Former federal prosecutor Brett Tolman reacted to the vice president's remarks following the announcement of the Rittenhouse verdict.
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Simparica trio,
the verdict really speaks for
itself.
As many of you know, I have spent
a majority of my career working
to make the criminal justice
system more equitiable of and
clearly there is a lot more work
to do.
Will Vice President Kamala
mayors, slamming the verdict of
Kyle Rittenhouse touting her own
record as criminal prosecutor in
the justice system
as San Francisco D Dot A she
failed to embrace criminal
justice reforms
here is break it down. Former
federal prosecutor, Brett Tolman
Great, to see you this morning.
I want to be clear about the
conversation you and I are about
to have
not whether or not there should
be criminal justice reform, but
whether or not Kamala Harris has
been the person she describes
herself, as somebody fighting
for equity in the criminal
justice system.
Is that what her track record
her history suggests?
Well, the nerve of somebody
like the vice president coming
forward and suggesting that she
has been. You know someone that
worked on equity within the
criminal just tis system.
This is akin to Tonya Harding
telling us. She worked her entire
career to help ice skating be
fair.
The reality is the violations
she committed as a prosecutor
are some of the most important
and the I think the individual
decisions that she made
prosecutors cringe to see her
touting her record in criminal
justice reform
will lets. Take a look at a few
of those
here are some of the positions
she took. While a prosecutor in
California,
she opposed legalization of
marijuana
opposed sex. Decriminalization
fought to uphold wrongful
convictions,
took a firm stance. Reducing
minor felonies
Brett here is why I talked
about the conversation
im not saying she shouldnt be
on the other side of policies.
You cant turn around youre
some equity fighter, some social
justice prosecutor,
Brett correct me. If im wrong
responsible for hiding evidence
that could have exonerated many
people convicted of crimes,
yeah
will think about this.
The number of times that she was
ordered to hand over exculpatory
evidence evidence that would
have shown that the individual
accused of a crime did not
commit the crime is multiple
times. The court had to force her
to actually hand over what she
knew was exculpatory crime,
not only that she is
individually responsible for
thousands of people. Spending
more time than they should have
spent for very low level, drug
offenses, some simple possession
of marijuana
so to now come forward and
everybody should be weighing in
on criminal justice reform. But
the one thing this
vice president and this
administration has failed to do
is address criminal justice
reform
will right,
even though they promised in
the campaign promised again
now.
Will the issue was not whether
or not she was right or wrong on
one particular issue.
It is whether or not she is a
fraud
that she is simply lying who she
has been inside of the system.
Brett. I want to ask you while
were at it. There is level of
honesty in response to the Kite
Rittenhouse acquittal.
You hear from so many the
conclusion. The goal up root the
system.
I believe that is the exact
words used by the attorney
general in New York.
We need to uproot the system.
What is going on here
were seeing honesty. There are
people that just want to do away
with our criminal justice
system
yeah.
This is a scary sort of
frightening time for us to see
what leaders in this country are
trying to do to the criminal
justice system.
No question: there are things
that need to be fixed with it,
but if you spent anytime
watching what happened in the
Rittenhouse courtroom, watching
what the prosecutor tried to do,
the abusive decision making that
went on in both charging and
trying to try an individual who
has now been deemed to have not
committed a crime. If you see
now, what were trying to
historically suggest that
should have happened is a
conviction, despite the fact that
an innocent man was in the
courtroom being accused of
crimes he didnt commit
for us to be taking that
position as a country means
were on very troubling times,
and I hope that they take a
different stance on this going
forward.
Will I think they, I think the
stance they want to take lets
have trial by social media,
because an innocent kid, as
clearly evidenced by the facts,
wasnt sacrificed because of his
race.
So therefore lets move to trial
by twitter,
trial by Twitter,
facts, dont matter anymore.
Transcript generated on 2021-11-21.