So as the Baltimore State's Attorney where doe it say she is also electing herself to be a community activist??
Baltimore City state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby issued a call to action for young people, urging them to take advantage of the spotlight provided by the Freddie Gray case to form a “movement” to reform the criminal justice system.
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“As young people, we need to utilize this moment and make it into a movement, to address some of the structural, socioeconomic, and systemic issues that plague our communities all across the country, not just in Baltimore,” Mosby told Cosmopolitan magazine in an interview published on Tuesday.
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Mosby’s clarion call comes on the same day her case against the six Baltimore cops charged in the case suffered an apparent blow. The medical examiner who performed the autopsy on the 25-year-old Gray ruled that the injuries he sustained while in the back of a police van following his April 12 arrest met the legal and medical definition of an accident. While Gray’s April 19 death was ruled a homicide, the autopsy casts further doubt on the charges leveled against the cops. (RELATED: Autopsy: Freddie Gray Likely Got To His Own Feet Before Suffering Head Injury In Baltimore Police Van Ride)
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The autopsy, which was leaked to The Baltimore Sun by unknown sources, also found that Gray had opiates and cannabis in his system when he was taken to the hospital following his arrest.
Mosby’s call for a new “movement,” despite the case against the officers being far from settled, highlights just how polarizing of a figure the 35-year-old rookie prosecutor has become.
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Mosby became a national hero to some when she announced charges against the officers. “To the people of Baltimore and the demonstrators across America, I heard your call for ‘No justice, no peace,'” she said during a May 1 press conference to announce those charges.
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But others have slammed Mosby, saying that her rhetoric showed she was biased against the cops, that she had overcharged them and that she was making extrajudicial statements that could taint the jury pool.
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Mosby’s call for a movement is not the first time she’s used such fiery language.
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