[dfwgator]

What’s funny is you have a State Attorney, who is working for a Republican Governor, going after a Police Department run by Democrats.

[BeauBo]

“What’s funny is you have a State Attorney, who is working for a Republican Governor, going after a Police Department run by Democrats.”

She is called the State Attorney of the City of Baltimore. She is a Baltimore official who issued the charges against the police officers. The word “State” there is used to mean “Government”.

[Abby4116]

Substitute the words "District Attorney" for "State's Attorney" and it makes sense that she is a Democrat (elected by the voters in the City of Baltimore) and the Governor (elected by the voters in the entire state of Maryland) is a Republican.

In many places the county (or city in this case) has a District Attorney but in Maryland it is called a State's Attorney.