Posted on 01/29/2020 6:33:53 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) is being called to suspend her presidential campaign after an Associated Press story published Tuesday showed she may have mishandled a case while she was Hennepin County's District Attorney.
As the county DA, Klobuchar led the case against Myon Burrell, who was a teenager at the time and was sentenced to life in prison for the 2002 murder of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards. The AP story revealed that Klobuchar prosecuted Burrell, now 33, despite there being little evidence and even though his co-defendant confessed to the crime and said Burrell wasn’t there.
Though Klobuchar was not the county’s top prosecutor the second time Burrell was convicted after filing an appeal, she reportedly denied his request to attend his mother’s funeral, claiming he was a threat to society.
In past debates, Klobuchar has touted her tough-on-crime stance as a Minneapolis prosecutor, and during her first Senate campaign, she recounted Burrell's conviction among others as her finding justice for black families who lost their children to gun violence.
On Wednesday, the Racial Justice Network, Minneapolis NAACP, Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar, and Communities United Against Police Brutality all asked Klobuchar to suspend her White House bid. Edwards's father has also come out saying he believes Burrell may have been wrongfully convicted.
“What I need people to understand is this isn’t about partisanship and this isn’t about politics,” Leslie Redmond, president of the Minneapolis NAACP said in a press conference. “This is about justice ... This isn’t just a situation that happened to the Central Park Five alone. This is a situation that happens all around America. This is a situation that happens right here in Minnesota.
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In any election, take nothing as a given. Every threat should be treated as real.
One reason Hilary lost was because she didn't take Trump seriously. All the time they were treating the Trump campaign as a joke believing their dirty trick would take him out he was gaining momentum and then it was too late.
Trump has to be THE most investigated president ever and I can't imagine there's anything left to investigate but who knows what evidence people can manufacture before the election. I'm still waiting for the deep-fake pee tape to be released.
It isn't over until the last vote is counted and even that isn't a guarantee anymore.
Watching her run I kept thinking...... who in hell ever told her she was presidential material.
Lady Nifong.
(or did Heels-Up Harris already claim that title?)
Klobitchar managed to fly in/out of a Council Bluffs Iowa venue last night. Newspaper article said there was 4 hours notice. Didn’t say if it was via plane or broom.
I want that on a tee shirt.
I always have fun participating.
Nothing would destroy the democrats faster than Bernie winning most of the delegates and then Hillary swooping in an getting handed the nomination.
That is a flat-out Obama move.
Get ready for more fun......
Trump has already issued the warning that “Schiff has yet to pay the price” ...........even before bolton was outed as a schnook.
Now Schiff’s on record as demanding Bolton as a witness “b/c everyday we’re finding new evidence.”
Oooooooo......that’s gonna hurt.
I wish we could like posts on FR... ;-)
So Bolton is on tape telling the interviewer “corruption is a problem in Ukraine.”
Maybe there’s a Bolton memo lying around advising Trump “to withhold foreign aid” ...... til we can get to the bottom of it.
I think you’re onto something.
“It does appear Democratic candidates are being targeted one-by-one.”
There won’t be any left not battered and bruised...but THEN; a familiar figure will come in to save the day at the convention!
G_d help us.
Exactly! If Hillary had won, these sub-groups would have been in open conflict with each other, fighting over OUR tax dollars.
THIS JUST IN———LAUGH BREAK
www.washingtontimes.com › news › jan › chuck-schumer-gives-lev-p...
Chuck Schumer gave Lev Parnas a coveted ticket to the impeachment trial.
Parnas got thrown out b/c he wears an ankle monitor.
Doesn't make sense. To get a brokered convention you need no winning first vote. Lowering Klobuchar's delegate count makes it more likely for Biden to get a winning first vote especially since she is a "moderate".
She’s being Kamala’ed.
Funny how the left ends up being attacked by the left. Winning!
And then there were eleven...
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