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Kamala Harris reacts to Rittenhouse verdict: There's 'a lot more work to do' on justice system reform

2021-11-21 | 🔗
Former federal prosecutor Brett Tolman reacted to the vice president's remarks following the announcement of the Rittenhouse verdict.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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.