Originally published at: Defense lawyer in trial of Ahmaud Arbery's killers objects to courtroom visitors: "We don't want any more Black pastors coming in here" | Boing Boing
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He said they were sitting with the “victim’s family” - so his clients are guilty by his own admission.
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A slightly less incompetent attorney might have at least tried to find a more diplomatic and lawyerly way of expressing his argument, i.e. “bringing a nationally recognized figure like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson into the courtroom would be distracting and prejudicial for the jury.”
But no, he had to say the quiet part out loud.
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This is such a dumb move, that it could be a set-up for later arguing that the defendant’s conviction is unsafe because they were incompetently represented. It could be, but probably isn’t, applying Hanlon’s razor.
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That’s the reaction the woman on the right of the frame was going to do, but opted for “maybe I’ll just fix my hair”.
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Yeah she was totally about to do that, before she thought, “Oh yeah, I’m on the same legal team as this asshole. Shit, maybe I can just fix my hair and people won’t notice I was about to facepalm.”
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My theory is that the hair fixing was sublimation of the unstoppable facepalm reaction
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Nate Broady has a good summary of the case so far:
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“We don’t want any more Black pastors coming in here”
We don’t want racist domestic white terrorists lynching POC, thank you very much. What an asswipe.
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I’m ONE MILLION percent certain this guy has uttered the phrase " a lot of my best friends are black" on more than one occasion.
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He’s so racist I think there is a good possibility that he’s never said that ever, not even as cover for accusations of racism.
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How many white preachers have visited in support of the MAGA celebrity Kyle?
Also, the lady on the left is begging for SNL to bring back Rachel Dratch.
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What would you expect from a defense lawyer that struck 11 of 12 Black juror candidates, for “non-racial” reasons of course.
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I’m not familiar with this guy. His recap seemed fairly straightforward, even though his saying he didn’t know why the lawyer said “Black pastors” instead of “celebrity pastors” seemed weird. I know why. Those other lawyers know why.
Also the first time I’m actually watching any part of the Rittenhouse trial. That judge seems like a pompous ass. Then again, he is a judge, so…yeah.
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I took that to mean “there was no good reason for the lawyer to say ‘black pastors’, and it was a mistake for him to do so.”
You know, I know, Nate Broady knows, everybody knows why the lawyer said it.
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The lawyer probably thinks of himself as a genius for remembering to say “Black” instead of what he was thinking in his head. 
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Yeah, I’m curious what his responses to clarifying followup questions would be:
Would he allow white pastors of prominence?
Would he allow black imams of prominence?
Would he allow black pastors of negligible prominence?
These are important questions!
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