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Lawyers struggle to keep up with civil rights cases amid America's racial reckoning
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/lawyers-struggle-keep-civil-rights-cases-amid-america-s-racial-n1234714In the months since George Floyd's death in Minneapolis in May and the subsequent national demonstrations against police brutality, lawyer J. Wyndal Gordon's phone has been ringing virtually nonstop. And he's troubled by the calls.
Gordon, dubbed "the Warrior Lawyer" because he takes on cases of the underprivileged, said his Baltimore office has been overloaded with inquiries from people of color seeking his services for civil rights violations.
"You'd think that with all that's going on in the country, things would be going the other way," Gordon said in an interview. "But it's the opposite."
The requests have been so plentiful that Gordon has had to refuse more cases than he could accept, he said.
"Excessive force [by police officers] and discrimination, mostly," he said. "I would say there has been a 30 percent increase in business in the last few months. There are so many calls and cases that you can't take them all.
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