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Georgia judge, Jim Hinkle, suspended for comparing protesters who pulled down Confederate statues to ISIS

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"ra-headers">&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>Gwinnett County Magistrate Court Judge James A&period; Hinkle was suspended after he slammed protesters who pulled down Confederate monuments<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;">In social media posts comparing protesters to ISIS<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>In his controversial Facebook postings James Hinkle slammed protesters who pulled down Confederate monuments <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It looks like all of the snowflakes have no concept of history&period; It is what it is&period; Get over it and move on&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>Hinkle&comma; a long time politician was the former mayor of Grayson for more than two decades likened the protesters to the Islamic terror state ISIS<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>He has a history of inflammatory&comma; supremacist views&comma; including a declaration in January&comma; that he was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;proud to be a deplora<&sol;strong>ble infidel”<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-236412" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;gwinnett-county-magistrate-court-judge-james-a-hinkle-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Gwinnett County Magistrate Court Judge James A&period; Hinkle 1&period;png" width&equals;"649" height&equals;"833" &sol;>Gwinnett County Magistrate Court Judge James A&period; Hinkle has been suspended after he likened anti-fascist protestors to Islamic terror state ISIS<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"text">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p">A judge in Gwinnett County&comma; Georgia has been suspended after making known his Neo-Nazi and White supremacist sympathies&period; Longtime local politician and magistrate judge&comma; James Hinkle&comma;  who served as mayor of the city of Grayson for more than two decades before retiring in 2013&comma; took to Facebook on Saturday to castigate the anti-fascist protesters&comma; who were attacked and injured&comma; some fatally&comma; while protesting over Confederate memorials in Charlottesville&comma; Virginia&comma; and elsewhere&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"text">Hinkle wrote a post on Saturday deriding the counter-protesters in Charlottesville&comma; Va&period;&comma; who opposed white supremacists&comma; neo-Nazis and other far-right groups protesting the removal of Robert E&period; Lee’s statue&comma; the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ajc&period;com&sol;news&sol;local-govt--politics&sol;gwinnett-judge-suspended-after-posts-about-confederate-monuments&sol;0BhU3WXwawztILcn95ipqJ&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Atlanta Journal Constitution<&sol;a> reported&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In his controversial Facebook postings James Hinkle slammed protesters who pulled down Confederate monuments and likened them to ISIS&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-234351" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;people-fly-into-the-air-as-a-vehicle-drives-into-a-group-of-protesters-demonstrating-against-a-white-nationalist-rally-in-charlottesville-va-saturday-aug-121&period;jpg" alt&equals;"People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville&comma; Va&period;&comma; Saturday&comma; Aug&period; 12&comma;" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"810" &sol;><strong>The moment neo-Nazi James Fields sent dozens of anti-fascist protesters flying through the air &comma; driving his car at speed into the group&comma; Saturday<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-236471" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;judge-james-hinkle-facebook-posting1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Judge James Hinkle Facebook posting1&period;jpg" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"626" &sol;><strong> Jim Hinkle posted&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It looks like all of the snowflakes have no concept of history&period; It is what it is&period; Get over it and move on”<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>About an hour before James Field allegedly rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters&comma; Hinkle wrote&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It looks like all of the snowflakes have no concept of history&period; It is what it is&period; Get over it and move on&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;he followed that message with another post&comma; this one comparing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the nut cases tearing down monuments” to the so-called Islamic State&period; On Tuesday&comma; Hinkle added&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The nut cases tearing down monuments are equivalent to ISIS destroying history&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;A few hours after that post — which was not the first on Hinkle’s Facebook page that could be considered inflammatory&comma; Gwinnett County Chief Magistrate Judge Kristina Hammer Blum told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that she had suspended Hinkle&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Chief Magistrate Judge Kristina Hammer Blum issued a statement that read&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;After reviewing the Facebook posts brought to my attention this morning&comma; I suspended Judge Hinkle effective immediately while I consider the appropriate final action&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-236408" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;deandre-harris-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Deandre Harris 1" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"832" &sol;>20-year-old aspiring rapper Deandre Harris is injured after clashing with protesters in Charlottesville&comma; Va&period;&comma; on Saturday<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-gallery">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-gallery-wrapper">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-236406" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;white-supremacists-beating-deandre-harris-in-charlottesville-on-saturday&period;jpg" alt&equals;"White supremacists beating Deandre Harris in Charlottesville on Saturday&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"827" &sol;><strong>Deandre Harris &lbrack; on the ground in photo&rsqb; <&sol;strong>was left with blood pouring down his face from a head wound and a gash over his left eye after the racist gang began kicking and beating him with flag poles while hurling racial invective<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>This isn’t the first time Hinkle&comma; the former mayor of Grayson for more than two decades&comma; has shared his controversial views on social media&period; In January&comma; he declared that he was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;proud to be a deplorable infidel”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When the U&period;S&period; Treasury announced Harriet Tubman would be replacing Andrew Jackson on the &dollar;20bill&comma; he wrote&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Well&comma; the U&period;S&period; Treasury has just announced the ugliest &dollar;20 bill&comma; or any money ever&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;While critics have been calling for Hinkle to resign&comma; he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he didn’t see what was so controversial at his Facebook posts&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But you know&comma; with the way things are going in the world today&comma; I guess everything’s controversial&comma;” he said<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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