Breitbart:
CLAIM: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) “blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.”
VERDICT: MOSTLY TRUE.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) accused fellow Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris of being a cruel prosecutor, putting “over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations” and then laughing about having smoked marijuana herself.
Gabbard then added: “She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.”
That is largely true, as the Sacramento Bee noted (original links):
In February, California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered new DNA testing in the 1983 murder case of Kevin Cooper. Cooper came within hours of execution in 2004 after being charged with the murders of an adult couple and two children. Harris opposed the testing when she was the state’s attorney general.
She has since said she supports DNA testing and encouraged Newsom to approve Cooper’s clemency request. She did not offer specifics on why she did not approve the testing during her tenure.
In response to a request for comment, Harris’s campaign pointed to a past statement where the senator called a New York Times columnist last year, telling him, “I feel awful about this.”
Harris later reversed her position and supported the DNA testing, the San Francisco Chronicle noted at the time.
The inmate, Kevin Cooper, has not been freed, as the DNA testing is still continuing and it is not yet clear whether he is innocent, though many believe him to be.
The Bee also noted that another claim against Harris — this time, by former vice president Joe Biden — more
Well, hopefully she’ll be charged with something and another Dem DA can return the favor.
Ambitious prosecutors, such as Harris, see a conviction as a resume enhancer. Harris will step over this man’s dead body on her way up the political ladder, Justice be damned!
MJA, she is a Democrat. It will be a cold day in hell before she gets charged with anything.
Kamala’s many chickens are to be found roosting up her cavernous hoohah. Believe that.
please ‘fact check’ her anchor baby status.
She is an anchor baby. Neither of her parents were US citizens at the time of her birth. She was raised in Canada, from age 7 until after High School, by her mother, for whom there is no evidence of her ever becoming a naturalized US citizen. Her father, after divorcing her mother and remaining in the US, did eventually become a US citizen. harris may have also received dual citizenships, due to her parents nationalities at the time of her birth (India, Jamaica). If so, there is no evidence of her ever renouncing that status.
She is not eligible for the office of the Presidency.
Kamala Harris is a POS, but Kevin Cooper is guilty as hell and he needs to be sent to hell via lethal injection.
***SMACK*** Standing in the way of evidence that would prove a man’s innocence is bad. Blocking evidence that would prove a man innocent while he was on death row is worse. Having that come out in a debate- priceless.