Alex Jones’ attorney defends using racial slur in comedy act

EAST HAVEN — A Connecticut attorney known for representing high-profile defendants is defending his use of racist and homophobic slurs during a stand-up show at a restaurant last month.

Norm Pattis, a 66-year-old lawyer who represents conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and served as an attorney for accused killer Fotis Dulos, was caught on camera insulting Black Lives Matter activists, interracial couples, gay people and transgender individuals at a talent show held at Tolli’s Apizza on March 21.

“So I guess the bottom line, people, is you just can’t say certain words. They’re offlimits. And one of those words is [the N-word],” Pattis said in a nearly eightminute recording that was published online last week by a progressive blogger.

In a blog post on Wednesday, Pattis justified his stand-up routine as an homage to comedian George Carlin. He wrote that the comments were directed at the “new high priests and priestesses of identity politics,” whom he called a social cancer on the body politic.

“The woke elite are much in need of ridicule and comedic takedown; so are the semi-literate half-wits who rally around them,” Pattis wrote in the 847-word post. “So if you are offended by use of the “N” word in that comedic skit consider the possibility that the joke is at your expense.”

Pattis did not respond to a request for comment. Representatives for Tolli’s Apizza were not available for comment Sunday.

In a series of Twitter posts on Saturday, Black Lives Matter 860, a group of Connecticut-based activists, said Pattis should be placed under investigation and that his license to practice law should be suspended due to his remarks.

“Racism and dehumanizing black people is just part of what continues to create attitudes that have judges hand down harsher sentences, create housing policies that hurt black and brown people and lead to higher rates of mortality in the medical field,” the group wrote.