Posted on 01/15/2020 12:05:07 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby traveled to St. Louis, Missouri, Tuesday and joined other black, female prosecutors to speak out against a political and law enforcement establishment that she says has attacked her, undermined her work for reform, and sought to push her from office.
Mosby pledged solidarity with St. Louis’ top prosecutor Kim Gardner who filed a federal lawsuit alleging political attacks by her own city leaders and police union.
“The vitriol, the personal and the professional attacks, particularly against black, female prosecutors is unprecedented,” Mosby told the crowd. “The individuals making decisions about who’s going to be charged, what they’re going to be charged with, what sentence recommendations they’re going to make — 95% of those prosecutors in this country are white; 79% are white men. And as women of color, we represent 1% of all elected prosecutors in this country. Our very existence challenges the status quo.”
In her op-ed and appearance Tuesday, Mosby said she has faced opposition to her efforts to bring criminal justice reform to Baltimore. She wrote in the op-ed that the Maryland State’s Attorneys’ Association opposed legislation she backed to to erase old convictions in cases brought by the corrupt Gun Trace Task Force. In St. Louis, she said Gov. Larry Hogan has undermined her by including money in his budget for the attorney general to hire more staff and prosecute crimes in the city.
“My governor has even gone as far as to provide my prosecutorial discretion to the attorney general, which I believe is an outrageous and undemocratic power grab,” she told the crowd.
Mosby has come under fire from the police union ever since she charged six officers in the 2015 death of Freddie Gray. None were convicted.
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A characterless, clueless, pathetic, and entitled person.
Affirmative action once again fails the community. marilyn...strop whining! It is unbecoming.
At first I thought it was a picture of Einstein!!!
She is a POS and has helped Baltimore fall farther down the sewer.
Fixed it.
Incompetence and ...corruption.
Yes. Chicago, Baltimore, Philly, SF, StL, and many other Soros plants.
Complaining could have been her only major path through the wicked White world of ‘normal life’, up to now. So she only knows one way to combat her own shortcomings or failure. Complain.
Complain loudly with force, people will be impressed. Complain about gender bias. Complain about racial bias. Never hint that you think you could possibly have made a mistake. Mistakes are only the White Man’s problem.
Sorry, but thems the cards we’ve been dealt in 2020.
If you’re a crap prosecutor i dont care if you’re run outnof the job.
And i don’t care what gender or color you
are, ifmyou are below par or worse, i have zero sympathy.
I wish they would run out ALL crappy public officials everywhere.
Black women...overall, not impressive.
Drop the attitudes, work responsibly, respect others and speak truth.
And stop fighting at McDonalds!
She is not many. She is one. As one she has defamed her sex, her race, the city of Baltimore, and her profession. Attacks on her are absolutely justified. More, she ought to be charged and tried for false imprisonment.
CardiB would fit right in with that group!
She is the classic sociopath—blame everyone else when you are the jerk in the room.
All about that race, ‘bout that race, ‘bout that race....
I don’t know her that well, but it’s sure hard not to think that about her.
No trouble!
Well, when you are an underqualified affirmative action hire, people call you out on it when you suck at your job.
Thanks for that one, ChiCongo, great.
Is that Crimesha?
The one and only!
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