Marilyn Mosby: “the stakes couldn’t be higher.”

So, one of the things that I recognized, as a prosecutor, my ability to shape the criminal justice system, recognizing, as I stated, that these low-level offenses for black people in this country can lead to a death sentence.

Because of this verdict, we say to the world as a country, we`re no longer willfully ignorant, black lives do matter.

I offered to prove my innocence by making myself available to present exculpatory evidence to the grand jury. But the U.S. attorney and the lead prosecutor in the case, who has donated to my political opponents and who has personal animus…

I understood that I was going to get pushback. But never did I or could I have ever imagined that I would be mocked, that I would be ridiculed, that I would receive hate mail, that I would receive death threats, they would describe how my…