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Baltimore prosecutor asked police to target area where Freddie Gray was arrested
The Baltimore Sun ^ | 6/09/15 | Kevin Rector


About three weeks before Freddie Gray was chased from a West Baltimore corner by three Baltimore police officers — the start of a fatal encounter — the office of prosecutor Marilyn Mosby asked police to target the intersection with "enhanced" drug enforcement efforts, court documents show.

"State's Attorney Mosby asked me to look into community concerns regarding drug dealing in the area of North Ave and Mount St," Joshua Rosenblatt, division chief of Mosby's Crime Strategies Unit, wrote in a March 17 email to a Western District police commander. The email was disclosed for the first time Tuesday in a motion filed in Baltimore Circuit Court by defense attorneys for the six officers being prosecuted in Gray's arrest and death. The attorneys said Mosby's involvement in the police initiative meant that she should be removed from the case.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...

Best line of the article...""Mrs. Mosby herself is now an integral part of the story and as such is a central witness ... " the defense attorneys argued. "This is a case where the witness and the prosecutor are one and the same.""
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