Just a short time ago State Attorney Marilyn Mosby held a brief press conference to announce the results of the grand jury’s review of the case involving Freddie Gray and 6 Baltimore police officers:

https://youtu.be/OQ30tJ17RV8

The indictments came almost three weeks after Mosby announced the original criminal charges against the officers.  However, with today’s announcement, some of those charges have been revised.  The Baltimore Sun’s Justin Fenton writes:

New charges included reckless endangerment, while charges of false imprisonment were removed by the grand jury.

Officer Caesar R. Goodson, the driver of the van used to transport Gray on April 12, remains charged with second-degree depraved heart murder, which is the most serious charge among all six officers. He was also charged with manslaughter, second-degree assault, vehicular manslaughter — gross negligence, vehicular manslaughter — criminal negligence, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment, which is a new charge.

The full list of charges for each officer can be found here or here:

Here are the revised charges against the 6 Baltimore cops over Freddie Gray's death, as announced by @MarilynMosbyEsq pic.twitter.com/KBE06VoVSN

— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) May 21, 2015

Mosby noted that additional information was brought to light during the grand jury hearings, but did not elaborate nor answer questions as to what that information is.  Doug Ross of the Daily Caller reports:

On Wednesday, a low-quality video recorded by a witness to Gray’s arrest surfaced showing officers putting a motionless Gray in leg shackles before sliding him back into the police van

Did that video have a bearing on the revised charges?  Its anyone’s guess at this time.  Meanwhile, the officers, who are currently free on bail, will be arraigned on July 2nd while their  attorneys continue their work to defend the officers and to press for Mosby’s recusal from the case citing conflicts of interest.

The grand jury only met for two weeks.  As some are pointing out, the return on indictment seems rather quick.

In Baltimore, the charges came fast, the grand jury's indictment came fast. Almost everywhere else, everything moves… very… slow…

— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) May 21, 2015

That’s a good point. Especially when one considers that the Ferguson grand jury started their investigation on August 20, 2014 and didn’t reach their decision until November 24, 2014.  That’s a span of three full months of testimony, review, and deliberations.  Meanwhile the Baltimore grand jury has had less than a month to hear testimony, review the charges, and make their determination. Considering that Mosby announced the initial charges against the officers barely a day after the autopsy was finished, there couldn’t be a rush to judgement could there?

Right now there are 6 police officers whose careers and lives hang in the balance because of the death of a criminal named Freddie Gray.

And they are up against a prosecutor who ran on a platform of reforming the criminal justice system no matter what it takes. These officers are supposed to be, as our justice system promises, innocent until proven guilty.

The focus of this case should be on Freddie Gray and the actions of those 6 police officers. However, Mosby’s pandering to people like Prince, the excitement of scoring an interview with Vogue and her ties to city councilman husband Nick Mosby are causing her to treat this as a political rather than a prosecutorial case. Should this case continue on the route she has chosen; the system of justice she wants to reform so badly will end up being the ultimate loser in this endeavor.