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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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Hannah Fry and Richard Winton

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer defends repeating N-word when quoting hate speech

Todd Spitzer Orange County Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer is facing increasing scrutiny after a video of him saying the N-word while describing two racist incidents surfaced this week.

Spitzer repeated the slur during a speech he delivered to the Iranian American Bar Association in November 2019, outlining the rise in hate crimes in Orange County and describing several cases his office had recently prosecuted. The presentation was recorded and posted to YouTube.

As Spitzer described a hate crime that occurred in Fullerton in 2018, he quoted the epithets that a man he described as a white supremacist hurled at a Black woman.

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