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Eric Puryear Jan 12, 2023

This week, a bailiff stopped me and acted as though I was in the wrong place as I walked through a portion of the courthouse that is restricted to attorneys and judges.

I'm an attorney. I was wearing a suit and conducting myself just like every other attorney in that area.

This is not the first time that has happened. I can think of several other instances in various counties where courthouse security has assumed that my black skin means I must not be an attorney.

I'm tired of it.

#racism

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[David Nathanson has moved]

@eric Some of the responses suggest this is a rural problem. It is not. My non- white colleagues in the metro Boston area experience this regularly including in cities that are majority non-white. And it includes non-white court officers acting this way. Racism is horribly ingrained. We need to do much, much better.