Wife: Cosby convicted by 'mob justice, not real justice'

[demmiblue]

Source: AP

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby’s wife is calling for a criminal investigation into the prosecutor behind his sexual assault conviction, saying the case was “mob justice, not real justice” and a “tragedy” that must be undone.

Camille Cosby commented on the case for the first time on Thursday in a statement issued through a spokesman a week after her husband of 54 years was convicted of aggravated indecent assault.

Camille Cosby called her husband’s chief accuser Andrea Constand a liar and compared the dozens of other women who’ve accused her husband to “lynch mobs” and his treatment to that of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy lynched in 1955 over false allegations he flirted with a white woman.

Prosecutors and Constand’s lawyers did not immediately respond to messages.

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[beachbum bob]

1. cosby was convicted because he was guilty.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Cosby as Till

Might as well swing for the fences at this point, I guess.

[Cal Carpenter]

25. Yeah that's just disgusting

[hlthe2b]

3. Whoever is advising Camille is doing her no favors...

and if she is doing/saying this on her own, I wish a devoted friend would step in.

[marble falls]

4. She make any remarks about the Coz admitting he Sopered women's drinks to facilitate....

sex with them? If they really were consenting, why'd he have to rape them?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Sopered? That doesn't mean what you think it means. "Spiked" would be more apropos. . . . nt

[marble falls]

9. He used sopers to spike their drinks. Qualudes were called Sopers in the late seventies and ...

eighties and they were popular with men who used them to get women "in the mood", ie passed out.

Soperific is the class of drug the Qualude belongs


http://www.dictionary.com/browse/soper

Slang definitions & phrases for soper
soaper

noun

A sedative drug, methaqualone; Quaalude2: an apparently insatiable market for the ''sopers''

[1960s+ Narcotics; fr Sopor, the trademark of a brand of the drug, fr the Latin root for ''sleep'']



https://www.wordnik.com/words/soporific

Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Inducing or tending to induce sleep.
adj. Drowsy.
n. A drug or other substance that induces sleep; a hypnotic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.
n. Something boring or dull.
adj. Tending to induce sleep.
adj. boring, dull

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous.
n. A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.



What would be more apropos would be to do a little research before calling someone out. All that took me less than five minutes.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Ah. Thanks. But I actually DID the research.

It said "sopered" meant to get drunk on home brew.

Sorry, I only did 3 minutes of research. You did 5 minutes and it is good because it sheds more light on the background of the modern usage as well. I had not made the connection with "soporific" which I should have because I know that word.

[marble falls]

23. Bless your heart bernado. Bless your heart.

[MaryMagdaline]

5. Donald Trump has given all criminal defendants their talking points

Attack the prosecution and the accusers.

[christx30]

21. That has been going on forever.

It’s a standard attack to accuse the accusers. People were accusing Anita Hill of a variety of things during the Clarance Thomas confirmation hearings. It’s been going on for centuries. Trump’s brand of shadiness is nothing special or new.

[catbyte]

6. Seriously, she just needs to stfu already. She's accepted his despicable behavior for decades.

Loyalty is a wonderful thing, but when it's misplaced in a predator and a criminal, she ends up being just as despicable as "her man." Give it up, Camille. You hitched your wagon to a vile sexual predator and rapist. Deal with it.

[padfun]

7. She is saying this because she doesnt want to lose his money.

This could open up a lot of lawsuits and Camille wants to keep her MONEY!!

[PatrickforO]

12. Well, that makes sense.

Because there have already been some civil suits.

[PatrickforO]

11. I feel bad for Camille. But Bill clearly is guilty of drugging and raping

numerous women.

For the life of me, I just don't get that - there's no apparent motive. Bill was a star and likely could have hooked up with any number of willing women - he was a handsome guy.

He was articulate. He had some education. He had money. Why in the hell did he feel he had to drug women, then? That's the piece of this whole ugly thing that I've never understood.

But it wasn't a mob. He had due process.

[rocktivity]

20. His motive was that he WAS a star

accomplished, famous, wealthy, and more than profitable enough to get away with it.

Emmet Till was subjected to a white mob's justice for allegedly whistling at one of "their" women. I don't think it's an accident that so many of of the women Cosby "whistled" at were white: I think he found it as just satisfying to have breached American sexual barriers as he did to have breached the racial, social, and financial ones.


rocktivity

[Lars39]

29. The drugging was just a means to getting a woman as close

to a dead woman as he could get. Some kinda weird sexual fetish. Just my 2 cents.

[AJT]

30. Why feel sorry for her? She knew he was cheating on her, and he confessed to drugging

women (with their consent?). She knew what he was doing and just didn't care.

[yallerdawg]

13. Except this was IN a court room.

With all legal rights afforded.

This fits exactly the definition of "real justice."

Gee - I hope she didn't just develop a blind eye to what is going on here.

[MurrayDelph]

28. Except to a lot of people

Justice means a decision in your favor.

[karynnj]

15. This is a case where it is likely better that there is no response other than something

defending the legal process.

Camille Crosby may well have, either through action or inaction, abetted Bill Crosby in evading any charges or even public accusations for years. As the number of accusations has risen, is it believable that she heard and knew nothing?

[rocktivity]

16. And is it believable that Camille hasn't noticed

that so many of his victims were white?




rocktivity

[karynnj]

17. Good point nt

[Happyhippychick]

18. Screw off Mrs. Enabler

[FM123]

26. Mrs Enabler - perfect choice of words.

[cannabis_flower]

19. NOT GONNA HAPPEN!

She say Andrea Constant is a liar! So she was there? I doubt it. If not, how would she know for sure?

[Orsino]

22. This wasn't what those words mean. n/t

[Initech]

24. Channeling her inner Principal Skinner I take it?

[xor]

27. The mob of women he raped or molested?

[MurrayDelph]

31. Two big differences between Cosby and Till

1) Till was only accused of flirting with a white woman. Cosby was accused of drugging and raping multiple women of various races.

2) Unlike Till, Cosby actually was guilty.

[christx30]

32. Emmett Till was accused by one woman of advances,

Emmett Till he was abducted, beaten, tortured, and shot in the head. His body was tossed to a river. His accuser later said that she made the whole thing up.

Cosby was investigated after years of stories of drugging women. He was tried in a court of law. Evidence was collected, analyzed. Cosby had a lawyer present and argued on his behalf. He was found guilty, and is being sentenced.

But, yeah, except for all of the actual facts, they're just the same. for Camille.

[rtracey]

33. Hmmmm

Shes a Stepford Wife....Will never admit she was fucked over, around, over and under..... good luck Camille, you are a victim too...Dont bring race into it... your husband is one of the biggest racist there is.

[WhiteTara]

34. Yeah. That "mob" sat right inside a courthouse and

listened to victim after victim tell the same tale. They calmly came to the same conclusion. Bill Cosby is a monster and deserves prison.

[tavernier]

35. Uttering the Till name is blasphemous

as she is trying to find a parallel between the two people.
She has NO shame.