Before a mural depicting Freddie Gray – the 25-year-old’s face staring out at her, and at her prosecutors – Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby today announced her office is dropping the remaining charges against police officers in connection with Gray’s in-custody death in April 2015.

After four of the six cases she brought against city officers police in involved in Gray’s arrest – with one trial ending in a hung jury and three others ending in acquittal by the same judge – it was clear that the prosecution strategy was going nowhere.

Mosby blamed the losses on “the system” of police officers investigating themselves whom she said exhibited “inherent bias” and poisoned the investigation.

“After much thought and prayer it has become clear that without being able to work with an independent investigatory agency from the very start, without having a say in the election of whether cases proceed in front of a judge or jury, without communal oversight of police in this community, without substantive reforms to the current criminal justice system, we could try this case 100 times and cases just like it and we would still end up with the same result,” she said.

Calling herself “not anti-police” but “anti-police brutality,” Mosby went on to castigate police officers, without naming names, at length and in great detail.

“There were individual police officers that were witnesses to the case yet were part of the investigative team interrogations that were conducted with out asking the most poignant (sic) questions, witnesses that were completely uncooperative and started a counter investigation to disprove the state’s case by not executing search warrants pertaining to text messages among the police officers involved in the case, creating videos to prove the state’s case without our knowledge, creating notes that were drafted after the case was launched to contradict the medical examiner’s conclusion, tuning these notes over to defense attorneys months prior to turning them over to the state,” she said, quoting just a portion of her remarks.

For residents and observers, it was a shocking denouement for a prosecution that began with such an oratorical flourish on May 1 – when Mosby declared announced the charges saying “I heard your call for no justice no peace” as the city still smouldered from days of civil unrest.

And amid the finger-pointing and citywide furor in Baltimore, one reality remained – no one was going to be held criminally responsible for the death of Gray, whose cervical spine was nearly severed sometime during his arrest and transport.

One source of praise for Mosby today was Gray’s family which received a $6.4 million civpayout from the city in September, a payout issued before any suit had been filed.

The family members “stand behind” Mosby and her prosecutors, said Richard Shipley, Gray’s stepfather, who attended Mosby’s news conference and said they “did the best to their ability.”

Among those denouncing Mosby today?

Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump (“She ought to prosecute herself”) and the union representing city police.

“Justice has been done” said FOP 3 president Lt. Gene Ryan, going on to call Mosby’s remarks about the officers “outrageous and uncalled for and simply untrue.”