All charges dropped in Freddie Gray case; no convictions

[Valin]

Fox News:

July 27 2016

 

Prosecutors dropped the remaining charges Wednesday against three Baltimore police officers awaiting trial in the death of Freddie Gray, ending the case without any convictions.

 

Gray was a 25-year-old black man whose neck was broken while he was handcuffed and shackled but left unrestrained in the back of a police van in April 2015. His death added fuel to the growing Black Lives Matter movement, set off massive protests in the city and led to the worst riots the city had seen in decades.

 

The day started with a pretrial hearing for Officer Garrett Miller -- who had faced assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment charges. But instead of pretrial motions, Chief Deputy State's Attorney Michael Schatzow told the judge that prosecutors were dropping the charges against Miller and the rest of the officers.

 

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[Draggingtree]

7/27/2016

Police Prosecutions in Freddie Gray Death Come to a Merciful End

Filed under: General — JVW @ 10:17 am

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Faced with their dismal record in court thus far, the Baltimore’s State Attorney’s Office has dropped all charges against the last three officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. Trials of the four officers that had previous taken place ended in one mistrial and three acquittals.

 

Beleaguered State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby played the feminine card at a news conference earlier today, telling reporters that “as a mother” http://patterico.com/2016/07/27/police-prosecutions-in-freddie-gray-death-come-to-a-merciful-end/

[Valin]

 

7/27/2016

Police Prosecutions in Freddie Gray Death Come to a Merciful End

Filed under: General — JVW @ 10:17 am

[guest post by JVW]

 

Faced with their dismal record in court thus far, the Baltimore’s State Attorney’s Office has dropped all charges against the last three officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. Trials of the four officers that had previous taken place ended in one mistrial and three acquittals.

 

Beleaguered State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby played the feminine card at a news conference earlier today, telling reporters that “as a mother” http://patterico.com/2016/07/27/police-prosecutions-in-freddie-gray-death-come-to-a-merciful-end/

 

 

 

Well that's a couple of million down the toilet.

[Valin]

Mosby’s Meltdown
Steven Hayward
July 27, 2016

I thought it unnecessary to add to Paul’s analysis below of the dismissal of the remaining charges in the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore, but then I watched Baltimore DA Marilyn Mosby’s press conference announcing the decision. You have to see it, not to believe it.

 

She attacks the police. She attacks the judge. She says her case against the officers is solid, but is dismissing it anyway because the (black) judge is biased. And more. Then she closes by saying she won’t take any questions because of the civil litigation she faces for bringing the case. I can’t believe anything she might be asked could possibly make her situation worse than this completely unprofessional rant.

 

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Mosby’s Meltdown

Steven Hayward

July 27, 2016

 

I thought it unnecessary to add to Paul’s analysis below of the dismissal of the remaining charges in the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore, but then I watched Baltimore DA Marilyn Mosby’s press conference announcing the decision. You have to see it, not to believe it.

 

She attacks the police. She attacks the judge. She says her case against the officers is solid, but is dismissing it anyway because the (black) judge is biased. And more. Then she closes by saying she won’t take any questions because of the civil litigation she faces for bringing the case. I can’t believe anything she might be asked could possibly make her situation worse than this completely unprofessional rant.

 

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what a fool

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Hey Mosby, congratulations, you’re a laughingstock

Posted by William A. Jacobson July 27, 2016

You sought quiet instead of justice, and in doing so disgraced your office and yourself.

[Valin]

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RACIST!!!

[Valin]

 

Baltimore prosecutor who botched Freddie Gray trials still thinks she won

Jazz Shaw

May 10 2017

 

The professional standing of Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby should, in any rational world, be in tatters. Her history of working with former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake during the Freddie Gray riots and her subsequent, disastrous attempts to prosecute their own police force left her with more egg on her face than a character in a Charlie Chaplin film. But for some reason she wound up speaking at Jessie Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago this weekend and to hear her version of events she was single-handedly responsible for saving the city and causing the “reforms” to the police force which must surely be at the root of all their problems. Some of the quotes from her remarks, as reported at Western Journalism, are enough to make one question her grip on reality. (Emphasis added)

 

"In a speech before Rev. Jessie Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago on Saturday, Mosby said, “Had I not been in that position as state’s attorney, had I not had a seat at the table to make the unprecedented decisions that I was forced to make, had there been no accountability, there’d be no exposure, there’d be no reform, and the systemic discriminatory police practices in one of the largest police departments would’ve persisted.”

The state attorney, who is up for re-election next year if she chooses to run, said the exposure she brought to the Baltimore Police Department helped usher reforms such as body cameras for the officers, as well as additional training on how to treat suspects once they are taken in custody."

 

You can listen to the choice excerpts from her comments at the Baltimore Sun, but it doesn’t make her sound any more rational even in context. As WJ goes on to point out, discussions of police body cameras and other performance monitoring tools were already underway in Baltimore years before the Freddie Gray incident. And questions of rooting out bad actors among the police or improving community relations have been ongoing for decades. (Just watch the HBO series The Wire to get a sense of that history.) For Mosby to try to take credit for all of that is an insult to all those in law enforcement and concerned community leaders who have been leading those discussions since she was in grade school.

Also, her claims about being “forced to make decisions” regarding her ill fated attempts to prosecute the city’s own law enforcement officers sound delusional. Not only was she not “forced” to do that, she was widely cautioned against it, both from within municipal offices and in the editorial pages of many publications.......(Snip)

 

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Being on the left means never having to say you're sorry......or wrong.

 

 

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1 minute ago, Valin said:

 

Baltimore prosecutor who botched Freddie Gray trials still thinks she won

Jazz Shaw

May 10 2017

 

The professional standing of Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby should, in any rational world, be in tatters. Her history of working with former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake during the Freddie Gray riots and her subsequent, disastrous attempts to prosecute their own police force left her with more egg on her face than a character in a Charlie Chaplin film. But for some reason she wound up speaking at Jessie Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago this weekend and to hear her version of events she was single-handedly responsible for saving the city and causing the “reforms” to the police force which must surely be at the root of all their problems. Some of the quotes from her remarks, as reported at Western Journalism, are enough to make one question her grip on reality. (Emphasis added)

 

"In a speech before Rev. Jessie Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago on Saturday, Mosby said, “Had I not been in that position as state’s attorney, had I not had a seat at the table to make the unprecedented decisions that I was forced to make, had there been no accountability, there’d be no exposure, there’d be no reform, and the systemic discriminatory police practices in one of the largest police departments would’ve persisted.”

The state attorney, who is up for re-election next year if she chooses to run, said the exposure she brought to the Baltimore Police Department helped usher reforms such as body cameras for the officers, as well as additional training on how to treat suspects once they are taken in custody."

 

You can listen to the choice excerpts from her comments at the Baltimore Sun, but it doesn’t make her sound any more rational even in context. As WJ goes on to point out, discussions of police body cameras and other performance monitoring tools were already underway in Baltimore years before the Freddie Gray incident. And questions of rooting out bad actors among the police or improving community relations have been ongoing for decades. (Just watch the HBO series The Wire to get a sense of that history.) For Mosby to try to take credit for all of that is an insult to all those in law enforcement and concerned community leaders who have been leading those discussions since she was in grade school.

Also, her claims about being “forced to make decisions” regarding her ill fated attempts to prosecute the city’s own law enforcement officers sound delusional. Not only was she not “forced” to do that, she was widely cautioned against it, both from within municipal offices and in the editorial pages of many publications.......(Snip)

 

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Being on the left means never having to say you're sorry......or wrong.

 

 

what kind of fool's think she won anything