A Small-Town Cop’s Fight to Stop Angry Men With Guns From Killing Women

Feb 24 2020 by The Daily Beast

 
Annie Flanagan

At 27, Valerie Martinez had never known a life without fear. 

Her earliest memories were of hiding from her father in the tiny space between her daybed and the wall when he came home drunk and volatile. He once kicked Martinez’s sister so hard that she vomited, then threw her into the empty bathtub with a thud. He insulted their mother, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, with racist slurs and dared the children to contact the police when he beat her. “Call them,” he...

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