Mob Rule Prosecution Won't Solve Baltimore Race Problem

Marilyn Mosby should not be allowed to be a law clerk, let alone a state’s attorney/prosecutor. To prosecute police officers explicitly to please a mob is exactly the opposite of what a prosecutor should do. That is, to prosecute only when the facts and law demand it. To press charges because a gang of thugs loots liquor stores and promises to loot more liquor stores if charges are not pressed is exactly lynch mob justice. It has nothing to do with the sacred rule of innocent until proven guilty.

This is a dangerous woman. She bears watching. I turn to the greatest cure all for the problems of Baltimore and Ferguson. Work. The media should be ashamed for using their power to kowtow to the mob, to tell young thugs that if you throw bricks at cops we will not call you thugs, and we will make you stars on TV. Shame. Turn off the cameras, lock up the vodka, and we will see how many turn out for political protest, so writes Ben Stein in The American Spectator.

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