Marilyn Mosby, Esq.
I am heartened to see prominent attorneys of all genders, races, ethnicities, and hues rallying to Mosby's defense because while she is a passionate, progressive, and articulate defender of poor Black and brown folks, her outsized impact on criminal justice policy as Baltimore City State Attorney made her a convenient target for the hypocritical "law and order" crowd, who believe like Ghouliani and chump the brain dead comic carnival barker aka klueless the klown, the law only applies to those other "folks." And as these people placed a huge bullseyes on this sista's back, they employed other unconscious Black folks to do their bidding, their dirty work. The US District Court Judge and Assistant US Attorney are both Black. And though if it were any other ethnicity or race, that might mean something substantive, with our people, it does not mean shit. I cannot count how many times it was Black or brown people who screwed up a deal, position, or o