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"What is happening?" Jide asked. "What did I do?"

They ignored him and when he tried resisting, an officer kicked him behind his knees, rendering him to the floor.

"What? What is happening?" I asked, gingerly; the flurry of activities making me dizzy.

"Ma'am, you both would have to come with us to the station," one of the officers said.

"But we have a flight to catch," I responded.

"You would have to come with us, ma'am," he insisted and I obliged.

"Let him go. Uncuff him," I commanded.

"I am sorry ma'am but we can't. A hardened criminal like him should be chained too," the same man...