I mean, to be honest with you, as -- I expected, as the state’s attorney, that fighting for racial justice in the criminal justice system, fighting to end mass incarceration in a state where you have the largest sort of incarceration of black people in the entire nation, I understood that I was going to get pushback.
Marilyn Mosby discusses the challenges and pushback she faced while fighting for racial justice and against mass incarceration.
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