A great example of how DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) is being used to circumvent logic in CO
During the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, I watched a feed that had several lawyers commenting during the trial, and one of the lawyers that commented frequently was Attorney Andrew F. Branca. Occasionally, some of those lawyer's youtube videos show up in my suggestions and I'll sometimes watch them. For whatever reason I ended up watching a video of Attorney Branca's last week where he described an amazing interaction with a public defender's office that just floored me. Today, he posted a more concise recounting of the interaction, and I find it fascinating how logic and common sense are being sacrificed on the alter of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. It's worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCa1M334fnI
I had no idea until this video that Attorney Barnca is down here in Castle Rock, and he is speaking about the Colorado Public Defender's Office.
Here is a TL;DW summary:
Private practice attorney consults with Colorado Public Defender's office pro-bono to successfully defend an indigent man faced with a murder charge via a self-defense claim.
He is praised by lead counsel and his testimony is cited as critical to the Not Guilt decision by the jury.
As a result of that outcome, he is invited to speak at a training conference for the Colorado Public Defender's office, which he happily does for free.
On conference day, he arrives early at the conference room to confirm A/V setup will work as expected, because he is the first speaker on the agenda. Does sound check with a couple of A/V techs who were already there and working in the room, waits for conference to start. Notices but pays little attention to small group doing yoga in a corner of the large conference room.
Does presentation and Q&A at conference, is applauded and thanked, gets t-shirt for all his work.
A few weeks later, gets a letter from the Lead Training Director of the Colorado Public Defenders office. "Ah, they must be thanking me for my training efforts and successfully defending one of their indigent clients".
Instead, the letter accuses him of turning a sanctuary space for the group of yoga women into a "toxic and harmful space" and caused "gendered racist Micro-aggressions" because he had the audacity to do a sound check while they did downward dog poses.
Further, she accuses him of hateful and racist rhetoric during his presentation because he included names of suspects for citation purposes in example slides of fake guns next to real guns.
He is instructed to return or destroy the t-shirt, to not use the Public Defender's office of Colorado as a reference going forward, and barred from consulting on any future cases for the office. Plus, his recorded presentation is redacted from the conference and destroyed.
And of course, a public state employee signs the letter with "Pushing for progress" above her signature.
So let me get this straight... here is an expert in the field doing pro-bono work to help indigent murder suspects, plus offering free training to the Public Defender's office to further their knowledge on self defense issues, and because he doesn't have the right "group-think" our state employees are going to ban him from any future work defending those who can't afford to defend themselves?
Link to his blog with a copy of the letter: https://lawofselfdefense.com/co-publ...-letter-to-me/
How is this not on every local news station? Oh, nevermind, not the correct group-think.
