- Sat May 16, 2015 5:07 pm
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Baltimore prosecutors are seeking a gag order to prevent the six arrested police and their lawyers from speaking to the media about the Freddie Gray case.Typical liberal, attempting to once again abuse her power to take away these Officers' 1st Amendment rights. Once she had them charged with crimes she has no right to call them police officers who have the obligation to remain quite.
Rochelle Ritchie, a spokeswoman for State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby, said on Friday the office was seeking such an order, but declined to provide details.
Attorney Ivan Bates, released a joint statement from lawyers for the six officers urging Mosby to release evidence in the case.
"Relative to any potential request for a gag order, if the State truly wants transparency and accountability, as they have claimed, then it is imperative that the public understand the facts and the law beyond the bald allegations publicized by Mrs. Mosby," they wrote. "These allegations have yet to be supported by a single piece of evidence, despite repeated requests. We have made one simple repeated request: show us the evidence." Normally police involved in investigating an incident are restricted from talking to the media but the six police officers Mosby is attempting to gag have been charged with crimes so those restrictions don't apply. Bates explained that never before has a person charged with a crime been threatened with further charges if they talk about the incident they're charged for. "Mosby can't have it both ways, they are either police officers investigating the incident or they're subjects of crimes." "We have serious concerns the switch blade knife Mosby claims is illegal may disappear since we've learned her office has removed it from the police evidence room despite normal procedures that it remain under police control until time of trial. Mosby is resting her whole case that an illegal arrest was made; the switch blade knife is key to our defense, she has refused to allow the knife to be viewed or inspected. Officers who have seen the knife claim is it in fact illegal to own in Boston, those officers have received reprimands for leaking that information. This whole case smells of public lynchings to appease Mosby's voter base."