I did not promise.

You are not allowed to promise a child that, and every officer who has done the training knows it, and the reason is that if you promise a seven-year-old something you cannot deliver, then the next adult who tells her a true thing gets nothing, because you burned it.

So I said: “I can’t promise you that, because I don’t get to decide everything that happens today.

Here’s what I can promise.

I promise that nobody is going to make you leave this building with anybody while I’m standing here.

I promise I will tell you the truth about what’s happening, every time, even if it’s not what you want.