The NY Times: A Study In Fakery [CBD]

An article in Friday's NY Times titled, "Marilyn Mosby, Prosecutor in Freddie Gray Case, Takes a Stand and Calms a Troubled City," is exactly what one would expect from what is now the loudest national voice in support of mob rule. No link, because I will not be responsible for smashed monitors and vomit-soaked keyboards.

At 35, Ms. Mosby -- whose official title is the Maryland state's attorney for Baltimore City -- has been shaped by her own experience growing up black in a tough part of town. As a student in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, she would awaken at 5 a.m. for an hourlong bus ride to attend school in a wealthy white suburb; she was the only black child there.

When she was 14, her cousin was mistaken for a drug dealer, and shot and killed on the doorstep of her home. As adults, she said in an interview, both she and her husband -- Nick Mosby, a member of the Baltimore City Council -- have learned what it feels like to be looked upon with suspicion by the police.

Her cousin was killed by the cops? Is that what the Times is intimating? Of course the reality is that her cousin was just another victim of Black-on-Black crime. So what does her cousin's death have to do with anything?

posted by Open Blogger at 11:57 AM

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