Remember the Baltimore Six, Mosby Will

April 12, 2015. Remember the looting and rioting in Baltimore and the six sacrificial cops that were prosecuted for the death of Freddie Gray? Three of the officers were exonerated after trial and the rest had all charges dropped. But that didn't end the nightmare that Baltimore City Prosecutor Mosby started. Not by a long shot. But now it's her nightmare.

Baltimore Police LEGALLY BRUTALIZE Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby

The Baltimore Six exonerated. However, things didn’t go so well for Marilyn Mosby. For her, the public humiliation continues in the courts.

The race-baiting attorney general became famous for prosecuting six police officers for the alleged manslaughter of drug-dealer Freddie Gray. She received a metaphorical beatdown of Rodney King proportions.

When Freddie Gray died in Baltimore two years ago, the city’s chief prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby went on an anti-cop rampage. Within two weeks of the purported crime and without grand jury indictments, Mosby charged the six officers involved in Gray’s arrest. In her stunning over-reach, she charged some of the officers with murder.

The cops filed lawsuits against Mosby, the Sheriff and City of Baltimore. A judge just ruled that the lawsuits can continue and that Mosby must surrender all her emails and be deposed under oath.

This gonna be good. I hope the cop's attorney's rip her apart.

Story here.

Personal Agenda v. Rule Of Law

These are difficult times we live in. Personally, I believe that we are experiencing what Noah felt just before the Flood, that men are doing whatever they want, people do what is right in their own eyes and completely disregard the rule of law.

That's what happened in Baltimore.

Whether it was politics of public pressure, we may never know for sure what led State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby to file charges against six innocent police officers in response to the death of Freddie Gray. For whatever her reasoning was, leaked text messages now show that those charges were going to be filed, regardless of the outcome of the investigation.

This is going to cost the taxpayers of Baltimore a huge chunk of cash. Not only will the cops sue, but the police union spent hundreds of thousands defending the six cops. The union had to raise its dues in order to meet those expenses. In addition, the cops have dialed down their aggressive anti-crime actions; Baltimore now has a homicide rate that is spiraling out of control.

The inner city residents got exactly what they want and now they don't want it..

The malicious prosecution of the six officers withstood the scrutiny of the Grand Jury. The Grand Jury upheld the charges but they were not provided with all of the factual information on the case. The lead investigator on the case, Detective Dawnyell Taylor, says she was pressured by the prosecutor to provide information from a 4-page typed narrative, which appeared to be intentionally misleading. In an article published in June by The Baltimore Sun, Taylor was quoted as saying, “As I read over the narrative it had several things that I found to be inconsistent with our investigation.” She went on to say that she was handed the pre-printed narrative just prior to testifying at the grand jury.

It is unethical for the prosecution to provide a statement to a witness in a criminal trial, and many cases have been dropped for far less.

Charges Dropped, Cops Still Sue

From NBC News:

Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby may have dropped criminal charges against the remaining officers in the Freddie Gray trial, but she remains entrenched in a legal battle in civil court.

Five of the six officers charged for the death of Gray are suing Mosby, as well as Maj. Samuel Cogen of the Baltimore Sheriff's Office, in civil court for a gamut of causes.

In several lawsuits filed earlier this year, Officers William Porter, Edward Nero, Garrett Miller, Lt. Brian Rice, and Sgt. Alicia White alleged defamation, false arrest, false imprisonment, and violation of constitutional rights, among others.

This reminds me of the Duke lacrosse players who sued the university and the district attorney, Mike Nifong, for that screwed up rape case. I hope Ms. Mosby suffers the same fate.

Go get 'em guys.

Guess They're Not Batty Over Batts No More

There isn't much to this news announcement; Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts has been given his walking papers.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired Police Commissioner Anthony Batts, the mayor's office said on Wednesday.

Batts will be replaced on an interim basis by Deputy Commissioner Kevin Davis, the mayor's office said in a statement.

Batts had headed the department during unrest triggered by the death of Freddie Gray, who died in April from an injury sustained in police custody.

Batts isn't the only one that needs to go. Mayor Rawlings-BrokeBaltimore needs to find other employment where she is unable to get people killed and that incompetent fruit loop State's Attorney who indicted the six cops should be right behind the Mayor polishing up her resume'.

The Baltimore Chief Of Police Goes Mayberry RFD

It is a well established axiom that a man will say and do just about anything in order to keep a good paying job. The Baltimore Chief of Police, whose salary is $190,000, has brought this to a new level.

Right when Baltimore's murder rate is going through the ceiling and the morale of the police is dropping through the basement,  Chief Batts drops this gem:

“Our reform efforts will very likely see more police officers arrested,” Batts wrote. “We will have more officers who are forced out because their outdated, outmoded views of policing do not match the standards the community expects and demands.”

This is my prediction, many of Baltimore's best, brightest and bravest will be looking for other jobs, or they will use defensive policing tactics - the CYA patrol manual - with a vengeance. Baltimore wants a kinder, gentler police department? Stay tuned.

The NYPD proved that aggressive policing is what drops the crime rate, not touchy-feely community relations. The problem may perhaps be the standards of some officers, but the troubled Baltimore minority community has no standards. Sure, the community leaders and do-gooders come out and dance for the cameras, but when they're gone and the police are no where to be found, that's when the real community standards take over. And we've seen what those are in Baltimore and Ferguson.

The Case Against The Baltimore Cops Grows Weaker By The Day

From Western Journalism:

Evidence of apparent incompetence and misbehavior continues to pile up in the case of the “Baltimore Six” — not evidence against the cops involved in the police-custody death of Freddie Gray, but against the state’s attorney prosecuting the case. On the heels of the embarrassing disclosure that Marilyn Mosby filed her motion for a gag order in the wrong court — an attempt to keep defense attorneys from talking to the media that was denied — comes word that it was Mosby herself who directed police to crack down on drug dealing in the very neighborhood where Gray was apprehended.

In other words, Marilyn Mosby’s prior statements that the Baltimore cops who picked up Gray after he ran from them made an unlawful arrest, is contradicted by the fact that it was she who ordered the police crackdown on drug dealing in the high-crime area where the arrest took place.

This moron, no ... this lying sack of crap orders cops to aggressively enforce the law at a certain location and then indicts them for doing just that and then tries to hide it. Someone leaked the emails and departmental memos now she's suddenly camera shy.

And she's still trying to gag the autopsy report so no one will know for sure what killed the idiot in the paddy wagon.

Just last week, Western Journalism reported that State’s Attorney Mosby was discovered trying to keep Freddie Gray’s autopsy report under wraps. The news sparked criticism among those who believe the autopsy could offer evidence contrary to Mosby’s account of events that led to serious charges against the six police officers.

H/T iOTW

The Choice is Clear And Simple

You may have clearly defined and well enforced laws to protect the public, or you may have feel-good, emotionally reactive political correctness.

But if you want pubic safety, you can't have both as the Baltimore Sun points out.

Violence surges as Baltimore police officers feel hesitant

The number of shootings and homicides has surged in Baltimore, some police officers say they feel hesitant on the job under intense public scrutiny and in the wake of criminal charges against six officers in the Freddie Gray case.

State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby's decision last week to charge the officers has stoked strong opinions across the country — including praise from those who want accountability and derision from some legal experts.

But perhaps the most jarring effect has been on the Baltimore Police Department.

"In 29 years, I've gone through some bad times, but I've never seen it this bad," said Lt. Kenneth Butler, president of the Vanguard Justice Society, a group for black Baltimore police officers. Officers "feel as though the state's attorney will hang them out to dry."

Several officers said in interviews they are concerned crime could spike as officers are hesitant to do their jobs, and criminals sense opportunity. Butler, a shift commander in the Southern District, said his officers are expressing reluctance to go after crime.