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PHOTO: Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, center, speaks at a rally in St. Louis, Jan. 14, 2020, with several other African-American female prosecutors in support of Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner.
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\"These are the types of attacks we encounter every day as women of color in a position of authority, and I traveled to St. Louis because this is the unfortunate experience of black female prosecutors everywhere,\" Mosby said in a statement to ABC News. \"It’s deeply disturbing that in 2020 we still have to experience such blatant racism, but 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.\"

Gardner is the first black woman elected as the top prosecutor in St. Louis and the lawsuit appears to mark the first time an elected local prosecutor has brought a federal case against the police union for racially motivated civil rights violations.

On Monday, Gardner held a press conference to announce the civil lawsuit she filed in the Eastern District of Missouri and was supported by other leading black female prosecutors from across the country including Mosby.

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PHOTO: Marilyn Mosby, who serves as the State's Attorney for Baltimore, Md., remarks about a federal lawsuit filed by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, during a press conference in St. Louis on Jan. 14, 2020.
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\"Quite candidly, Kim, like the others who stand before you today, has challenged the status quo and the keepers of the status quo don't like that, which is why she is being personally and professionally attacked,\" Mosby said the podium on Monday. \"Every prosecutor here has had similar experiences to Kim.\"

Mosby also spoke out about receiving death threats since taking office in 2015, in particular, for indicting six police officers in connection to the death of Freddie Gray, who suffered a catastrophic spinal injury while in custody.

ABC News' Aaron Katersky contributed to this report.

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