LIVE: Marilyn Mosby Indicted! Recalling the Freddie Gray Trials
Marilyn Mosby, the State's Attorney for Baltimore, has reportedly just been indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of perjury on a variety of mortgage and COVID hardship applications. If convicted on these charges Mosby is reportedly looking at as long as 30 years in Federal prison--and Federal prison time is REAL prison time, with little discounting for such things as good behavior.
In April 2015 a Baltimore resident by the name of Freddie Gray was caught up in a Baltimore Police Department sweep of an open-air drug market, and arrested on a charge of unlawful possession of a knife. He was cuffed and placed in a police van. After some travel, the van was opened to find that Gray had suffered a serious neck injury, from which he would ultimately die some days later.
Although the investigation by the Baltimore PD would discover no unlawful conduct by any officer, hours before that investigation was finalized Mosby held an outdoor press conference announcing that six officers--including black and female officers--were being charged with crimes as serious as murder in the death of Gray.
The Baltimore PD investigators were shocked by this announcement, and even more so when Mosby declared that these charges were based on her own independent investigation she'd been running secretly.
Ultimately it would prove that there was zero evidence that any of the charged officers--or anyone else--had used any unlawful force upon Freddie Gray, and particularly not any force whatever to Gray's neck. After several officers were acquitted at trial, Mosby finally agreed to dismiss charges against the remaining officers. An independent Federal investigation by the DOJ also found no grounds for charging the officers. A separate administrative investigation by the Baltimore PD also found no misconduct, and every officer was eligible to return to duty.
So why were these six officers charged with crimes as serious as murder in the absence of any evidence of misconduct to support such charges? Join us for today's live stream to find out!
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