BILL COSBY'S LEGAL DEFENSE TEAM DEMEANED WOMEN (CHARACTER ASSASSINATION)

BILL COSBY'S LEGAL TEAM DEMEANED WOMEN (CHARACTER ASSASSINATION):

COSBY'S LEGAL DEFENSE TEAM ATTACKED HIS FEMALE VICTIMS AND TRIED TO DISCREDIT THEM.

ATTEMPTING TO PAINT FEMALE VICTIMS AS "CRAZY" OR "UNSTABLE" IS AN OLD DIRTY TRICK.

THANK GOD IT FAILED.

SEXUAL PREDATORS & ABUSERS OF WOMEN NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.

TIME'S UP.


Post Sources: ABC News, Washington Post, Youtube


****** How Bill Cosby's defense team's vicious strategy backfired: ANALYSIS


Even in defeat, disgrace and public humiliation, they kept on coming after the women.

In an extraordinary post-trial interview on Friday with “Good Morning America” chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, Cosby representatives Andrew Wyatt and Ebonee Benson called one juror a racist and suggested that one Cosby accuser and a friend who say they were drugged and assaulted had initially gone to visit the comedian because “they like big, black men.”

Stephanopoulos seemed to wince, and asked her, “Do you really want to go there?”

She did.

Benson went on to compare Cosby’s conviction on three counts of felony sexual assault on Thursday to the fate of Emmett Till, the 14-year old Mississippi child brutalized and murdered in 1955 for whistling at a white woman.

“This became a public lynching,” Wyatt said of the trial. “The South came to the East.”

A number of Cosby’s dozens of accusers are African-Americans, as are Benson and Wyatt.

Employing a vicious defense strategy that sought to exploit race, gender, age and social activism, Cosby’s defense team went low early and kept on going -- launching stunning, mostly unfounded broadsides against the judge, the prosecutor, the witnesses and the jurors -– and openly mocked the widely accepted scholarship of a renowned expert on sexual assault.

Mocking Science

In a powerful, tactical move, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, prosecutors Kevin Steele, Kristen Feden and Stewart Ryan chose as their first witness in the retrial Dr. Barbara Ziv -- a sexual assault expert who testified that significant statistical evidence has shown that most sexual assault victims respond differently to attacks than victims of other crimes.

Anticipating withering defense cross-examinations from celebrity defense attorney Tom Mesereau and co-counsel Kathleen Bliss, the move aimed to give some measure of protection to the succession of six women who would follow, each testifying that Cosby drugged and sexually violated them.

District Attorney Steele knew jurors needed to first understand the degree of lasting trauma sexual violence can inflict before listening to the graphic stories they were about to hear, a colleague told ABC News.

Ziv testified that “the vast majority of victims of sexual assault do not report to authorities,” and that sexual assault reporting can be delayed “from days to weeks to months to years.”

She explained how common counter-intuitive behavior is in victims of sexual violence, and how they rarely act the way you would think they would.

“Most people don’t fight back, don’t say anything, and don’t, you know, immediately, when it’s over, don’t jump up and leave,” Ziv said. “They are in a state of shock, that’s how they describe it.

“The most common scenario is that when someone is being sexually assaulted, they’re sort of frozen, they don’t know what’s happening ... but they can take their time before they end the situation," she added. "That’s usually the pattern in the majority of sexual assaults.”

During closing arguments, Bliss characterized Ziv’s testimony as nonsense.

“We are not snowflakes,” the former federal prosecutor told jurors in her deep Oklahoma drawl. “We are not delicate flowers, and so this rape myth that someone like Dr. Ziv would ask you to buy into –- where if she says X, it’s rape; if she says Y, it’s rape; if she says Z, it’s rape.

"Whatever she says, don’t worry about the details,” Bliss continued sarcastically. “Don’t corroborate her. Don’t check her out.”

Shaming women

In some ways, the defense strategy was as simple as it was anachronistic: destroy the accuser’s credibility, shame her supporting witnesses and ridicule emerging science on the truly caustic effects of sexual assault on both the bodies and the psyches of victims.

Mesereau called Andrea Constand -- whose sexual assault case led to Cosby's conviction -- a “con artist” and a “pathological liar” so wily and deceptive that “you would need pliers to pull the truth from this woman.”

He accused her of “destroying the physical evidence” that could have proved Cosby innocent -- by not coming forward for a year after the alleged attack.

An email she cut, pasted and forwarded in college to one person became a “pyramid scheme.” Allegations of decades-old use of hallucinogens became an “addict[ion] to magic mushrooms.”

Constand acknowledged under cross-examination that she had been in Cosby’s hotel room at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut late one night after he invited her to the resort to see him perform.

“Did you think it appropriate that you be in a married man’s room in a hotel in Connecticut at that time of night?” Mesereau pressed.

Constand calmly replied that she was summoned to the room by the comedian to get some “baked goods that Mr. Cosby wanted to give me.”

She said she left the room within 10 minutes.

At another point, Mesereau suggested that Constand had violated the terms of her $3.38 million dollar settlement with Cosby by testifying, when a close reading of the language in subsequent questioning by Feden revealed that the attorney had left out a key element of the agreement -- and that Constand hadn’t violated the terms at all.

The five additional accusers came under equally lethal scrutiny.

In one of the most remarkable moments in the trial, Bliss told jurors that former supermodel and witness Janice Dickinson was a “failed starlet” and an “aged-out model” who sounded “like she had slept with every single man on the planet.”

“Is Ms. Dickinson really the moral beacon that the women’s movement wants?” she wondered aloud.

A sweet-voiced Midwestern grandmother named Heidi Thomas was painted as desperate for attention after a bid in her early-20s to become an entertainer.

Thomas finally got her wish, Bliss told jurors sarcastically, after getting to testify before the national press in a high-profile trial.

“She’s now living the dream, ladies and gentlemen," Bliss mocked.

Thomas had earlier testified to being summoned at the age of 24 to an empty home in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, for acting coaching, only to be drugged by Cosby and wake up in groggy horror and confusion. He forced himself onto her, she testified.

When accuser Janice Baker-Kinney denied repeatedly under cross-examination to conspiring with Constand against the star during a chance meeting at a women’s march last year, Mesereau openly mocked her.

“Are you rolling your eyes at me?” she demanded of the attorney, who without a moment’s hesitation shot back “yes,” drawing gasps from the gallery.

Under cross-examination, Chelan Lasha sobbed as she was called a liar who was convicted a decade earlier of making a false statement to police in an unrelated case.

Bliss portrayed all of them as having made up stories and come forward for “money, press conferences, TV show, salacious coverage, ratings.”

She paused for effect and concluded dismissively, “Sex sells.”

Taking on the judge

The circle-the-wagons defense strategy sought to impugn the motivations of all comers.

Judge Steven T. O’Neill denied a pre-trial motion by the prosecution to recuse himself from the case because his wife counsels college sexual assault victims and once may have made a $100 donation to a campus group. The group later made a donation to another campus group that had recently announced plans to protest Cosby outside of court.

The protest never materialized, and neither did the recusal.

In issuing his ruling, O’Neill accused the defense of trying to “trivialize” his wife’s work, and -- in a voice cracking with emotion -- he ultimately declared that “I am my own individual in making decisions here, and my wife’s personal beliefs and professional pursuits and what she does for a living are just of no consequence.”

After appearing to choke up, O’Neill apologized to the court “if emotions become a part of [this]."

“But it’s a difficult thing if the parties choose to bring the families into it," he added.

Playing the race card

During jury selection, Bliss claimed a peremptory strike of an African American woman demonstrated racial discrimination, even though two of the eight jurors by then impaneled were also black.

After a break, Bliss returned to court to claim to the judge that a member of her team had just overheard a Cosby prosecutor making a “repulsive” racially discriminatory remark.

An exasperated Steele called the claim “ludicrous” as one of his assistant district attorneys stormed out of court. The issue was never raised in open court again, and representatives for the prosecution, the defense and court administrators all declined to comment at the time.

On Friday morning, Wyatt was still litigating a failed pre-trial bid to have a different juror thrown out for, again, being overheard making a racist comment.

The actual remarks, if any, were never made public by the court, and Judge O’Neill rejected the defense motion bid to strike that juror from the pool.

But by then it was too late, Benson told Stephanopoulos on Friday.

“The bias was already there,” she said.

Asked whether the scores of women who have accused Cosby in recent years of sexual violence could really all be lying, Benson was ready with her own questions.

“Since when are all people honest?" she asked. "Since when are all women honest?”

OJ SIMPSON (70) IS FREE AT LAST AFTER NINE YRS IN JAIL (KARMA)

OJ SIMPSON (70) IS FREE AT LAST AFTER NINE YRS IN JAIL (KARMA):

NO DOUBLE JEOPARDY BUT WHITE FOLKS FINALLY MADE OJ PAY FOR HIS EX-WIFE NICOLE & RON GOLDMAN.

TRUMPED UP CHARGES WERE REALLY PAYBACK FOR MURDER.


Sources: Fox News, LA Times, NBC News, Vibe, Youtube


***** O.J. Simpson is granted parole after serving 9 years for Vegas robbery

He once drew the spotlight because he sought it. He bathed in it because he loved it. He chased the spotlight until it finally chased him back.

O.J. Simpson, the polarizing former football star, seemed to suggest he was ready to recede from the spotlight after succeeding in his quest for freedom after being incarcerated for nine years at a desert prison in northern Nevada.

Simpson, convicted of robbery and kidnapping, was granted parole Thursday — a unanimous vote by the four-member Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners reported instantly by national and international media. He could be free as soon as Oct. 1.

His release, too, is unlikely to go unnoticed. The moment Simpson received his fourth and final vote from the Nevada Board of Parole recommending release, he dropped his head, as if to give a quiet cheer of celebration to himself, before responding, “Thank you.”

He didn’t look at his attorney or his daughter Arnelle Simpson, who had argued for his release.

Simpson, 70, instead bowed his head again and placed his hands on the simple wooden table, as if in prayer as, once again, his every movement was broadcast to millions of people on national television who were curious to learn his fate.

The board asked him about life outside prison. What might it be like? Can you handle it?

The former USC and NFL star running back shrugged it off like a tackler who had taken a bad angle on him. “I’ve been recognized since I was 19,” he said. “I’ve dealt with it my whole life.”

Simpson told the board he wanted to be with his family after missing birthdays and graduations. When it was suggested he might have a webcast or blog once he’s out, he shook his head.

Not interested.
But there was immense interest in him. Television trucks squeezed into a tight parking lot where the board met in a building in a light industrial park in Carson City. More were encamped about 100 miles northeast outside Lovelock Correctional Facility — accessible on a skinny road that had a checkpoint and a sign noting a “special event.”

On social media, a familiar cry rang out: “The Juice is loose.”

Prison had separated the Hall of Fame running back from the glitzy lifestyle he once led, Simpson testified at the hearing. He said he hadn’t drunk alcohol in nine years and didn’t miss it. He has been the commissioner of an 18-team prison softball league. He took a prison computer class not because he was interested in computers, but so he could exchange electronic messages with his four children, because, he said, his kids were less responsive to phone calls.

“Are you humbled by this incarceration?” asked Susan Jackson, a parole commissioner.

“Oh, yes, sure,” Simpson responded. “I wish this would have never happened.… If I would have made a better judgment back then, none of this would have happened.”

Simpson expressed some regret but did not appear overly apologetic. Remorse, however, is not a requirement for parole under Nevada law. “The board does not require that an inmate state or indicate that they are remorseful,” Board of Parole spokesman David M. Smith said.

During the hearing, Simpson was assured by one of his victims that he already has a ride waiting for him when he gets out.
“I feel that it’s time to give him a second chance; it’s time for him to go home to his family, his friends,” Bruce Fromong, a sports memorabilia dealer and a friend of Simpson’s, told the board.

Fromong was threatened and robbed by Simpson and some of his associates in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2007, and his testimony in that case led to Simpson’s imprisonment. But, Fromong told the board, “if he called me tomorrow and said, ‘Bruce, I’m getting out, would you pick me up?’” Fromong paused, turned to Simpson and addressed him by his nickname: “Juice, I’d be here tomorrow. I mean that, buddy.”

He once drew the spotlight because he sought it. He bathed in it because he loved it. He chased the spotlight until it finally chased him back.

O.J. Simpson, the polarizing former football star, seemed to suggest he was ready to recede from the spotlight after succeeding in his quest for freedom after being incarcerated for nine years at a desert prison in northern Nevada.

Simpson, convicted of robbery and kidnapping, was granted parole Thursday — a unanimous vote by the four-member Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners reported instantly by national and international media. He could be free as soon as Oct. 1.

His release, too, is unlikely to go unnoticed. The moment Simpson received his fourth and final vote from the Nevada Board of Parole recommending release, he dropped his head, as if to give a quiet cheer of celebration to himself, before responding, “Thank you.”

He didn’t look at his attorney or his daughter Arnelle Simpson, who had argued for his release.

Simpson, 70, instead bowed his head again and placed his hands on the simple wooden table, as if in prayer as, once again, his every movement was broadcast to millions of people on national television who were curious to learn his fate.

The board asked him about life outside prison. What might it be like? Can you handle it? The former USC and NFL star running back shrugged it off like a tackler who had taken a bad angle on him. “I’ve been recognized since I was 19,” he said. “I’ve dealt with it my whole life.”

Simpson told the board he wanted to be with his family after missing birthdays and graduations. When it was suggested he might have a webcast or blog once he’s out, he shook his head. Not interested.

But there was immense interest in him. Television trucks squeezed into a tight parking lot where the board met in a building in a light industrial park in Carson City. More were encamped about 100 miles northeast outside Lovelock Correctional Facility — accessible on a skinny road that had a checkpoint and a sign noting a “special event.”
On social media, a familiar cry rang out: “The Juice is loose.”

Prison had separated the Hall of Fame running back from the glitzy lifestyle he once led, Simpson testified at the hearing. He said he hadn’t drunk alcohol in nine years and didn’t miss it. He has been the commissioner of an 18-team prison softball league. He took a prison computer class not because he was interested in computers, but so he could exchange electronic messages with his four children, because, he said, his kids were less responsive to phone calls.
“Are you humbled by this incarceration?” asked Susan Jackson, a parole commissioner.

“Oh, yes, sure,” Simpson responded. “I wish this would have never happened.… If I would have made a better judgment back then, none of this would have happened.”

Simpson expressed some regret but did not appear overly apologetic. Remorse, however, is not a requirement for parole under Nevada law. “The board does not require that an inmate state or indicate that they are remorseful,” Board of Parole spokesman David M. Smith said.

During the hearing, Simpson was assured by one of his victims that he already has a ride waiting for him when he gets out.

“I feel that it’s time to give him a second chance; it’s time for him to go home to his family, his friends,” Bruce Fromong, a sports memorabilia dealer and a friend of Simpson’s, told the board.

Fromong was threatened and robbed by Simpson and some of his associates in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2007, and his testimony in that case led to Simpson’s imprisonment. But, Fromong told the board, “if he called me tomorrow and said, ‘Bruce, I’m getting out, would you pick me up?’” Fromong paused, turned to Simpson and addressed him by his nickname: “Juice, I’d be here tomorrow. I mean that, buddy.”

Arnelle Simpson became emotional shortly after beginning her testimony, sometimes stopping to shake her head.

“No one really knows how much we have been through, this ordeal the last nine years,” she said. She stopped and exhaled deeply, excusing herself before putting her fist up to her mouth to steady herself. “My experience with him — is that he’s like my best friend, my rock.”

She added: “As a family, we recognize he is not a perfect man.… But he has done his best.”

Simpson looked upbeat during his first public appearance in years, smiling and nodding to parole commissioners through a video link from the prison.

But while the parole hearing was about his 2008 robbery conviction, many of Simpson’s answers to the four commissioners brought back memories of his acquittal in the 1994 slayings of Ron Goldman and Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson.

“I’m in no danger to pull a gun on anybody. I’ve never been accused of it,” he said. “Nobody has ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them.”

Goldman and Brown were killed with a knife. Simpson lawyer Malcolm LaVergne noted the killings — and how they played no official part in Thursday’s proceedings — at a televised news conference in Lovelock after the board’s decision.

“Obviously, there's a 10,000-pound elephant in that room, and I think we were very successful in making sure that that elephant was sleeping and that it was washed and very clean and that it never started to rear its head,” LaVergne said.

Simpson, who turned 70 this month, only barely resembles the athletic younger man who was tried and acquitted of murder in 1995.

Through a slight delay, Simpson blinked rapidly and blew out a deep breath at one point as he listened to state parole Chairwoman Connie Bisbee read off the list of charges that landed him a sentence of nine to 33 years.

“Mr. Simpson, you are getting the same hearing everyone else gets,” Bisbee said, then acknowledged the media firestorm that his hearing has generated — one of the few news events to edge President Trump off the national news broadcasts. “Thank you, ma’am,” Simpson replied, laughing.

This was Simpson’s second parole hearing. His last one, in 2013, resulted in parole on one of the charges stemming from the 2007 robbery and kidnapping.

Simpson said on several occasions that he was “a good guy” and indicated that he mostly wanted to spend time with his family in Florida — and that the state of Nevada might be glad to be rid of him.

“No comment,” one of the commissioners said to some laughter.

Simpson expressed regret at being involved in the crime, but drew some pushback from commissioners who took issue with his version of events, in which he said he didn’t know a gun had been brandished in the hotel room during the robbery.

But Simpson held to his version, repeatedly apologizing and expressing regret for leaving a wedding in Las Vegas to go recover memorabilia he said was his.

“I am sorry things turned out the way they did,” Simpson said. “I had no intent to commit a crime.”

At one point, Simpson said he had not made any excuses for what he did during the years he’d spent in prison, but in the same sentence, he turned the blame toward the men who had joined him in intimidating the memorabilia dealers.

“I never should have allowed these alleged security guys to help me,” Simpson said. “These guys took over.”

DISNEY SHOULDN'T BE SUED FOR LANE GRAVES' DEATH; (PARENTS WEREN'T INVESTIGATION)

DISNEY SHOULDN'T BE SUED FOR LANE'S GRAVES DEATH; WERE HIS PARENTS INVESTIGATED?

WHERE IS PETA??

LANE'S PARENTS WERE NOT INVESTIGATED BY POLICE AS THE BLACK PARENTS WERE IN OHIO AFTER GORILLA INCIDENT.

Sources: CBS News, CNN, Chicago Tribune, Wear Your Voice Mag, Romper.com, WHOTV, Youtube

Within the span of two weeks, two very young Children were attacked by wild animals.

Lane Graves, 2, of Nebraska was killed by Alligators while vacationing at DISNEY World in Florida.  Several Alligators were Euthanized before Lane's lifeless body was recovered.

I offer my prayers and condolences to the parents of Lane Graves.

By the way Lane Graves was a White child.

Isaiah Gregg, 4, of Ohio was recently spared death after falling into a Gorilla pit while visiting the CINCINNATI ZOO with his parents.

However in order to save little Isaiah, an Adult male Gorilla named Harambe had to be shot after he was seen dragging Isaiah and demonstrated other signs of Aggression.

After Harambe was shot and killed, PETA an organization which protects Animals' rights, immediately began publicly protesting and questioning why CINCINNATI ZOO officials allowed Harambe to be killed in order to save a BLACK male child.

Ohio Police also investigated Isaiah Gregg's parents to see if they perhaps intentionally allowed Isaiah to fall into the Gorilla pit in order to later SUE the Cincinnati Zoo.

But I didn't hear PETA screaming about Killing the Alligators at the Disney resort while Law Enforcement officials were trying to recover little Lane Graves' body.

And............

No Police in Florida are investigating the parents of Lane Graves to see if they properly supervised Lane prior to him being dragged off by an Alligator and killed.

Two very young Human Beings were recently  attacked by wild Animals.  

One Child survived, the other Child died.

One Child was White, the other Child was BLACK.

Why does the Mainstream Media, Police and Federal Government continue to inject RACE into every situation in American society?

DISNEY had "NO SWIMMING" signs posted around the beach resort where Lane Graves was snatched by Alligators, yet Lane's parents allowed him to WADE in the water.

Is DISNEY still legally GROSSLY NEGLIGENT or CULPABLE?

****** What a gorilla and an alligator can tell us about ourselves

Not far from the Magic Kingdom, a child was swept up by an alligator, dragged into a lagoon and killed.

The 2-year-old had wandered away from his parents, as toddlers often do. Before they knew it, the child had made his way to the edge of the water where a 4- to 7-foot gator laid waiting. A day after their son's body was found, the Nebraska couple who had been on vacation at an upscale Walt Disney World resort thanked the public for their prayers and asked to be left alone to grieve. For the most part, the public and the media obliged.

People correctly understood that this was a horrific tragedy that no family should have to endure. A toddler had innocently gotten too close to a man-made lake where alligators dwelled, placing his life in grave danger. And in the end, the helpless child lay dead.

There was no chorus of brutal attacks on the parents for losing sight of their child for a quick moment. There was no online petition calling for child endangerment charges against the mother. There were no candlelight vigils for the five alligators that were killed by rescue workers during their frantic search for the boy. And no one blamed the child for simply doing what children do.

Any of those reactions would have been insensitive, even inhumane. Yet that is exactly what happened last month after a 3-year-old boy fell into a gorilla habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo.

Of course, there is an obvious difference in the two incidents. Lane Graves died and Isaiah survived. Other than that, the circumstances basically were the same. Why, then, was the public reaction so different?

I believe the answer has a lot to do with how we value lives. Some simply are more expendable than others. Lane was from an affluent, suburban family. Isaiah is not. Lane was white. Isaiah is African-American.

After writing a recent column that said zoo officials were right in killing the gorilla after it dragged the little boy through a moat, a reader sent me this email:

"Your column about not understanding those who are outraged at Harambe's murder troubles me deeply. A person named Harambe was shot because his life was deemed less valuable than a person named Isaiah. Like racism, 'speciesism' (sic) is fueled by fear and ignorance."

I could not bring myself to respond.

It should not be a surprise to anyone that poor, black boys from the inner city are the most vulnerable of America's children. When we look at an African-American boy from Cincinnati, we don't always see the same inherent innocence that we would notice in a white child from Nebraska, though they are close to the same age.

Multiple studies have found that black boys are more likely to be mistaken as older than they actually are. As a result, they experience higher suspension rates in school and are thus introduced to the criminal justice system and other adverse situations at much younger ages that white boys.

According to the Civil Rights Data Collection, a national survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, schools begin kicking African-American students out of class at higher rates than white students as early as preschool.

A recent survey found that black boys, though they made up 52 percent of preschool enrollment, represented 79 percent of preschoolers who were suspended once and 82 percent of preschoolers suspended multiple times.

One of biggest problems, according to researchers, is perception.

Whether we realize it or not, skin tone and social class often play a role in determining our comfort level. And the way we respond to people sometimes is based on how comfortable we feel with them.

In a Stanford University study, researchers asked 190 teachers to review information about a student misbehaving in class. In one scenario, a student fell asleep in class. Some teachers were told the boy's name was Jake, and for others, it was Darnell, a common name for African-Americans. In many cases, Darnell received the harsher punishment.

The result is a growing achievement gap between black and white boys. But it also lends itself to a lack of compassion for African-American boys.

Cincinnati Zoo officials had no choice but to shoot and kill the western lowland gorilla, yet it created an unnatural outpouring of rage. Most of it was leveled at the mother, who had turned to attend to one of her other three children when Isaiah scampered off. Before police and prosecutors decided that no charges were warranted, an online petition seeking "Justice for Harambe" had earned more than 100,000 signatures in less than 48 hours.

Anger also was clearly aimed at Isaiah.

Some people didn't think the toddler seemed frightened while in the grasp of a 450-pound dominant male gorilla. Some criticized him for being too curious, pointing out that he had been overhead telling his mother that he wanted to go swimming with the gorillas. Some just labeled him as a bad kid when, in fact, he was just being a normal kid.

Lane's family, including his 4-year-old sister, were sitting in a beach-like area near the resort's pool when he went to the edge of the bank to play in the water, authorities said. His playpen was set up nearby.

Bloggers took to social media asking for compassion for the parents. Some compared Lane to 18-month-old "Baby Jessica" who was rescued after falling into a well in 1987. Another said it was reminiscent of the abduction of 6-year-old Adam Walsh from a shopping mall in 1981.

The Orange County sheriff said a routine investigation would be conducted but quickly added that charges against the parents were unlikely.

"I believe what this 2-year-old was doing was what, perhaps, any 2-year-old might be doing as well," the sheriff said at a news conference.

The sheriff got it right about Lane and his parents, just as authorities in Cincinnati got it right about Isaiah and his.

What happened at the Disney resort was horrible. And what could have happened at the Cincinnati Zoo would have been just as bad.

Joe Scarborough vs Baltimore's Police Brutality: "Beyond A Reasonable Doubt" (WHITE vs BLACK Justice)