It’s been one week since Bill Cosby was convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault and his wife, Camille Cosby, released a lengthy statement Thursday, calling her husbands conviction a “tragedy” and even compared him to Emmett Till.
“In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs,” Camille said. “This is mob justice, not real justice. This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country.”
Last week Cosby’s camp compared him to Emmett Till, and it’s clear his wife of 54 years feels the same way.
“Since when are all accusers truthful? History disproves that,” she wrote. “For example, Emmett Till’s accuser immediately comes to mind. In 1955, she testified before a jury of white men in a Mississippi courtroom that a 14-year-old African-American boy had sexually assaulted her, only to later admit several decades later in 2008 that her testimony was false.”
Emmett was lynched in Mississippi back in 1955 after a white woman said he grabbed her and made threatening comments. She later confessed to a historian that the allegations were alternative facts.
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One of the accusers who attended both of his trials said the Till comparison made her feel sick.
“It just disgusts me. It shows the profundity of Bill Cosby’s depravity,” Lili Bernard told the Daily News on Friday, after a Cosby spokeswoman first made the comparison.
Lili came forward back in 2015 and said Cosby drugged and rapped her back in the early 90s. She said it happened after she got a part on the “The Cosby Show.”
“More than a third of Cosby’s publicly known survivors are black women, and black women’s lives matter too. This is not about race, it is about rape. How dare they sully the memory of Emmett Till, and how dare they parallel our courage to a lynch mob,” she said.
Cosby was convicted last week of sexually assaulting former Temple University staffer Andrea Constand back in 2004 at his Philadelphia mansion.
He is currently out on bail awaiting sentencing.
