This race-baiting lawyer attempts to use rhetoric to exonerate these thugs and this judge was not having it at all.
When the lawyer said the defendant was innocent and was just running from racist cops,
“Your Honor, in light of what’s happening in this country, with unarmed black men being killed…” public defender Dale Miller began to argue before the judge quickly cut him off.
Judge John “Jay” Hurley would have NONE of it…
“Don’t hand me that! Don’t hand me that!” Judge Hurley interrupted Miller raising his hand and swatting away Miller’s futile race card attempt.
“Don’t even go down that road,” Judge Hurley continued. “I’m not going to let you go down that road. That is so off base. We’ve got a young man — I don’t care what color he is — He’s in a neighborhood he doesn’t live in at 1:41 in the morning, hiding under someone’s dock in the water with a holster on, after a police officer had a shot taken at him. Don’t hand me this, ‘He’s a black man running from police brutality. Look, that is not appropriate in this case. That’s not there and I’m not going to let you poison this case with bringing in something that has nothing to do with it.”
Watch the full exchange here