BALTIMOREet al.: Faculty React Faculty React LARRY GIBSON “There are some lessons being learned that maybe Baltimore is teaching the Professor of Law rest of the nation. I don’t recall when I’ve seen this unanimity between law “What the 1968 Riots enforcement and other leaders in the community in dealing with a crisis of this Can Tell Us About This Week” sort…ministers, public officials, young people all working together with the “Maryland Morning,” WYPR-FM police. …There have been no shots fired, no one has been killed. Because when bullets April 28, 2015 start to fly you see recrimination back and forth and a division develops between the community and the police.” “We should be as concerned with “I think that we really saw the value of black adherence to process as we are to leadership [Tuesday] night. To have [Congressman] methodically investigating the police Elijah Cummings on the streets, to have much of officers and their responsibility for the African-American leadership on the streets, has Freddie Gray’s death. Sitting in jail for days, with no made a very significant difference in how this could have gone…” indication of what charges are against you, should not be something we are seeing in the American criminal MICHAEL MILLEMANN justice system.” Jacob A. France Professor of Public Interest Law “Black Power in Baltimore: When African-American RENÉE HUTCHINS Leaders Confront Racial Unrest” Professor of Law and co-director, Clinical Law Program The Los Angeles Times “Baltimore Courts Struggle to Handle Protest Arrests” April 29, 2015 BuzzFeedNews April 29, 2015 “If you dissect this from the initial pursuit to the initial detention to the ANDREW LEVY ’77 arrest to the transfer to the vehicle, that’s a pretty complicated timeline, Adjunct Professor and I think we’re going to hear lots of defense from individuals basically “Experts: Convictions Will Be Tough to that will distill down to, ‘It wasn’t my job. I was just following orders.’ Win in Baltimore Case” Those are not frivolous defenses in a context like this. Not everybody is necessarily Associated Press, published in Jet, The responsible for everything.” Boston Globe, and other publications May 2, 2015 SHERRILYN IFILL “…How do you engage with the mentally ill? How do you Professor of Law and president & de-escalate an encounter…with a teenager? How do you deal with director-counsel of the NAACP Legal your own racial bias that makes you believe that a young African- Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. American man is a criminal? That’s the training I think police “Face the Nation,” CBS News officers across the country are missing and they have to have it.” May 3, 2015 Published by DigitalCommons@UM Carey Law, 2015 1 8 Maryland Carey Law Magazine MarylandBALTIMORE Carey Law, Vol. 2015 [2015], Art. 4 Baltimore’s troubles, “As many have MICHAEL PINARD learned in light of Professor of Law and co-director, grounded in Freddie Gray’s death, Clinical Law Program Baltimore’s criminal Op-ed in The Baltimore Times inequality justice system bears down on its black May 8, 2015 “ residents with particular might and are the nation’s fury. …The urgency of holistic criminal reform is essential and, indeed, urgent.” troubles. At Freddie’s funeral on April 27th “Police officers are accustomed DOUGLAS COLBERT my congressman, to the local prosecutor finding Professor of Law their actions justified or otherwise “As Feds Probe Baltimore Police, Cops Elijah Cummings, finding insufficient evidence to in Freddie Gray Case Seek Removal of “ charge a crime. Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby” That explains asked whether ‘anyone why nationally 98 to 99 Interview with Amy Goodman of recognize[d] Freddie percent of police killings “Democracy Now” result in no charges being May 11, 2015 when he was alive?’ filed at all—no indictment, no TAUNYA LOVELL BANKS criminal proceedings. Our prosecutor Jacob A. France Professor of here in Baltimore City has taken Equality Jurisprudence a different tack and she ought to “The Untimely Death of Freddie Gray be recognized and applauded for and Baltimore’s ‘Troubles’: A Few creating an independent investigation, Comments from the Trenches—Part I” independent of the police.” The Faculty Lounge May 7, 2015 DAVID GRAY “I think [the charges] reflect [State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s] Professor of Law view that there was nothing about this situation, from the initial “Baltimore Officers Plan to Challenge engagement to the final admitting of Mr. Gray to Shock Trauma… Prosecutor’s Basic Accusation” that she regarded as an appropriate use of police powers. I can’t The New York Times imagine a stronger condemnation.” May 14, 2015 “We’re studying through this MICHAEL GREENBERGER course a broad range of issues: Professor and director, Center for Health and Homeland Security housing, education, health care, “Off the Streets and Onto the Syllabus: The Freddie Gray Course” policing, criminal justice. Each “All Things Considered” of those subjects begins with a legal National Public Radio framework. …We believe that through the Aug. 22, 2015 class, we will identify the actions that need to be taken as legal matters. And it will help us identify what further support we can give to the Baltimore inner-city community.” https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/mcl/vol2015/iss2/4 2 Maryland Carey Law Magazine 9.