In one article in BlackPressUSA, E. Faye Williams, the president and chief executive of the National Congress of Black Women, suggested Mr. Cosby was being unfairly judged in a country where President Trump has apologized for saying
that his celebrity put him in a position to grab women in their genital area, a comment he later described as “locker room talk.”
“If the president of the United States can go on working in the White House after he has bragged about doing gross, sexually explicit and abusive things to women, without their permission, then justice requires
that Bill Cosby should not be punished, unless he is convicted of crimes,” Ms. Williams said.
An Effort to Change Cosby ‘Optics’ as Trial Nears –
By GRAHAM BOWLEYAPRIL 26, 2017
Six weeks ahead of Bill Cosby’s trial on sexual assault charges, one of his lawyers, Angela Agrusa, said in an interview released Wednesday
that one focus of her defense will be to change the “optics” for a defendant who she said many people have already decided is guilty of abusing women.
That strategy seemed apparent when one of Mr. Cosby’s daughters released a statement defending her father
and Mr. Cosby himself gave a rare interview for an article that led with a depiction of his blindness.
And Ms. Agrusa in a separate interview made clear that she hoped to change public opinion as part of her defense of Mr. Cosby, who faces charges
that he drugged and assaulted a Temple University staff member in his home north of Philadelphia in 2004.
Mr. Wyatt said that Evin Cosby, the youngest of his children, had decided on her own to come forward with a statement
that was sent to four media outlets — The Hollywood Reporter, BlackPressUSA, CNN and ABC News — that he said Ms. Cosby had selected.