Spitzer said the implication that he made inappropriate, racially charged comments was simply outrageous
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer allegedly told a group of prosecutors discussing the case of a Black murder defendant that some Black men intentionally date white women to escape “bad circumstances or bad situations,” according to a December memo written by a recently fired prosecutor and obtained by City News Service Wednesday.
But Spitzer “stated that he disagreed and he knows many Black people who get themselves out of their bad circumstances and bad situations by only dating `white women,”‘ according to the document. Spitzer also released a memo he wrote on Jan. 30 saying that defense attorneys representing Buggs had raised the issue of race in their client’s life, and because Spitzer said he wanted to explore the possibility, “cross-racial identification” wasn’t a factor in the accused killer’s motives.
On Jan. 26, 2022, Spitzer issued a memo to all of the prosecutors involved in the October meeting that the Buggs case was being reassigned to a new prosecutor, who would be supervised by Assistant District Attorney Susan Price, who is now running for Long Beach mayor. Everyone else involved in the October Buggs meeting — including Spitzer himself — was to be “walled off from any involvement in the case” going forward, Spitzer wrote in the memo.
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