Yea, he wanted a lawyer and his right to counsel was blatantly ignored.
You have zero rights when they decide your “rights” are inconvenient for them.
The police purposefully used bad grammar as well. It should read. “This is how I feel. If ya’all think I did it, I know that I didn’t do it, so why don’t you just get me a lawyer, dog?”
“So why don’t you just get me a lawyer” That’s the key phrase there. The rest of the sentence is fluff. He asked for a lawyer clear as day.
They purposefully and willfully ignored his request, changed up the grammar to make it look good for them, found judges that would back them up, then convicted him, made him a sex offender, and sent him to prison.
Police are trained in AAVE, those guys deal with this slang every single day. They knew what he wanted, but they got what they wanted, a conviction. That’s all they ever want and they’ll go to hell and back to convict you even if innocent.
It’s really convenient that the article didn’t include his “incriminating statements”, probably because there weren’t any.
> The police purposefully used bad grammar as well. It should read. “This is how I feel. If ya’all think I did it, I know that I didn’t do it, so why don’t you just get me a lawyer, dog?” <
Excellent analysis there.