Alan Dershowitz Rips Charges Against Baltimore Cops: ‘Sad Day for Justice’

[okaawhatever]

Alan Dershowitz really went after Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby today for charging the six cops involved in the death of Freddie Gray, saying it was entirely based on politics and “crowd control.”

Dershowitz lamented that “this is a very sad day for justice” and told Steve Malzberg that Mosby acted out of a “desire to prevent riots.” It will be “virtually impossible,” he predicted, for the six officers involved to get a fair trial.

Continued at the link where he says, among other things that "if she does win, she'll be reversed on appeal"

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/alan-dershowitz-rips-charges-against-baltimore-cops-sad-day-for-justice/

[Cooley Hurd]

1. A sad day for justice was...

...when Dershowitz was admitted to the bar.

[elleng]

11. Close to my post, Cooley!

[Cooley Hurd]

14. GMTA!

[madaboutharry]

36. I wanted to write that!

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Oh please, Alan. Shut the hell up.

Charging the six cops was based on the murder of an innocent man.

[malaise]

3. It was never a rough day when police acted as judge, jury and executioner

against African-American men.

Fugg him!

[leftofcool]

4. Boo Hoo!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

5. Dershowitz likes to torture people, so what he thinks doesn't matter.

What he thinks or says hasn't mattered for 15 years.

[elleng]

6. The sad day for justice was when Dershowitz lost his mind;

he USED to have a good one.

[shenmue]

19. True

[hifiguy]

7. Dershowitz has been slowly losing his mind

for about 15 years now.

I remember when he was a civil libertarian.

[elleng]

20. So do many of us remember that, hifiguy.

[arely staircase]

31. he lost me with this

acceptable justification for committing torture.[4]

Views in favor of accepting torture in emergencies[edit]

Alan Dershowitz, a prominent American defense attorney, surprised some observers by giving limited support to the idea that torture could be justified. He argued that human nature can lead to unregulated abuse "off the books". Therefore, it would be better if there were a regulated procedure through which an interrogator could request a "torture warrant" and that requiring a warrant would establish a paper trail of accountability. Torturers, and those who authorize torture, could be held to account for excesses. Dershowitz's suggested torture warrants, similar to search warrants and phone tap warrants, would spell out the limits on the techniques that interrogators may use, and the extent to which they may abridge a suspect's rights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticking_time_bomb_scenario

[pinboy3niner]

8. Rips charges without knowing the evidence on which the charges were based

Yeah, no agenda here.

[Scootaloo]

9. Did he say this while flying the "Lolita Express"?

What I guess i'm saying is that Alan Dershowitz can go choke on a fucking crowbar for all i care.

[Jesus Malverde]

27. DUZY...nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. what a momzer

its yiddish............. look it up

[geek tragedy]

12. The chief apologist for apartheid in Palestine bemoans its setbacks in Baltimore. nt

[still_one]

13. Really Dershowitz? What about Freddie Gray? This isn't the first time something like this has

happened either. Some of the Baltimore police have this pattern of behavior.

[shraby]

15. When was the last time Alan Dershowitz was relevant to anything?

[spanone]

16. hey dersh, she's seen the evidence, you ain't seen shit.

a sad day for alan

[rjsquirrel]

17. That old prick

needs to shut up.
Maybe he could party some more with Jeffrey Epstein. Or join the IDF.

I don't wish him dead but I'll be happy to hear of his passing:

[BillZBubb]

18. Dershowitz has become a sorry excuse for a human being.

He's on the wrong side of every issue and an enabler of brutality.

[Kber]

21. That's what trials are for

You know, that thing Mr. Gray didn't get before he was illegally arrested and then killed?

[UTUSN]

22. Dersh is poster boy for sad days for justice & says (with TOOBIN) CRUZ is very smart

[leveymg]

23. Another confirmation that Dershowitz has embraced his own inner adversary

The man loves power, thinks this world is perfectly corrupt, and hates anyone who might change it to help the oppressed. A perfected cynic.

[pnwmom]

24. This is Alan, displaying his usual M.O.

Same thing he did with Amanda Knox, about whom he opined that the evidence for her guilt was clear -- though the only thing clear was that he wasn't the least bit familiar with the case. (The High Court finally and permanently declared she did not commit the crime.)

Alan craves media attention, and he gets it by shooting from the hip and being a contrarian.This is another example.

[XemaSab]

25. Says one of the guys who got OJ off

smh

[MoonRiver]

26. As I recall he was adamantly in favor of torture.

So his current statements are perfectly consistent with his previous ones. In other words,

[bahrbearian]

28. K&R for Du's Comments

[99Forever]

29. Just when I think Dershowitz can't be more of a stupid asshole...

... he up and proves me wrong. Slither back under your rock, loser.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

30. He is a defense attorney, he is supposed to act like this. I wish he wouldnt since he isnt working

for any of the accused, but defense attorneys will say shit like this

And we all best be grateful they do, in case it is ever one of us in the cross-hairs

[BlueStater]

32. This guy was also impressed with Ted Cruz.

That's all you need to know about the mindset of this jerk.

[MerryBlooms]

33. Dershowtiz can go fuck himself. These murdering cops need to be in prison.

[workinclasszero]

34. Six cops and a black male prisoner get in a van.

Hours later, six cops get out of the van with a dead Black male prisoner.

This deliberate killing by the police using well known torture techniques like the nickel ride/rough ride have got to be stopped!
We are descending to nazi Gestapo levels of police here!

Fuck dershowitz and anyone else who see no problems with our rogue out of control militarized police as long as the are mostly snuffing black males!

[GeorgeGist]

35. Even Harvard needs to shit.