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Marilyn Mosby: A Woman Without Shame
When I learned on Wednesday morning that prosecutors in Baltimore had elected to drop all charges against the remaining defendants in the Freddie Gray case, I felt a great sense of relief for the three police officers who had not yet been acquitted. I phrase it that way intentionally because, after the third acquittal in the case (and a hung jury), it should have been clear to anyone – even State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby – that the state had no chance of convicting any of the officers on even a single charge. In June of last year, I predicted such an outcome here on Ricochet, and I also predicted that the officers would later prevail in a civil case against Mosby. Now that the first element of that scenario has come to pass, in due course we’ll find out about the second.
Given the string of embarrassments suffered by the prosecutors in the case, I expected Mosby to drop the charges while exhibiting some minimal degree of grace and humility. That turns out to have been a foolish expectation; in retrospect I should have known better. Her address to reporters on Wednesday, delivered not at the courthouse but on a street corner in the West Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray was arrested, was as brilliant a display of arrogance, scapegoating, and self-righteousness as one is ever likely to witness. Summed up, the outcome of the Freddie Gray prosecution can be blamed on everyone but her and her loyal band of prosecutors. In Mosby’s view, the police and the judge cooperated in subverting her noble quest for justice on behalf of Freddie Gray, about which she admits no errors and harbors no regrets.
Reading her statement does not come close to capturing her grandiosity. Watch the video and behold a woman without shame.
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She’s making a play for Hillary’s Atty General? Gets some funding from George Soros? Or maybe she’s just a shameless racist thug.
These are not mutually exclusive. #AllOfTheAbove
I vote for shameless racist thug.
This sounded like a high schooler wrote the speech. I did not grasp the overwhelming mediocrity of this woman until now.
Get that woman a seat belt before she hurts herself.
You’re seriously underplaying her arrogance and ignorance, Jack.
Ya think?
She jumped the gun on this prosecution, announcing the prosecution before the reports were even finished. She race-blamed the whole police department, telling the community that she was going to put a stop to the police department’s injustice … but now she whines that she never meant the whole police department, etc.
She’s upset that the accused didn’t cooperate enthusiastically. Who knew?
I think we have just witnessed the visual definition of ‘an Angry Black Women’. If she/them could get this mad at the things that are really hurting the Black Community, they might accomplish something positive.
Mosby is very typical of the attitude of the black community when it comes to getting what they want. In my years of teaching in schools with largely black populations I saw it over and over. When a student was suspended or otherwise disciplined parents and community “leaders” would arrive at the suspension hearing demanding that the teacher who wrote the original referral be disciplined. Evidence, witnesses, nothing mattered. A black child could not be guilty or held responsible for his/her behaviors because the system was racist. I began hearing this nonsense in the 1970s. It only got worse. By the time I retired three years ago black students were frequently left unpunished for a host of infractions which others paid dearly for. The reason being something called disproportionality. Since they made up a smaller percentage of the total school system population they could not represent a greater percentage of those students disciplined annually. Strictly a numbers game by which principals were judged, and by which they determined who got suspended and who didn’t. If anyone thinks that there isn’t an attempt to do the same to the criminal justice system, they are deluding themselves. This is just the beginning.
There had to be an experienced prosecuting attorney in the States Attorney’s Office that knew from the beginning that Ms. Mosby had no chance of winning the cases against the officers. I suspect Ms. Mosby is the type of boss that doesn’t seek or desire any input on her decisions.
The judge that heard the case and acquitted the officers sent a very clear message to the prosecution with each decision he wrote for acquittal. Ms. Mosby is a slow learner. She obviously does not have the experience she needs to act as the States Attorney for Baltimore.
She was accusatory toward the police before the investigation even started and it began the racial divide that we are seeing today. From then to now, look what has happened to the inner city communities, the law enforcement community, violence – what has improved?? Nothing – things are far worse – Baltimore has an even worse crime rate now –
My (probably racist, patriarchal, sexist, misogynistic, white-privileged, hegemonistic) observation of her speaking is she is a real piece of work.
Also a realistic preview of things to come on a national level if Clinton wins.
On other sites, the lefties are LIVID. They can’t understand how those evil, evil officers could get away with something like this.
Now that the officers are suing, the screams are getting even louder. “Not only did they get away with it, they have the gall to SUE that good, honest prosecutor? SHAME!”
…of course, they leave out the part about the witness who was in the van, and heard Freddie banging his head against the wall. He later recanted and claimed he didn’t think that happened that way, but it’s amazing how often witnesses change their inconvenient stories after a prosecutor gets to them.
Now we have two very good examples of how not to prosecute allegations of police misconduct.
In the Michael Brown case, the prosecutor figured out early on that the evidence would not lead to any conviction of Officer Wilson. Instead of simply not prosecuting, he kicked it over to a grand jury because of (obvious) political pressure. The evidence was so compelling for Wilson that the prosecutors acted like defense attorneys during the grand jury hearings. This gave the impression of a rigged system. It takes a Department of Justice report to fully exonerate Wilson.
In this case, the prosecutor publicly condemns the department before the ink dries on the report and zealously prosecutes without any regard for the poor evidence in her case. None of her cases are taken very far without being dismissed, and she blames a rigged system. (Can you imagine facing her without the support of the police union, good lawyers, or public scrutiny?)
Not a great track record for handling delicate cases with the appearance of impartiality.
You never see them together…
In a rational world ruled by logic, this alone would prompt a registered Republican to vote Trump in November.
Yep, I’m down with the shhhhhhhtrugle
We don’t live in such a world, but gut reactions to this woman gets us to the same place. Come to think of it, it’s the progressive who think we live in a materialistic world governed by enlightened reason exercised by the anointed elite, yet consistently demonstrate hate, self love and mob rule capture the wealth that comes with power so they have no trouble finding her insightful and caring.
And people still try to defend affirmative action.
Thanks to the national atmosphere created from the top by Obama and Holder et al, Mosby assumed her actions would be lauded and supported by all. She’s an incompetent embarrassment.
I have to wonder about the morale of the two career prosecutors standing to the side of their elected boss, Ms. Mosby. Almost surely they both fully comprehend the destructive path Mosby decided to pursue, and now they are presented in this shameful spectacle as Mosby’s “proof” that she isn’t utterly incompetent.
Will one of the Rico Lawyers enlighten me? It seems to me that in the real world, a lawyer who takes this many cases and loses them all would get punished by the bosses in her firm.
In the government world, she will get a promotion to higher office.
Is it too much to hope disbarment is in her future?
I have a question for the lawyers too. She says that her office was never consulted about the defendants’ choice to have a bench trial instead of a jury trial. Does the prosecutors’ office get a say in that?
Years ago Redd Foxx made fun on Affirmative Action in his Sandford and Son sitcom. He wouldn’t let a black doctor treat him because he knew how that doctor got into and through med school. The biggest problem with Affirmative Action is that it labels every black person who achieves anthing. I have worked with some tremendously intelligent and talented black teachers and few incredibly stupid, dishonest, and unqualified black administrators. Those teachers knew no matter how hard they worked they would always be painted with the brush used to label those administrators. No one should be given a position for which they are not the best qualified candidate chosen on a level playing field. No one discriminates against minorities in hiring anymore. If anything they go out of their way to find qualified minorities. Affirmative Action is a scam that profits no one but administrators who can prove their commitment to social justice by hiring minority underlings never putting their own positions and salaries at risk.
No – not that I’ve ever heard. I won’t claim expertise for all jurisdictions, but I certainly was of the impression that any criminal defendant can decline a jury trial for a bench trial. To have a jury is a right of a criminal defendant, not a right of the state.