CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended that a judge serving on the Canandaigua Town Court should be removed from office for what it calls racially insensitive conduct.
According to court documents, Walter Jones used the “n-word,” repeatedly while telling a story to coworkers in 2024. The documents said Jones was telling a story about a black man who became friends with his grandfather while working on cotton fields in Texas during the Great Depression.
During a hearing, the commission said Jones denied that he used the word himself, and that he was “quoting his father.”…