It’s not reverse racism. It’s just racism.
NEW YORK, NY – Retired Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Frank Barbaro wants Donald Kagan freed because he convicted him due to his own racist tendencies. Barbaro convicted Kagan after the shooting of Wavell Wint in 1998 and now says he never even considered self defense as a justification.
“Mr. Kagan had no intent to kill that man . . . I believe now that I was seeing this young white fellow as a bigot, as someone who assassinated an African-American,” Barbaro told Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice ShawnDya Simpson.
The NY Post reported that Barbaro contacted Kagan’s attorneys because his guilty conscience demanded that he reveal the truth about sending Kagan to prison.
“I never took it out of my mind. I started reading in the papers that lots of defendants were sent to death or life in prison but were subsequently exonerated. Reading those stories began to affect me,” Barbaro said.
“I was prejudiced during the trial. I realized I made a terrible mistake and there was a man in jail because of my mistake.”
Barbaro stated that his work during the civil-rights movement is what made him a racist. “The question of discrimination against African-American people became part of my fiber — my very fiber,” he told Simpson.
A motion has been filed to overturn Kagan’s conviction and Justice Simpson will decide whether to acquit, offer a retrial or a plea deal for time served.
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