{"id":181334,"date":"2016-07-27T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/27\/and-no-one-goes-to-jail-for-killing-freddie-gray\/"},"modified":"2016-07-27T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T01:05:00","slug":"and-no-one-goes-to-jail-for-killing-freddie-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/27\/and-no-one-goes-to-jail-for-killing-freddie-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"And No One Goes to Jail for Killing Freddie Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dQoRXO7cZLY?rel=0\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>I am so voting for Marilyn Mosby next time she runs<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Following repeated setbacks in court, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/baltimore-prosecutors-drop-all-remaining-charges-in-freddie-gray-case\/2016\/07\/27\/b5c10f34-b655-4d40-87e6-80827e2f0e2d_story.html\">Baltimore State&#8217;s Attorney Marilyn Mosby dropped charges against the remaining Freddie Gray defendants<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The criminal case in the death of Freddie Gray has ended with the top prosecutor failing to convict any of the six police officers involved in the arrest last year that sparked riots in the city and fueled nationwide debate over fatal police encounters involving black men.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Facing a judge who repeatedly said there was insufficient evidence in the cases, the Baltimore state\u2019s attorney, Marilyn Mosby, on Wednesday dropped criminal charges against three officers still awaiting trial. A judge found three other officers not guilty after separate trials in May, June and July.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">After a brief court hearing, Mosby spoke in the West Baltimore neighborhood where Gray had been arrested and described her decision to drop the charges as \u201cagonizing.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The prosecutor conceded that Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry G. Williams \u201cdoes not agree\u201d with the state\u2019s argument that officers committed crimes by failing to buckle Gray in the back of a police van in which he later fell and broke his neck. If the government continued with more trials, she said, prosecutors faced a \u201cdismal likelihood of conviction.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the way out, she explicitly accused elements of the Baltimore PD of conspiring to sabotage the investigation, which they clearly did:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mosby also accused police of undermining \u2014 and in some cases impeding \u2014 the investigation by refusing to serve search warrants against fellow officers and making up memos to impugn key witnesses. The city\u2019s police commissioner issued a statement defending the integrity of the investigation, saying 30 seasoned detectives \u201cworked the case tirelessly to uncover facts.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Attorneys and other advocates for the officers have defended the pursuit of Gray, a frequent target of arrests who ran from a high-crime area when he saw an officer.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the lessons here is that you cannot allow a police department to investigate its own members \u2026\u2026\u2026 ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so voting for Marilyn Mosby next time she runs Following repeated setbacks in court, Baltimore State&#8217;s Attorney Marilyn Mosby dropped charges against the remaining Freddie Gray defendants: The criminal case in the death of Freddie Gray has ended with the top prosecutor failing to convict any of the six police officers involved in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,1041,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}