District Attorney David McDade has handed out some 35 copies of a video of teenagers having sex at a party.
McDade says Georgia’s open-records law leaves him no choice but to release the footage because it was evidence in one of the state’s most turbulent cases — that of Genarlow Wilson, a young man serving 10 years in prison for having oral sex with a girl when they were teenagers.
McDade’s actions have opened him up to accusations that he is vindictively misusing his authority to keep Wilson behind bars — and worse, distributing child pornography.
“This has been a ferocious, vindictive prosecution of Genarlow Wilson,” said state Sen. Vincent Fort, an Atlanta Democrat. “What is going on is a vendetta.”
McDade, who is district attorney in Douglas County, in suburban Atlanta, did not immediately return calls Thursday.
He has said that while the law required him to release the video, he also believes the footage helps his case — by showing that Wilson is not the squeaky-clean football star and honor student portrayed by his supporters.
“Most of those who do not want people to see the tape know that it’s damning to their position,” McDade told The Associated Press.
He released the video after receiving an open records request from the AP, and said he has given it to about three dozen people, including reporters, lawmakers and several members of the public who requested it.
He RELEASED THE TAPE.
If this had been about the ' victim', then WHY DIDN'T HE OBSCURE THE FACES OF THE YOUNG, UNDERAGED GIRLS ON THE TAPE?
That's right. It wasn't about the victims.
It was about this RACIST SOB, and yes, I do not hesitate in calling him a racist, bound and determined to keep Genarlow Wilson in jail.
He does NOT give a rat's ass about this young woman. He doesn't care AT ALL.
If he did, he would have at least obscured her face and the faces of the other young, UNDERAGED girls on the tape.
But, he didn't care about them. They were only the pawns he used to try and get those young Black Men IN JAIL.
He could care less about 'protecting' them.
Yes, I'm going to ask...if this were a bunch of UNDERAGED WHITE girls on this tape...would he have released it without obscuring their faces?
HELL NO
McDade needs to be brought up on Child Pornography charges.
PERIOD.
No ifs, ands or buts.
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Where is the National Organization of Women on this fool's actions?
Are the parents of the girls going to sue?
Can they?
Speechless.
This seems to be an obvious misuse of authority.
He mentions an open records law... but that shouldn't trump protecting the privacy of juveniles, especially the so-called victim in a rape case. It is also strange that this is being released because it is evidence in an ongoing case which has not been settled.
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