Judge Saffold, probably saying something racist.

  • Judge Saffold, probably saying something racist.

The continuing saga of Judge Shirley Saffold, a.k.a. “lawmiss,” and the comments left by that account on Cleveland.com took another turn recently. After subpoenaing the judge’s computer, the Plain Dealer investigated other sites visited by Saffold and comments left under her alleged usernames on those sites.

The results don’t look good for Saffold, who is looking less like a respected judge and more like a common internet commentariot idiot by the day.

Some choice examples:

Lawmiss called Asians “flat face morons” when remarking on a story about the Chinese volleyball team.

And a story about a racist remark against the president prompted lawmiss to rail against whites: “how can white men be christan’s, it’s impossible. Their nature is to be nasty, convining, and decietful. They lie, they cheat, and they steal. And, they do it in a suit.”

Lawmiss on AOL also insults people based on religion.

After France proposed banning burqas, lawmiss wrote “yeah, they ought to ban them, and if the muslims don’t like it, then go home. you can’t see their faces, you can’t tell if they’re men or women and they’re criminals. if they want to wear that crap, then they ought to stay in saudi arabia, where it’s acceptable and they have no intention of blowing anyone up.”

An article about Ellen DeGeneres prompted Lawmiss to attack gays.

“She’s s dyke, and that’s all she’s competent at. She’s no dancer. Nest think you’ll know the gays will take over.”

Stay classy, Judge Saffold.

The whole commenting debacle lends itself to two important discussions regarding Saffold, and that doesn’t even count the debate on whether the Plain Dealer should have unmasked Saffold as the commenter ‘lawmiss.’

This article appears in May 5-11, 2010.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

3 replies on “Judge Shirley Saffold Allegedly Left Racist Comments at AOL, Other Sites”

  1. I did a search for Judge Shirley Saffold and got this from 1996:
    “Associated Press

    CLEVELAND — A Cuyahoga County judge urged a female defendant to find and marry a doctor and even gave her tips on how to find one.

    At the sentencing this week of Katie Nemeth, 19, for a misdemeanor, Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold told her to go to Case Western Reserve University and pick up a medical student.

    A transcript of the hearing shows that Judge Saffold, who is married to a doctor, told Ms. Nemeth to go to the library of Case Western’s medical school and pretend to read a textbook, the Plain Dealer …”
    and this:
    “

    Judge causes clamor with advice on men

    CLEVELAND A female judge gave Katie Nemeth some free advice before accepting her guilty plea: Dump your boyfriend, show your legs and find a doctor to marry.

    “Men are easy,” Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold told Nemeth. “You can go sit in the bus stop, put on a short skirt, cross your legs and pick up 25. Ten of them will give you their money.”

    She didn’t stop there. “If you don’t pick up the first 10,” the judge said, “then all you got to do is open your legs a little bit and cross them at the bottom, and then they’ll stop.”

    Two national organizations … “
    Maybe someone can unearth the original articles.

  3. This is not a judge that we need in our courts. I don’t know if she has been hurt in her life so she is taking it out on others, but we need to get her off the bench. As a judge you should have an unbiased opinion of the cases that are brought before you. This is someone that is using the system to avenge her own personal issues in her life.

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