{"id":1135677,"date":"2021-12-20T22:04:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T03:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1135677"},"modified":"2021-12-20T22:04:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T03:04:39","slug":"exclusive-alan-dershowitz-on-kim-potter-this-is-a-racist-prosecution-of-a-white-woman-by-thug-keith-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-alan-dershowitz-on-kim-potter-this-is-a-racist-prosecution-of-a-white-woman-by-thug-keith-ellison\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Alan Dershowitz on Kim Potter: &#039;This Is a Racist Prosecution of a White Woman&#039; by &#039;Thug&#039; Keith Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-alan-dershowitz-on-kim-potter-this-is-a-racist-prosecution-of-a-white-woman-by-thug-keith-ellison%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1135677&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/kim-potter-trial-crying-AP-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz described the charging of former police officer Kim Potter with first-degree manslaughter in the killing of Daunte Wright by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison as a \u201cracist prosecution of a white woman\u201d on SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Sunday<\/em> with host Joel Pollak.<\/p>\n<p>Dershowitz said the charging of Potter was a function of today\u2019s \u201cracial climate.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf there weren\u2019t a racial issue here, nobody would be indicted,\u201d he remarked, \u201cand I think there were seven other people in recent years, cops who pulled the wrong weapon and shot with real guns instead of tasers.&nbsp;None of them were even prosecuted.&nbsp;This is Keith Ellison. This is \u2014 I hate to use the term \u2014&nbsp;this is a racist prosecution against a white woman which never would have occurred if&nbsp;not for the racial climate of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He added, \u201cIf the mob had its way, [Potter] be indicted for murder,\u201d he said. \u201cThey wanted to indict her for murder. She did not commit a crime, period. I taught criminal law for 50 years. I know what is a crime and what isn\u2019t a crime. It is not a crime to make an honest mistake, and the government admits she made a mistake. They don\u2019t claim that she purposely pulled out her gun and shot and killed him deliberately. They claim she made a mistake. They claim she was reckless, she\u2019s negligent, etcetera. That\u2019s just not a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cIf this jury were to convict, I think it would be reversed on appeal and I would be happy to participate in any appeal of this.&nbsp;This is an outrage. She never ever should have been charged. She never should have been dismissed from the police department. She should have been given a training program and to make sure you can recognize the right gun, but anybody who saw her testify understands this is a good and decent woman \u2014 not a criminal \u2014 who made a mistake, and if not for the racial climate of the day, she would never ever have been prosecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The political prosecution of Potter based on her race and the race of Wright resembles jurisprudential corruption seen in totalitarian states, Dershowitz stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is Cuba,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is Iran. This is China. This is not the United States of America. This is a completely politicized prosecution in which the mob determined what would happen, and the mob has a very good representative, Keith Ellison. He\u2019s a thug. He\u2019ll do whatever the mob says. Here\u2019s a guy who was a follower of Farrakhan, so of course, he\u2019s going do whatever the mob says.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div readability=\"6\">\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<p><em>Breitbart News Sunday broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz described the charging of former police officer Kim Potter with first-degree manslaughter in the killing of Daunte Wright by Minnesota Attorney General Keith &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}