The New York Court of Appeals has suspended an upstate town justice who brandished a gun at a defendant he had described as “a big Black man,” overstating that person’s size, seven years ago.

The high court’s suspension, with pay, banned Whitehall Town Justice Robert Putorti from town and village courts. It was handed down Oct. 21, a month after a state panel on judicial conduct called for Putorti’s removal.

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