Bill Cosby’s Lawyers Play Race Card as Comedian Heads Back to Court

[...] they weren’t afraid to drag race into their argument, saying that Allred’s “campaign” against Cosby “builds on racial bias and prejudice that can pollute the court of public opinion.”

“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,” the statement began.

“Yet, over the last fourteen 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 attorneys continued.

Allred has been a consistent thorn in Cosby’s side, most recently holding a news conference on Tuesday with a Cosby accuser to urge California Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a bill that would eliminate the statute of limitations for rape and sexual assault in the state.

[...] in Tuesday’s statement, Cosby’s lawyers accused Allred of grandstanding to the detriment of Cosby’s civil rights.

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, the attorneys said.

[...] 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.