arresting freddie gray because the probable cause was resting on the idea that he had a switch blade. they found out that he did not have a switch blade and so that meant to the prosecutor there was no probable cause to arrest him and that meant arresting him and holding him was false im privilegement. right. that is the indicator to me in these charges that this prosecutor really threw the book at them. yeah. and this has been a xlamt clear across this country when we had these cases involving police officers. that we haven t been treating them like average citizens when it comes to clear violations of the law marilyn mosby has decided to do just what citizens across this country have been asking for for quite a while. now, when it comes to this particular charge of false
experience, but she s certainly she s certainly learning quickly, isn t she? she has brought a very, very aggressive set of clarnlgs. i don t know if she s going to be able to prove everything she s alleged, but she certainly has bitten off a lot. quasi, you worked with her or met with her and advised her while she was running. you ve met a lot of young politicians who want to get started and want to take on a run for office. this was her first run for office, wasn t it? that s right. she, by the way, also served in the state s attorney office for a couple of years before deciding that she wanted, in fact, to bring a different sense of activism and of fairness to the office. and so i believe in marilyn mosby. i can tell you up front her story of coming through three generations of police officers, the fact that she knows it from the victim s perspective watching and seeing her own
okay. we don t have his audio. so there s been a couple of arrests down there at city hall that we had on video as they were happening, but it s all under control there now. the big news of the day, of course, was the announcement by the state opens attorney marilyn mos mosby. marilyn mosby has been accused of conflict of interest in the death of freddie gray since she began her investigation. up until today, she was accused of being too close to police, especially when she was growing up in boston with both of her parents serving as boston police officers. her grandfather was a boston police officer. along with several of her aunts and uncles. now she s being accused of conflict of interest because she took a campaign donation from one of freddie gray s lawyers in her campaign for state s attorney.
imprisonment, these police officers know. they had been trained to know what probable cause is to justify a legal arrest. they had a reasonable idea to pursue mr. gray and to stop to further an investigation. but then when they discovered the knife on him, they should have known that it wasn t an illegal knife. they should have known that it wasn t a switch blade as it was earlier reported by the fraternal order of police attorney. they should have known that it wasn t a spring loaded knife and that it was legal according to maryland law. but they decided to arrest him and to take him into custody anyway and that s the reason for the charges. i mean, that s probable cause for her charging them, marilyn mosby charging them with that particular charge of false im
one of the other contributors to mosby s campaign was the fraternal order of the police. the fop. the police union who is now defending the officers she has accused. as far as the conflicts of interest are concerned, you know, when i ran for this position, a lot of people said that it could not be done. i had over 700 donors who believed it could be done, including the fop who donated to my campaign. so if there s a conflict of interest because the gray s family attorney donated to my campaign, i would think there would be a conflict of interest in the fop who also donated to my campaign. marilyn mosby faces another accusation of conflict of interest today that prosecuting the interest is helpful to her husband s political career as a city councillor who represents the district where freddie gray