He said that four officers knocked and identified themselves and that Christopher Voss opened the door in a hotel dressing gown and said, “Yes, all right,” and turned around and put his hands behind his back before anybody had asked him to.

He did not ask what the charges were.

Ruiz mentioned that twice, in two separate conversations, months apart, and the second time he said: “Twenty-six years.

I have taken maybe four hundred people into custody.

They ask.

Innocent, guilty, drunk, asleep, halfway out a window — they ask what it’s for.

It’s the most human thing there is.

“He didn’t ask because he already knew, and because he had four or five answers ready and he wanted to hear the question first so he’d know which one to use.”