“When the cops chasing Freddie Gray caught up with him, they had a problem: He had not done anything illegal. They solved that problem the way cops often do: They plucked a charge out of thin air.”
Police in disguise were interviewed and stated that two cops saw him had over ‘drugs’ and take money.
“Rice, Nero and Miller arrested Gray for carrying a switchblade, which Maryland defines”
He was arrested by Baltimore City cops under Baltimore statues. The Maryland definition is irrelevant.
Is Mr. Sullum brain damaged, in an underground bunker or WHAT? Does he listen to the news? By now most people know that the knife was illegal. One of the cops attorneys is asking to see the knife that has already been deemed illegal by the task force. According to this attorney, the knife is also illegal under Maryland statute and that’s what I’m reading as well.
So if the charge of an illegal knife was valid, under Baltimore law, then won’t Mosby be guilty of the same false arrest charge?
Then I assume that money got booked as evidence. Oh wait. They didn't book him, did they? They killed him first.