VideoOn May 1, with National Guard troops on patrol, Ms. Mosby announced that she was bringing criminal charges against six officers. He said the trials highlighted the need — as Ms. Mosby suggested at her news conference on Wednesday — for independent investigators and prosecutors to handle police misconduct cases. It is “extraordinarily unusual” for prosecutors to publicly criticize the police, said David Jaros, a law professor at the University of Baltimore. The lawyers also echoed a charge made in court that a detective assigned to the case was sabotaging it. “We had to face the reality,” he said, “that defendants would select judge trials, and that this judge would try the cases.”

Source: New York Times July 28, 2016 18:48 UTC