing with police officers was suspended Monday for 240 days by a judicial review panel. Judge E. Curtissa Cofield, who was confirmed as Connecticut's first black female judge in 1991, had apologized to the state Judicial Review Council earlier in the day, calling the night of her arrest "one of the worst experiences of my life." Cofield was arrested the night of Oct. 9 after her car hit a parked state police cruiser in a construction zone on Route 2 in Glastonbury, Conn. Police say she told them she hadn't had any alcohol, but she failed a sobriety test. Urine tests later that night showed she had a blood-alcohol level of twice the legal limit of 0.08. She also argued with state and Glastonbury police officers. A surveillance camera at the Glastonbury police department captured the exchanges on video, which shows her using the N-word, calling a black state trooper "Negro," threatening that trooper's job, referring to a female officer as "little girl" and "Barbie" and using other offensive language. "When I watched the video, I did not recognize myself," Cofield told the council. "The woman I observed that night is not the woman I am."Judge Susan S. Reynolds appeared to stump Cofield when she asked why Cofield's comments were not racist. "Why is it not racism .... hmmm. I think for crimes like bias you have to have intent," Cofield said. "All I can say is I was really intoxicated. ... I can't explain it. Why is it not racism ... I don't know. But if it is or someone perceives that it is, I apologize for that."
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She needs to be counselled by Jesse Jackson.
Affirmative action judge.
Toast.
Fake hair, fake nails, fake apology
If she gets impeached she can run for the House like Alcee Hastings who is behind the bill for out political camps.
heard about this case on the Howie Carr show awhile back;
emailed him with the latest update!
It’s so very much like ‘I didn’t know I owed $80B in back taxes.’ Are not We the Little People judged by our actions, regardless of whether or not we are intoxicated? Regardless of whether we ‘forgot’ to pay our taxes?
Otherwise every alcoholic could wreak havoc on society and be innocent. And every scofflaw could say “I forgot” and be found not guilty.
No ‘regular citizen’ could use this excuse and not suffer consequences.
Some animals are better than others. She must be a Dem.
A travesty.
She should be off the bench entirely.
No kidding! She’s got those gansta brows goin’ on.
By definition, this did not happen.
To top it off they use the word Negro as an example of a racial slur. When did that become a "racial" slur?
Just more political correctness coming out. It is more damaging to argue with cops than to drive drunk. What a crock of sh**!
ok now draw the moustache...
That's a sure sign of the trouble we're entering.
Speaking carries more penalty than action.
I’m having a little trouble getting sympathetic about “one of the worst experiences of her life”. She was driving drunk and if she hadn’t been stopped, she might well have ended someone else’s life that night. ONE DUI should disqualify someone from serving as a judge.
“Also, she is black, so how can she have made racial slurs to a black cop?”
Perhaps he was blacker.
To top it off they use the word Negro as an example of a racial slur. When did that become a “racial” slur?
Where have you been. It’s been a racial slur for the last 30 years at least.
Why have we become so politically correct, that we must now categorize a slang derivative of the word "Negro", so reprehensible, that we can only say it as the: "N-word"? I am not attempting to deny the reprehensibility of the "N-word", used as a pejorative by white robed idiots and uneducated white trash and by the hip-hop dimwits in describing themselves in their artistry of rap...but.
I have noted, that even in court room testimony, it is frequently accepted by the judge, as "the N-word", going into official transcripts as such.
Soon, the "N-word" will be adapted by racists in common use as much as the "N-word" is now, and the "N-word" will be replaced by...what?
Agh!...my head is spinning...see what this damn PC stuff does to a person?
Will we see a white robed fool standing on a street corner, exhorting the racist mass to lynch an "N-word"?
Will we see movies, that in attempting to portray the downtrodden masses, cast a southern accented idiot, standing on the portico of his mansion, surveying his cotton fields, making the statement: "Git them n-words in the field and make them pick that cotton!"?
Where will it end?
Will it then become the n-word "N-word"?
What shall we do with the "S-word"?
Or the "F-word", for that matter?
As it stands now, I can be politically correct whilst standing in public and shouting "F-word", "S-word", and "N-word", right?
I guess it becomes wrong when we say (shout): n-word!, f-word!, s-word! and G**Damn! and p-word and c-word.
These attempts to not offend anyone have become tiresome and they offend me.
I apologize if anyone is offended.
And note...that was the "new" apology...wherein one apologizes for the feeling of offense that one may feel, not the offense itself.
Seems to be a liberal thing, you know?
lol she wasn't stopped. She slammed into a patrolman's car. I guess you could say she stopped herself, practically turned herself in, in fact.
Toast.
LOL - yep, that ought to do it. The rest is window dressing.
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