If somebody under questioning, in a situation where people often request and have rights to lawyers, mentions a lawyer, what's the correct action? A) consider

If somebody under questioning, in a situation where people often request and have rights to lawyers, mentions a lawyer, what's the correct action? A) consider whether the person might be requesting a lawyer and help them exercise their constitutional right. B) find some way, any way, to interpret their request as something else. Apparently the police thought he wanted a "lawyer dog"? Come off it. Rights are only real if people can exercise them. This court decision decimated the right to a defense in every meaningful sense.