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Seattle Prosecutor, James Konat Resigns For Making ‘Bigoted’ Remarks, But Were They True?
Senior deputy King County prosecutor James Konat, who went on leave last summer after having his hands slapped by the Supreme Court for using racially charged language during a murder trial in 2007.
In June, the Supreme Court affirmed that Konat had indeed engaged in “prosecutorial misconducts” during his line of questioning of black witnesses during a 2007 murder trial.
During his line of questioning black witnesses, Konat had often referred to the police as the “PO-lees”. In the course of the trial, Konat questioned the black witnesses about a “code” that existed in predominately black neighborhoods that kept potential witnesses from talking to police during the original investigation of then murder suspect Kevin L. Monday Jr. who was subsequently convicted of first-degree murder and first-degree assault. Monday was subsequently sentenced to 64 years in prison.
During his closing arguments, Konat said that despite the denial of such a code by witnesses, Konat said that “the code is that black folk don’t testify against black folk. You don’t snitch to the police.”
The Supreme Court found Konat’s remarks unacceptable and a complaint has been filed with the bar association. But was Konat truly wrong in his statements?
In 2004, a very public campaign was launched in urban neighborhoods known as the ”Stop Snitchin” campaign. The 
campaign was complete with t-shirts, bumper stickers and signs with slogas such as “snitches get stitches”, “snitches sleep in ditches”, “snitches are bitches who get stitches and end up in ditches” and “snitches get stiches and end up in ditches”.
The campaign was no secret; it received coverage in such publications as (USA Today) and other mainstream media. So, I am forced to ask, was Konar really so out of line that he deserves to be sanctioned by the Supreme Court and a hearing in front of the bar association or was he simply pointing out something that most people knew anyway?
If what is quoted here is the sum total of his “racist” remarks, he should not be sanctioned. He simply told the truth!
Kat, I tend to agree with you, (click here to read source article), I cross referenced a few articles to see if I found anything more or different that what is quoted in this post and this seems to be the worst of it. I am not sure about the uproar, the “Stop Snitchin” movement was huge, that had better PR than a lot of things much more worthy. I, too, do not think that he said anything inappropriate or worth being sanctioned for.