How Dare You Not Protect or Take on Humanity?

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Laura says one of the most memorable times she was in court was when she witnessed two young men being sentenced. Laura remembers the victim's father saying to the judge, please. There's been enough loss already. We don't want this one of the defendants collapsed. A marshal helped the young man back up and then stood behind him so that people in the court room couldn't see him. And i remember that that marshal never moving, holding him up. Was trying to give some semblance of dignity and humanity to this man.

When Laura Coates decided to become a prosecutor in Washington, D.C., she was told that the job would be “human misery.” She says she remembers thinking, “If there's one person in the justice system who could do something about human misery, surely, it's the powerful prosecutor.” After four years, she quit.

Laura’s book is Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight For Fairness.

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