“Nobody forced you to drive to my house.

Nobody forced you to threaten us on a recording.

Nobody forced you to copy a key and let yourself through my gate, or to put your hands on me on my own porch.

You did every one of those things yourself, freely, after being warned.

All I did was make sure there was a camera running while you did.” The sirens swelled and then two marked cruisers swung into my driveway, lights turning the front of the house blue and red.

The instant the officers came up the steps, I did the thing I had been intending to do from the beginning.