© Christine CornellCourtroom action depicting Bill Cosby and his legal team, September 6, 2016.
Bill Cosby's lawyer said Tuesday that his client has been
the victim of "racial bias and prejudice" as the sexual assault allegations against him have played out in the court of public opinion.The statement — which targeted lawyer Gloria Allred, who has represented some of the women who accused Cosby of sexual misconduct — came as a
trial date of June 5, 2017, was set this afternoon in the comedian's Pennsylvania sexual assault case.
"Mr. Cosby is no stranger to discrimination and racial hatred, and throughout his career Mr. Cosby has always used his voice and his celebrity to highlight the commonalities and has portrayed the differences that are not negative — no matter the race, gender and religion of a person," his lawyer Brian McMonagle told reporters outside the courthouse. "Yet over the last 14 months, Mr. Cosby and those who have supported him have been ignored while lawyers like Gloria Allred hold
press conferences to accuse him of crimes for unwitnessed events that allegedly occurred almost a half-century earlier.
"The time has come to shine a spotlight on the
trampling of Mr. Cosby's civil rights. Gloria Allred apparently loves the media spotlight more than she cares about justice. She calls herself a
civil rights attorney, but her campaign against Mr. Cosby
builds on racial bias and prejudice that can pollute the court of public opinion. And when the
media repeats her accusations — with no evidence, no trial and no jury — we are moved backwards as a country and away from the America that our civil rights leaders sacrificed so much to create."
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