When an agent moved to secure him, Holt jerked backward and shoved the agent's arm away. His hand dropped toward his belt, prompting a sharp command to keep it visible, and two agents restrained him before the situation became more dangerous. The struggle lasted only a few seconds, though to the watching neighbors it felt much longer. Holt cursed, demanded that Williams call the police chief, and insisted that nobody understood who they were dealing with.
"We know exactly whom the warrant names," Williams said. "Stop resisting."
They secured Holt's hands and escorted him toward a federal vehicle. An agent collected his duty weapon as part of the arrest procedure, and Holt's badge followed into the property inventory. Mrs. Carter stood slowly, her shawl gathered under one hand, watching the man who had told her she might lose her home if she refused to sell. She did not applaud. She simply looked at him with an expression that seemed to ask why so much harm had ever been necessary.
"You can't do this," Holt said again, his voice weaker now. "I run this street."
Mrs. Carter spoke before anyone else could answer. "No, Captain. People live on this street. That's a different thing."
Angela heard several neighbors murmur in agreement. The agents guided Holt into the vehicle and closed the door, and a strange quiet settled over the intersection. It was not the silence of disbelief from the first raid; it was the silence that follows an event people had imagined for so long they no longer knew what to do when it actually occurred. Angela felt Marcus's hand around hers and realized that her own fingers were trembling.
Elsewhere in the city, another federal team arrested Tyler Griggs outside the precinct. He reportedly argued loudly, demanded his supervisor, and insisted that the recordings of Angela's arrest had been taken out of context. Other officers were detained in connection with specific incidents, including Sergeant Miller, who had been involved in the destructive second search. The warrants named individual conduct rather than every person who had ever worked under Holt, and investigators continued interviewing employees who might have useful evidence but were not accused of criminal acts.
The arrest of Miller was particularly difficult for Angela to watch later on the local news. His wife stood in their doorway, frightened and holding their youngest child, while agents escorted him toward a vehicle. Angela had not forgotten the sound of the cabinet breaking or his role in the raid, and she believed he needed to answer for what he had done. But she also knew the family beside him had not chosen those actions, and she turned away from the screen before their distress could become entertainment.
"I wanted accountability," Angela told Marcus. "I never wanted children to be afraid of what happened to their father."
"You didn't decide what he did," Marcus answered. "And you didn't decide how the warrant would be served. We can hold him responsible without treating his family like they deserved the consequences."