In a conversation with The Boston Globe’s James Pindell, former Maryland governor Bob Ehrlich touched on recent events in his home state in the wake of protests and charges against police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.
When asked what he was most surprised about during the past week, Ehrlich, a Republican, mentioned “the timing” of prosecutor Marilyn Mosby’s announcement that six officers would face charges in the death of Gray, who was fatally injured while in police custody.
“The thought was that the prosecutor would take time ... to do her investigation, determine the facts, look at this report, and determine how to proceed.”
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Of the riots earlier in the week, Ehrlich said that “if more fathers would have been in those homes the first day those kids congregated and all the trouble started, and said ‘you know what, there’s a way to do this, let’s do it right, let’s not go torch things, we need to protest, we need to dissent, we need to do what we do, but not this,’ maybe we wouldn’t be in the jam we’re in right now.”