Defender of the downtrodden
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A man known to officials only as Mister E. (pronounced mis-tuh-ree), that watches over [Baltimores] [downtrodden]. It is rumored that when he was a younger affluent man, he was [jailed] after being falsely accused of a crime that would have had him killed had he not been saved by a poor, uneducated, black man in his cell.
Defender of the downtrodden meaning & definition 1 of Defender of the downtrodden.