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Ortiz is 'terribly upset'

1 points by petegrif ↗ HN
If it is to believed: ‎"Ortiz last week expressed sympathy for Swartz’s family but said she was “terribly upset” they’re blaming her office."

In a context in which the key issue is judgement and proportionality could there be a more glaring example of insensitivity? How could she possibly imagine it is appropriate to emphasize how 'terribly upset' she is that her office has been blamed when the context is someone has taken his own life? Truly extraordinary and if true, sadly revealing.

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Ortiz has been told, by other people, for her entire career, that strong and disproportionate tactics are good. Most of her career advancement has been on big cases where she threw the book and the kitchen sink at whatever bad guy she had in her sights. After years of being rewarded for this, being brought up short by people claiming she was prosecuting too hard must be quite an eye-opener.