Dan Rodricks' article "Another verdict, another sign to move on" (July 18) incorrectly concludes that justice has been meted out fair and square in the Freddie Gray case. He says we should "... move on to trials that matter, with real, provable criminality."
In fact, that grave, bad decisions and mistakes were made was not contested.
The fact that a young man died while these bad decisions and grave mistakes occurred is not contested. So what we are left with is the legal interpretation of "criminality liability" — but not justice for a needless death.
Unlike Mr. Rodricks and his unnecessary snarky comments about Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, I applaud Ms. Mosby for something that in recent memory has never happened — police accountability with police officers standing trial for their misdeeds.
As Matt Taibbi pointed out this month in Rolling Stone magazine, "... unless there's video, or multiple witnesses, there's usually no consequence at all for police violence. ...The overwhelming majority of incidents simply disappear."
So I will move on hoping it is toward accountability and justice.
Meanwhile, my ACLU phone app is ready to record any grave mistakes and bad decisions I or others might encounter with Baltimore's police officers.
Carol Higgs, Baltimore