According to The Washington Post, Colorado District Judge Natalie T. Chase reportedly showed her racist a** when she told her colleagues that “all lives matter” regarding the George Floyd case while repeatedly using the n-word while speaking to Black colleagues.
Chase has now resigned from the judicial position after the Colorado Supreme Court reprimanded her “undermined confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary by expressing [her] views about criminal justice, police brutality, race, and racial bias, specifically while wearing [her] robe in court staff work areas and from the bench.”
Throughout her time as a magistrate, complaints regarding Chase’s racist ways were abundant.
Last year, while on a trip to a conference in Pueblo, Colorado, Chase asked her colleague, “Why Black people can use the n-word but not White people?” The brazen bigot even asked the family court facilitator, a Black woman, to explain the difference between the n-word being said with an ‘er’ or an ‘a’. Chase continued using the racial slur throughout the interaction.
The shocked woman kept quiet about the offensive incident because she was reportedly afraid that Chase would retaliate against her if she came forward.
She said that the conversation made her feel “angry and hurt” and that every time she’d hear Chase utter the n-word was “like a stab through my heart each time.”
In another instance, Chase announced to coworkers that she would be “boycotting the Super Bowl because she objected to the NFL players who were kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against Black people.”
Another colleague also alleged that she often told too much of her personal information and misused her position by making staffers run her errands.
One employee said that after a meeting with another judge last year, Chase told her clerk that the judge was a “f*****g b***h.”
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Despite Chase apologizing and claiming she felt remorseful for her behavior, the judicial branch isn’t buying it.
Though the court reported that she didn’t directly use racial slurs towards any of her colleagues, there is still the matter that using the n-word “has a significant negative effect on the public’s confidence in integrity of and respect for the judiciary.”
It also added that Chase didn’t “act in a dignified and courteous manner” and that she violated a rule that “prohibits a judge from manifesting bias or prejudice based on race or ethnicity by word or action.”
Chase is officially resigning next month. Good riddance.
