My Stepfather Handcuffed Me During A Call Until Five Black SUVs Arrived

he had once used to frighten others. Some people said he got off easy. Maybe he did. But I watched him leave the courthouse without his badge, no uniform, no sidearm, no one stepping aside for him, and I saw a man stripped of the costume he had confused with character.

That was not nothing.

My mother attended the hearing. Not beside me. Not beside Frank.continue reading …