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Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby Receives Racist Voicemail From Unidentified White Woman

She is standing with St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner.

Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby is standing with St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner after she received a racist and hateful voicemail message from an unidentified white women about Garnder.

“How dare you come to St. Louis and say you’ve got the back of that lousy b***h, State’s Attorney Kim Gardner,” the woman said in the voicemail. “She is just like you, that’s why. Birds of a feather, b*****s. That’s what you are. You hate cops, you hate white people. You do everything you can to give all the Blacks who are criminals every benefit of the doubt that everybody else is a suspect.”

The message continued: “Black lives only matter when a white person takes it. You Blacks can kill each other all you want. In fact, I think that’s the grand solution. We need to start driving around the ghetto to just drop them boxes of bullets on every street corner.”

Mosby’s tweet of the voicemail included the caption, “This is why #IStandWithKimGardner and this hateful rhetoric only strengthens my resolve to continue fighting for justice and working to undo the blight of mass incarceration and its impact on communities of color.”

According to The Appeal, Black women prosecutors are rallying around Gardner because she’s also allegedly facing racist actions from city officials and police unions.

Garnder has since filed a civil lawsuit alleging that the city and St. Louis Police Officers Association are violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which is “meant to deter white citizens and government officials from conspiring to prevent the expansion of civil rights and equality for Black citizens.”

Gardner’s fellow states attorneys say that her experience is “emblematic of the types of attacks that we, as Black women prosecutors, have faced around the country.”

Among the prosecutors rallying behind Gardner include Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins, Bronx County District Attorney Darcel Clark, Portsmouth, Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorney Stephanie Morales, as well as the aforementioned Marilyn Mosby.

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