White Judge Disgustingly Birates Black Woman in Wheelchair, Woman Later Dies

A South Florida judge resigned on Friday after being recorded berating a woman in a wheelchair who was having trouble breathing due to multiple medical conditions, and died just three days later.

Broward County Circuit Court Judge Merrilee Ehrlich gave defendant Sandra Faye Twiggs, 59, who was in her court facing misdemeanor charges following a family dispute, a verbal beat-down in a video dated April 15.

Ehrlich's tongue-lashing of Twiggs was so extreme that her public defender, Howard Finkelstein, demanded the judge be banned from presiding over criminal proceedings.

'It is not appropriate for anyone to endure that kind of treatment,' Finkelstein's chief assistant, Gordon Weekes, told the Miami Herald.

Below is the video, and I must warn you that the video is disturbing and just overall disgusting. So watch at your own discretion.

 

In the video, she can be heard attempting to broach the issue of her medical condition with Judge Ehrlich, who shouts her down, saying, 'I'm not here to talk about your breathing treatments.' 

  

A family friend of Twiggs said that Twiggs, who suffered from both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), had difficulty getting her medications while in custody after being arrested for a domestic violence issue in Lauderhill on April 13.

Upon returning home after the hearing, Carolyn Porter described Twiggs as starving, dizzy and borderline breathless. 

'She came home so devastated she couldn't catch her breath,' Porter said. 

At this point all we can do is send our condolences to Sandra Twiggs family. She did not deserve to be treated like an animal, and I hope an investigation is opened about her denial of her medications by the jail. This so called "Judge" is a very poor excuse for a human being and what goes around comes around. All of us always pay for our actions rather it's now or later. If there's any new developments ill be sure to update everyone.

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