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18. His wife compared his conviction to a lynching. She never left.
Wed Jun 30, 2021, 01:18 PM
Jun 2021
In her first major media interview in six years, Bill Cosby's wife Camille Cosby told ABC News that she is "very, very pleased" that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear part of her husband's appeal -- but insisted that the #MeToo movement needs to "clean up their act" and that she doesn't "care" about the feelings of scores of women who have accused her husband of drugging and sexually abusing them.

Also compared her husband to Emmett Till and the victims of the Tulsa massacre

Cosby also defended previous comparisons she has made between accusations against her husband and the lynching of Emmett Till, the 14-year old Mississippi child brutalized and murdered in 1955 for whistling at a white woman -- a false claim debunked years after the murder by the woman who made the claim in the first place.

She also drew comparisons of her husband's treatment to the massacre of hundreds of African Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921 -- widely considered by scholars to be one of the lowest points of in the nation's history of racial violence.

Cosby contended that the comparison is apt.


https://abcnews.go.com/US/camille-cosby-husbands-appeal-black-lives-matter-metoo/story?id=71414696
I'm disgusted nt XanaDUer2 Jun 2021 #1
+1 nitpicker Jun 2021 #3
WTF? wryter2000 Jun 2021 #2
An agreement with a previous prosecutor that he wouldn't be charged is the reason. Drunken Irishman Jun 2021 #4
Why was this not raised during the original trial that he had an agreement with the madinmaryland Jun 2021 #19
It was raised. The trial judge Tomconroy Jun 2021 #21
It was Effete Snob Jun 2021 #27
Technicality in strategy. DAMN! lindysalsagal Jun 2021 #5
Wait... this says the PSC says Takket Jun 2021 #33
If The Reporting Is Accurate... ProfessorGAC Jun 2021 #6
I am wondering what the hell that previous prosecutor was trying to accomplish. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #16
It allowed Constand to proceed with her civil claim against Cosby Effete Snob Jun 2021 #23
Thanks - that actually makes sense. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #30
So, you would have decided the victim shouldn't get a civil judgment? Effete Snob Jun 2021 #26
I'd Need To See More Legal Opinions ProfessorGAC Jun 2021 #36
I don't understand your response Effete Snob Jun 2021 #38
Yes You Do ProfessorGAC Jun 2021 #40
Who did he bribe? greatauntoftriplets Jun 2021 #7
The prosecutor badly fouled up Sympthsical Jun 2021 #8
Typical incompetent Republican. Drunken Irishman Jun 2021 #9
This is everyone's shocked face n/t Sympthsical Jun 2021 #11
He not only got the time NJCher Jun 2021 #13
His wife compared his conviction to a lynching. She never left. NYC Liberal Jun 2021 #18
Nobody. Sounds like a previous prosecutor made a massive, massive mistake. bearsfootball516 Jun 2021 #10
A prosecutor who went on to become Trump's defense lawyer StarfishSaver Jun 2021 #12
The agreement was made Tomconroy Jun 2021 #22
Depends on your point of view fescuerescue Jun 2021 #28
well now that you look at it that way NJCher Jun 2021 #31
This is really the question of the day, isn't it? Dr. Strange Jun 2021 #35
Why? He had a case he could not win. former9thward Jun 2021 #37
Is it a tRump judge who made the ruling? MiniMe Jun 2021 #14
This was the PA Supreme Court Effete Snob Jun 2021 #24
There are surely other cases to move forward now though Johnny2X2X Jun 2021 #15
Another rapist walks... LizBeth Jun 2021 #17
This sucks. But at least he did some time, and the whole world knows he's guilty fishwax Jun 2021 #20
Massive screw-up. Ms. Toad Jun 2021 #25
Cosby already proclaiming it justice for black America n/m BradAllison Jun 2021 #29
Justice served $$$$$$$$$$ finally RANDYWILDMAN Jun 2021 #32
Great to be rich, isn't it? Takket Jun 2021 #34
Of course, once again, a Repuke is at the center of a perversion of justice. clementine613 Jun 2021 #39
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