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The knife was illegal, despite what NoJusticeNoPeace Mosby said, all spring-assisted knives are illegal in MD. He also had warrants out for his arrest from what I have read.

The arrest was NOT illegal

Ms. Mosby faulted the police conduct at every turn. The officers who arrested him “failed to establish probable cause for Mr. Gray’s arrest, as no crime had been committed,” she said, describing the arrest as illegal.

This is the prosecutor speaking.

Ooops sorry, I wanted to comment on the knife and replied to you rather than Foxwell.

Here's what I wanted to send to you:

Officers accused him of possession of a switchblade, but Ms. Mosby said, “The knife was not a switchblade and is lawful under Maryland law.”

This is the prosecutor speaking, not me nor you.

“The knife was illegal, despite what NoJusticeNoPeace Mosby said, all spring-assisted knives are illegal in MD. He also had warrants out for his arrest from what I have read.”

That is incorrect. The only arguable way the knife was illegal was under the Baltimore City code. It is clearly not illegal under Maryland law. The City ordinance is vague, and may never have been challenged in court; that does not mean that the knife was illegal under it; though that may well be how police in Baltimore have used it for a while. We do not know what the common usage of this ordinance in Baltimore has been, and if prosecutors have been supporting its use as the police did in this case, that would certainly be a mitigating factor in the police’ favor.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/05/kansas-repeals-knife-ban-that-balimore.html

I have not seen any verification that they were warrants out for Freddy Grey’s arrest. None were mentioned in the reports by the arresting officers, which would be a very strange omission, if that is what they arrested him for.