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The Arrest of an Advocate in Tarime: When Police Target a Lawyer for Doing His Job You read the news and your stomach dropped. An advocate — arrested inside a courthouse, minutes after the clients he was defending were acquitted. Not in a back alley. Not after a traffic stop. In court, in front of the judge, in the middle of doing the job the Constitution protects. If you are an advocate yourself, you felt it personally: that could have been me. If you are a person who depends on the legal system to be fair, you felt it differently: if they can arrest the lawyer, what protects the rest of us? We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We build civil rights cases. We know what it looks like when state power is turned against a professional whose only “offense” was doing his job inside a courtroom. And we know what has to happen in the hours and days after that kind of arrest, because the evidence that proves the wrong is already on a clock, and the state is already rewriting the story. This is our analysis of what happened in Tarime on May 22, 2026…