As I said in a diary yesterday, I was so impressed with Ms. Mosby's courageous statement yesterday that I suggested she might be the Democratic candidate for President that we will need in coming years. I'm quite serious.
She is, of course, being viciously attacked by all the RW authoritarians and, of course, the Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police, which has no shame or dignity.
This is a compilation, not an extended essay. I just want to record some of the things being said about her today and yesterday. (BTW, I'm much more interested in what people are saying about her than about HRC.)
Incidentally, I've never met Ms. Mosby (yet!) and have no personal connection. But I can see brilliance when it appears!
New York Times:
“It’s been 78 days since Michael Brown was shot in the street by a police officer,” Ms. Mosby said in October at her alma mater, Tuskegee University in Alabama. “It’s been 101 days since Eric Garner was choked to death in New York by a police officer, and 54 days since the New York City medical examiner ruled that incident a homicide. Neither has resulted in an indictment.”
Friday morning, Ms. Mosby made clear that she intends to proceed at a different pace. Her stunning announcement that she would prosecute six officers in the death of Freddie Gray landed her squarely in the national spotlight, making her a heroine to those demanding better police treatment of black men, but drawing sharp criticism from critics who accuse her of pursuing a political agenda and who say she moved too quickly.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
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Washington Post:
Mosby grew up in Boston and knew by age 6 that she wanted a career in law.
After Mosby badly cut her knee in a yard littered with broken glass, her mother sued the landlord. On their day in court, the judge looked down at the youngster.
“Hi, little girl,” her mother remembered the judge saying. “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Mosby didn’t hesitate: “A judge.”
Her interest in the law intensified when a 17-year-old cousin was shot and killed as he sat on a bike in the driveway of their grandparents’ Boston home in 1994.
The slaying of Diron Spence — apparently a case of mistaken identity — captivated Boston and stunned Mosby, who was 14. In past interviews, she has said it helped motivate her to become a lawyer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
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RW assholes at breitbart:
The lede:
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) declared the charges brought against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray “George Zimmerman and the Duke Lacrosse case all over again” and said “these cops are political prisoners,” offered up as human sacrifices, thrown like red meat to an angry mob” on Friday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel.
http://www.breitbart.com/...
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RW jerks at Carroll County Times in Maryland (my county):
The lede:
Carroll County Sheriff Jim DeWees joined others who questioned why Baltimore's top prosecutor charged the six officers in the Freddie Gray case so quickly rather than taking the time to seek an indictment.
"Why wasn't this case sent to a grand jury?" DeWees asked, adding that he hasn't seen the evidence against the officers.
DeWees echoed other law enforcement officials who said an outside investigation should have occurred before any decisions were made.
Need I say that DeWees, in addition to being a cop, is also a Republican.
http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/...
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Time.com:
In some ways, Mosby is an unlikely prosecutor to bring charges against police officers in the Gray case. Five generations of her family were all in law enforcement, and her grandfather was one of the first African-American police officers in Massachusetts. “I know that the majority of police officers are really hard-working officers who are risking their lives day in and day out, but those really bad ones who go rogue do a disservice to the officers who are risking their lives and taking time away from their families,” she told Baltimore Magazine in January.
Mosby was raised by a single mother in Boston, where in 1994 her 17-year-old cousin was killed near her home after being mistaken for a drug dealer. She was the first in her family to graduate from college and attended Tuskegee University in Alabama, studying political science. She later attended Boston College Law School and worked as assistant state’s attorney in the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s office.
http://time.com/...
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Tucker Carlson's site:
Throughout the presser, the 35-year-old prosecutor managed to maintain a fiery, authoritative demeanor AND flashed some serious “crazy girl” eyes, a combination which — if truth be told — I found incredibly sexy.
http://dailycaller.com/...
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There are thousands of other ugly sexist, racist, and authoritarian comments on the Internet that viciously attack Ms. Mosby. Makes me ashamed to live in this fucked-up country.
If she runs for higher office, I'm going to support her with everything I've got.