A Georgia judge, who was suspended for making online comments that called critics of Confederate monuments in the South “snowflakes” and “nut cases,” has resigned.
Judge Jim Hinkle was suspended Tuesday from his post in Gwinnett County Magistrate Court. Judge Kristina Hammer Blum, the metro Atlanta court’s chief judge, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Hinkle would remain off the bench “while I consider the appropriate final action.” Instead, Hinkle gave his resignation Wednesday, according to local reports.
Violence last weekend during a Virginia rally by white supremacists opposing the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has stoked calls to topple Confederate statues and monuments in other parts of the South.
A Marine Corps veteran and former mayor of the city of Grayson, Hinkle wrote about the controversy on his Facebook page Saturday.
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