Marilyn Mosby
Marilyn Mosby, the leading prosecutor on the Freddie Gray case, called for youth around the nation to use the Baltimore incident as cause for a “movement” for justice – but she made the plea the same day a leaked autopsy report shows the 25-year-old’s head injuries met the legal definition of an accident.
First, her comments, via a profile and glossy photograph spread of her in Cosmopolitcan magazine: “As young people, we need to utilize this moment and make it into a movement, to address some of the structural, socioeconomic, and systematic issues that plague our communities all across the country, not just in Baltimore.”
Meanwhile, the Baltimore Sun published the findings of a leaked autopsy that same day.
Among the revelations: Gray, whose death brought about homicide and other charges on six police officers, suffered a single “high-energy injury” to his nick and spine, most likely due to the sudden deceleration of the van in which he was riding.
The medical examiner concluded Gray’s death could not be ruled an accident, however, because officers were guilty of “acts of omission,” meaning they did not follow safety procedures. The medical examiner suggested Gray may have been able to rise from his belly – the position in which he was loaded into the van – onto his feet, and was then thrown into a wall during an abrupt stop or change in direction, the Baltimore Sun reported. And because he wasn’t belted, and his wrists and ankles tied, this put him “at risk for an unsupported fall during acceleration or deceleration of the van,” the autopsy reported, according to the newspaper.
The medical examiner subsequently ruled Gray’s death a homicide.
Gray, 25, was arrested in mid-April after fleeing police on foot. He suffered a spinal injury while in the custody of officers and died a week later at a nearby hospital. His death set off massive protests in the city over perceived police brutality.
Mosby took to the podium shortly after the autopsy was completed and announced the stiff charges against the officers, sparking criticism from some who saw her public remarks as biased, activist in tone and premature, as WND previously reported. At the time, she said, the Daily Caller reported: “To the people of Baltimore and the demonstrators across America, I heard your call for ‘No justice, no peace.’”
Of the leaked autopsy, Mosby expressed unhappiness.
“I strongly condemn anyone with access to trial evidence who has leaked information prior to the resolution of this case,” she said, the Baltimore Sun reported.
But to police union president Lt. Gene Ryan, the leaked report underscores the fact the prosecutor shouldn’t have “rush[ed] to a decision” about the officers’ involvement in Gray’s death in the first place.
“Why not wait till all the facts are in before you make a decision? Let’s just sit back and take a breath and let’s see everything unfold,” he said, in the newspaper. “I want to see all the evidence come out because I believe our guys have nothing to hide.”
The six police officers charged in Gray’s death have all pleaded not guilty.
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