Ten, maybe a dozen, cops force us at gunpoint—and by we, I mean also six-year-old Nia Imani—into the courtyard in front of our cottage while the others swarm past us and enter my home like angry hornets or a sudden airborne plague. They are in my home for hours. Detectives join them at some point and begin taking pictures of everything outside and, from what we can tell, inside my home. We have not been given a search warrant and we cannot protest. We are being held at gunpoint the entire time and are mostly blocked from watching what they do inside my home, what they take, what they leave.
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