A Hennepin County judge and vocal critic of a lack of weapons screening at three suburban courtrooms says he is refusing to hear cases at them until stronger security precautions are put into place.
"I'm tired of driving to Brookdale, the courtroom everyone who knows agrees is the most likely place for a shooting or violence to occur, and not know whether I will be carried out in a body bag that day," District Judge Lloyd Zimmerman wrote in an e-mail to his judicial colleagues Wednesday, citing the high number of domestic violence cases at that courtroom.
"I ask that you stand in solidarity with me. Do not go. Don't take my place."
I'm not ready to quit my job over this issue or otherwise raise a stink (I knew what I was getting into), but I have spent a lot of time working out my safety plan for the courtroom and - equally importantly - the hallways and parking lot.
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