(TriceEdneyWire.com)—For more than a year, I’ve been involved in working with Baltimore’s former State’s Atty., Marilyn Mosby, who has spent the last 5 years of her life defending herself and ultimately forced to wear an ankle bracelet for a year when she should have been praised for the great work she was doing. Her case was misunderstood by too many, including Black people who didn’t take the time to get the facts about what happened in the case against her.
Atty. Mosby is not a crook and did not deserve what the government did to her. It was Donald Trump’s wish that she be prosecuted for prosecuting others who should have been upholding the law. He wanted to interfere in her city by taking over and perhaps killing a few Black people to “teach them a lesson” about showing their anger for the killing of Freddie Gray—a Black man who died in police custody. Many in Baltimore were angry being given no rational reason for Mr. Gray’s death while being taken to a police station.
She is a brilliant attorney who served as an example for other prosecutors throughout the nation. While I was not her Counsel, I was on her team. Many helped us to get nearly 100,000 petitions for a pardon. We shared those petitions with President Joseph Biden who had pardoned his own son. Even though he was leaving office, we believed he understood the case against Marilyn, so we set out to work on the team of Atty. Mosby.
Leader of the World Conference of Mayors, Johnny Ford, supported the pardon. CBC and nearly100,000 learned the facts, and readily signed the pardon petition. Knowing of the support of nearly every civil rights organization leaders who’d supported Mr. Biden, we thought the pardon was a no-brainer. Yet, he left office without a word. People who knew the facts supported the pardon. We heard nothing from our request…