Bill Cosby in a bizarre statement released from jail insists he's exactly like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.
Cosby, who was sentenced to three to 10 years in a maximum security prison after being found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, released a statement through his representative on Wednesday saying he "will never have remorse" for his crimes. The comedian has denied allegations of sexual assault by dozens of women and was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004.
Cosby said that a "low-life district attorney and a corrupt judge needed me guilty" because of their "political aspirations," also claiming that he was locked up because of "my political beliefs, my actions of trying to humanize all races, genders, and religions." Now, Cosby says, he has "a temporary residence that resembles the quarters of some of the greatest political prisoners," including Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela. "I stand upright as a political prisoner and I smile," he concludes. "The truth is strong!"
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This statement comes following an equally strange interview Cosby's spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt, gave to NBC10, in which he said that, "despite the circumstances," Cosby finds prison to be an "amazing experience."
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