Amid a national outcry over brutal and biased policing in Baltimore, exposed in this week’s damning Justice Department (DOJ) report, the State’s Attorney’s Office is getting some heat as well.

Discussing what it called the Baltimore Police Department’s “grossly inadequate” response to sexual assault reports, the DOJ highlighted an ugly exchange between an officer and a city prosecutor:

“We also reviewed e-mail correspondence between a BPD officer and a prosecutor in which they openly expressed their contempt for and disbelief of a woman who had reported a sexual assault,” the DOJ report said.

“The prosecutor wrote that ‘this case is crazy. . . I am not excited about charging it. This victim seems like a conniving little whore. (pardon my language)’,” the report said. “The BPD officer replied, ‘Lmao! I feel the same.’”

Condemning the reported remark, State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby said her office was not made aware of it before the publication Wednesday of the DOJ’s 163-page findings.

“As indicated in this report, this allegation represents a time frame between 2010 and 2015,” Mosby said, in a statement released today by communications director Rochelle Ritchie.

“Because this administration began in 2015, which coincides with the time frame of the investigation,” she said, “we intend to look into this matter.”

Critics: DOJ Missed Prosecutors’ Role

Some critics have faulted the DOJ for failing to look at the role of the State’s Attorney’s Office in creating the toxic relationship between citizens and law enforcement, especially in light of the recent collapse of the last of Mosby’s cases against six officers in connection with the death of Freddie Gray.

The Justice Department should have highlighted “a pro-police local criminal justice system that fosters collusion between the FOP (Fraternal Order of Police), BPD (Baltimore Police Department) and SAO (State’s Attorney’s Office),” the anti-police brutality group Baltimore BLOC said, in its statement on the DOJ report.

The group, which has criticized the State’s Attorney’s Office’s handling of the cases of people who died in encounters with police, invoked their names this week in its statement.

“This institutional arrangement allows BPD officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, Tyrone West, Anthony Anderson and other victims to escape punishment,” the Baltimore BLOC statement said.

Mosby, who has blasted police for allegedly sabotaging her prosecution of the officers charged in connection with Gray’s death, had measured remarks about them this week, following the release of the DOJ report.

“While the vast majority of Baltimore City Police officers are good officers, we also know that there are bad officers and that the Department has routinely failed to oversee, train, or hold bad actors accountable,” Mosby said in the statement her office released Wednesday. “Since the death of Freddie Gray, a number of reforms have been put in place as a result of the prosecution of the six police officers.”

BLOC, meanwhile, decried what they said is an unhealthy relationship between police and prosecutors, saying “it upholds the belief among police that they are above the law and do not have to face consequences for their abuse, discriminatory actions and misconduct.”