When Marilyn Mosby on May 1 announced the charges being filed against the police officers considered responsible for the death of Freddie Gray, she also gave insight into her family. She revealed that she comes from five generations of law enforcement, and expressed that “Law enforcement is pretty much instilled within my being”:
I come from five generations of law enforcement. My father was an officer. My mother was an officer. Several of my aunts and uncles. My recently departed and beloved grandfather was one of the founding members of the black police organization in Massachusetts.
These comments have been used in a seemingly coordinated assault on Mosby by associating her character with alleged misdoings of her relatives. A retired Baltimore police officer spoke with The Daily Caller(founded by Tucker Carlson), the story was picked up by Powerlineblog.com (whose article called Ms. Mosby a “dope”) and LEO Affairs (whose article states “Mosby’s family history gives them adequate reason to believe that it’s time that the state attorney recuse herself from the Gray case.”) AFOX affiliate also has also joined the character assassination by association.
