She told them about Mrs. Carter's letters, the repeated police visits, the day Captain Holt stood beside the developer's representative, and the ten cruisers that blocked Brookside Street. When she reached the moment Griggs grabbed her arm, she paused long enough to swallow. Williams did not rush her. She asked where each officer had been standing, how Angela had moved, and which nearby cameras might have recorded the contact.
Angela described the first forced entry and the second search separately. She made a point of saying that the second search had been conducted under a signed warrant, even though she believed the allegations in the affidavit were false. Torres wrote that distinction carefully. The agents wanted to know exactly which facts had been witnessed, which had been documented, and which remained allegations. Angela understood why. A case intended to expose manufactured evidence could not afford to manufacture certainty of its own.
When Williams asked what made her think the raids were connected to Vision Heights, Angela placed Mrs. Carter's letters beside a map of the block. She traced the planned access corridor with one finger, then marked the location of every house whose owner had reported repeated police visits.
She showed the agents how Mrs. Carter's parcel interrupted the proposed route and how the Brooks home stood directly across the street. The map made no accusation by itself. It made the decisions behind the police deployment worth examining.
"Why would they send ten cruisers for you?" Torres asked.
"Because they wanted ten cruisers seen," Angela replied. "One officer at my door would have frightened me. Ten cars around my mailbox frightened everyone who lived there. If the point was to make the block feel unsafe, they accomplished that for at least a night."
Williams looked up. "That's a theory."
"Yes," Angela said. "I want you to find out whether it's true."
After the interview, the agents requested copies of the Martinez recordings and the other neighbor videos through Diana. They also contacted the court for the first search's supporting records and the second warrant's affidavit. A separate team reviewed the department's retention system and the status of the body-camera files identified by Delgado. The agents did not promise arrests or tell Marcus who might be a target. They explained that a criminal case had to be proved beyond anger, reputation, and coincidence.
Diana took the same position with the civil case. She advised the Brooks family to preserve their damage records, medical bills, lost work time, and expenses for temporary repairs, but not to inflate estimates because the violations felt enormous. Angela had no desire to exaggerate. The actual destruction was enough. Her medals could be restored, the glass replaced, and the walls patched. The memory of being forced to watch the destruction would require another kind of repair.