Guilty in Baltimore

Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake

No, it was not that Baltimore-petty-criminal-martyr, Freddie Gray's arresting officer, Edward Nero, who had faced a recent judicial trial. He was, in fact, just found not guilty by Judge Barry Williams ... see: CBS Local News. It was and is the city's mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who was culpable. She paid out an outrageous $6.4 million settlement  to Gray's family to compensate them for this travesty of justice which it  now turns out was not a travesty of justice. This clueless woman has twice now shown her gross incompetency to serve in this mayoral position. First when she stepped aside and allowed, even encouraged, the rioters and looters there to trash her city right after Freddie Gray died while in police custody. And second, by prematurely paying this settlement out when it is clear now that it was not justified.

Even the attorney for the Gray family, Billy Murphy complimented the job done by the judge in this case saying:

I have to commend Judge Williams on not being influenced by public opinion. It’s a very, very difficult job to sit as a judge under these enormously stressful conditions, and once again Barry Williams has shown he is a fair and impartial man… He showed tremendous courage in ruling against public opinion.

At least Mayor Rawlings-Blake has recently come to her senses ... saying that she will not stand for re-election. For this the taxpayers of Baltimore should be pleased.