Touchy Details: In televised Brooklyn DA Debate, Ama Dwimoh faces past issues
A tense back-and-forth during a debate among the six candidates for district attorney in Brooklyn delivered an inadvertent bombshell when Ama Dwimoh’s reason for leaving the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office in 2010 was called into question.
During campaign speeches and public forums, Dwimoh has maintained that she left the District Attorney’s Office because she did not agree with the direction it was headed under then-DA Charles “Joe” Hynes. On Tuesday night, she questioned why Eric Gonzalez refused to do the same and that’s when trouble started.
“I left the office because I disagreed with the way Joe Hynes was handling cases and things that were going on,” Dwimoh said during a debate hosted by NY1. “Trust wasn’t a priority. You stayed and continued.”