Justice
All Charges Dropped in Freddie Gray Trials, but Justice Is Indicted
It’s not possible to say that Gray found justice. But Baltimore would be worse off had the state not even sought any.
Visibly quaking with rage, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced this morning her decision to drop the remaining cases against three Baltimore Police Department officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray.
She spoke hotly. Mosby condemned members of the Baltimore police force for impeding her investigation. She spoke not just as a prosecutor but as a black woman and a mother. Mosby defended her cases, her office, herself. “I was elected the prosecutor,” she told reporters gathered at a press conference. “I signed up for this, and I can take it.”