What a disaster.
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby charged the wrong people, wrong names, wrong birth dates and wrong address during Friday’s much hyped press conference.
The six Baltimore officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray are (top row from left) Caesar Goodson Jr., Garrett Miller, Edward Nero and (bottom row from left) William Porter, Brian Rice and Alicia White. (Baltimore Police Department via AP)
Sheriff Mike Lewis shared this information on Hannity on Monday.
“When Miss Mosby stood up in front of the world with her theatrics at her press conference last Friday she charged two of the wrong people. Now, when I say she charged two of the wrong people, I don’t mean she charged two of the wrong officers. I mean she charged the wrong people. Innocent people. Of the six police officers that were charged two of them were charged under the wrong names, the wrong dates of birth and the wrong addresses.
And because of that, reporters went to the wrong addresses of these innocent people, these private citizens and whose lives have now been invaded. They went to their homes, knocked on their doors. They harassed them. They went to their neighbors and attempted to get interviews. And it wasn’t until these innocent people these private citizens contacted their local state’s attorney’s offices that this problem was rectified.”
The Baltimore Sun reported on the mistake.
When charges were announced Friday against Alicia White for the death ofFreddie Gray, her phone started buzzing from journalists and bail bondsmen.*
The problem was, they were calling the wrong Alicia White. The elementary school cafeteria manager from East Baltimore was not the Baltimore Police sergeant charged with manslaughter in the high-profile police custody death – even though court records listed her.
The middle initial was off. Her address, her height, her weight, her driver’s license number – all of the information was my client’s information,” said Jeremy Eldridge, an attorney who says he has been hired by the resident.
“Her life has been a living hell the past four days,” he said.
An attorney for Lt. Brian Rice said his client’s information was also entered incorrectly when prosecutors filed charges, but declined further comment.
On Friday evening, Tammy and Brian Rice of Brunswick, Md. said they were receiving multiple calls from reporters looking for the lieutenant. Brian Rice of Brunswick is a plumber, they said.
The Baltimore Sheriff’s Office, which assisted the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office in charging the officers, declined to comment and referred questions to prosecutors, who could not immediately be reached.
I can’t imagine the hell this is putting these poor people through. And of course the prosecutors aren’t returning calls on it. They don’t care about the devastation they leave in their wake. All they care about is money, fame and power and they won’t let ‘glitches’ get in the way of their agenda. However, I will say this… this incompetence may actually help the accused officers in the end. We’ll see. Mosby is one heck of a lawyer – I’d hate to have her representing me on anything. Her incompetence is only exceeded by her pandering to rioters. “We will pursue justice by any and all means necessary,” Mosby said. As BizPac Review pointed out, “By any means necessary” was a catchphrase Malcolm X made popular in the 1960s as the motto of his post-Nation of Islam Organization of Afro-American Unity. It was — and is — considered a justification for violence to achieve a radical vision of “social justice.” This is the reasoning and logic used by Mosbry and if a few mistakes are made along the way to ‘lynching’ these officers, well… by any means necessary.