"This young man, like many young men in Family Court, is beset with a series of personal issues. So for her to hurl epithets at him is almost like piling on to his problems,” said Holden Thornhill, a Black man who's been practicing law in Family Court for 25 years, of his teenage client. Thornhill also reflected on the racism he's faced as a Black attorney.
April 20, 2021 at 02:18 PM
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Staff reporter
The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
In the first moments after Holden Thornhill heard a white Family Court clerk call his Black teenage client the N-word during a virtual court proceeding last Thursday, his mind reeled and he found it difficult to mentally process what he’d just heard.
Where did that come from? he thought. Did I just hear what I think I did?
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