Pittsburgh attorney Milton Raiford was hit with a public reprimand by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Review Board for refusing to continue representing a criminal defendant after telling an Allegheny County trial judge that the courthouse was “a cesspool for white privilege” and that the court lacked empathy for minorities and the poor.

According to the board’s order and recommendation, Raiford represented Vanessa Williams, who was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly vehicle. Raiford told Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Judge Anthony Mariani that he would not represent Williams until Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. “‘meets with me or he recuses himself from all of my cases,’” the board said.

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