Six Maryland police officers may indeed have erred in their treatment of Freddie Gray after they arrested him. But so far they are all getting off in large part because State Attorney Marilyn Mosby grossly overcharged them in order to score political points with her fellow Democrats and Black Lives Matter.
When the charges were announced on May 1 of last year noted lawyer Alan Dershowitzdeclared that This is a show trial. Today had nothing to do with justice. Today was crowd control. Everything today was motivated by a threat of riots and a desire to prevent riots."
He rejected the charges. Theres no plausible hypothetical conceivable case for murder under the facts as we now know them" he said. You might say that conceivably theres a case for manslaughter. Plainly nobody wanted this guy to die. Nobody set out to kill him. Nobody intentionally murdered him."
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Six Maryland police officers may indeed have erred in their treatment of Freddie Gray after they arrested him. But so far they are all getting off in large part because State Attorney Marilyn Mosby grossly overcharged them in order to score political points with her fellow Democrats and Black Lives Matter.
When the charges were announced on May 1 of last year noted lawyer Alan Dershowitzdeclared that This is a show trial. Today had nothing to do with justice. Today was crowd control. Everything today was motivated by a threat of riots and a desire to prevent riots."
He rejected the charges. Theres no plausible hypothetical conceivable case for murder under the facts as we now know them" he said. You might say that conceivably theres a case for manslaughter. Plainly nobody wanted this guy to die. Nobody set out to kill him. Nobody intentionally murdered him."
Read the rest of the article at The Stream