Alabama judge suspended after mocking Asian accent

An Alabama judge was suspended after a complaint Last month he accused him of racial discrimination, among other inappropriate behavior.

The Judicial Inquiry has accused Judge James T. Patterson of mocking the tone of an Asian juror in the courtroom, and of looking down on Gov. Cat Ivey.

It was stopped last month but the complaint, which was filed on June 15, was announced on Wednesday, Per NBC News. The complaint contained numerous accounts of Patterson’s inappropriate behavior, including foul language, inappropriate comments, and swearing.

According to the complaint, Patterson referred to Governor Kay Ivey as “Governor Mimau” on multiple occasions in front of attorneys and court staff. Patterson also referred to the Alabama prison system as the “Governor Memow Prison System”.

In another case, Patterson also made sexually inappropriate comments in his own courtroom, according to the complaint. As he told one of the defendants during a probation invalidation hearing, “You don’t want to be friends with someone when you’re going down the road,” a joke referring to sexual assault in prison. The assistant prosecutor who was present felt that the comment was insulting to the defendant.

In August 2019, Patterson inappropriately addressed a group of jurors that included Asian Americans. Patterson asked the jury if they spoke “Ingrich” while imitating a stereotypical offensive Asian accent. A day later, he took up the topic on his Facebook page.

“Liberals call everyone who disagrees with them a racist nowadays,” Patterson wrote on his Facebook page, according to the complaint. “I’m nothing like that.”

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