Like the rest of #BlackLivesMatters' lynch mobs, the Freddie Gray hoax was baseless and Judge Williams shot down one attempt after another to lynch six police officers, black and white, over a drug deal.
Now it's over. All except for the protesting.
Prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray in a downtown courtroom on Wednesday morning, concluding one of the most high-profile criminal cases in Baltimore history.
The startling move was an apparent acknowledgement of the unlikelihood of a conviction following the acquittals of three other officers on similar and more serious charges by Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams, who was expected to preside over the remaining trials as well.
The case was always baseless and as I had written earlier, the lynch mob had the misfortune to run into a good judge.
The law enforcement officers targeted by #BlackLivesMatter in the Freddie Gray hoax were black and white. Judge Williams treated them all fairly. He kept asking the prosecution the tough questions and the right questions, whether it was in the case of Officer Caesar Goodson, who is black, or Officer Edward Nero, who is white.
After Goodson’s trial, both men embraced. And Goodson was in attendance to hear Lt. Brian Rice’s verdict and then shook his hand in a fine example of blue lives solidarity across racial lines.
So it's over now. Though perhaps not for Mosby and others who bent, folded and mutilated the process in the hopes of getting what they wanted. Mosby is predictably attacking cops over it while refusing to take any responsibility. But her shot at fame has now collapsed badly. And #BlackLivesMatter burned a city for yet another lie.