Picking Nits
Police response; omitted punch; absent Black lawyers; Fleming’s choice of counsel
In the discussion (4)
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- The police’s reluctance to rush a man throwing plates is questioned.
- Omitting Arthur’s punch at Fleming is questioned, then defended as an economical opening that starts with Arthur already jailed.
- The absence of Black lawyers in a Baltimore courthouse is questioned; a response finds that exclusion credible despite Black people elsewhere in the building.
- Fleming’s strategy of hiring the lawyer who punched him is criticized as arrogant and foolish compared with simply hiring Baltimore’s best available defense lawyer.