Last Monday, a teen who had recently been arrested for Grand Theft Auto killed Baltimore County Police Officer Amy Caprio after she responded to calls of burglary in the northeast suburb of Perry Hall. When Caprio, a four-year veteran of the department, confronted the four teens who were allegedly breaking into homes, she drew her weapon and ordered them to get out of their vehicle. Instead, the 16-year-old driver ran her over. Caprio was pronounced dead hours later at a nearby hospital.
The racially charged incident — Caprio was white and the four teens were black — has set off a “racial firestorm” over what went wrong, but the president of a Baltimore chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police says one person in particular deserves the lion’s share of the blame: Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who made headlines for her social justice rhetoric following the death of Freddie Gray and her subsequent overcharging of six officers that resulted in all the charges dropped.
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