New York Judge's Letitia James Comment Sparks Backlash

Federal Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis reportedly said the recent heckling of Letitia James at an FDNY event 'had to do with race.'

Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis is facing backlash for suggesting that New York firefighters heckled state Attorney General Letitia James based on 'race.'Garaufis, a United States District Judge in the Eastern District of New York, ordered the FDNY commissioner and the city's top lawyer last month to appear before him to explain the fire department's inability to answer equal opportunity complaints.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Valentina Gomez, a Republican Secretary of State candidate from Missouri, wrote:'These heroes that run into burning buildings, and save lives, are being suppressed by a tyrant government in New York City. When I'm Secretary of State in Missouri, I will happily higher these brave heroes. Freedom of speech will never be suppressed.

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