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At a time when we may properly condemn the left for using young children to advance a political agenda, it's unfortunate to watch a certain Virginia political campaign engage in those same tactics.
To be clear, a young activist, Jack Milligan has taken it upon himself to publish articles about a series of topics which he knows nothing about. I don't fault him for his eagerness to participate in political process, but I do fault him for his failure to vet the information he was given.
In this article, I'll address those arguments. But first, let's address the credibility gap. According to Jack's Facebook page, he started college this year in Maine. Yet his byline reads as follows: "Jack Milligan is a young professional and libertarian conservative from Central Virginia. His first involvement with politics came as a volunteer for the 2012 Ron Paul campaign. He currently works for a major financial institution in Richmond."
It's natural that Jack would seek to embellish his resumé – particularly given the categoricalness of his arguments – but after stripping away the rhinestones, we're left with little else. Let's consider the timing. Given his starting college this year, Jack is statistically likely to be between the ages of 17 and 19, which would mean that the only political experience listed (volunteering for Ron Paul) took place when he was 11-13 years old. Typically, political operatives highlight their most recent (and thereby most relevant) experience. Frankly – and those who know me best also know how hesitant I am to criticize a fellow Republican – I don't think Jack has any. In six years of working within Virginia's tight-knit political community, I've never heard of him. And neither have you.
But you've probably heard some of his arguments before – on Facebook, or if you're particularly well-connected, in the talking points file distributed by the Nick Freitas campaign. Hence why his arguments read more like an opposition research dump (e.g. the Steele Dossier), than as credible analysis. But rather than speculate as to the true author(s) of this material, this article will proceed under the assumption that the arguments published by Jack are his own.
Let's dissect them.
CLAIM #1: Corey Stewart sabotaged his own illegal immigration crackdown.
Here, Jack plays a young Rod Serling, introducing us to the dimension of imagination: an area which we call… "the Twilight Zone." Rather absurdly, Jack argues that "After Prince William implemented a series of new provisions designed to protect its citizens from illegal immigration in 2007…Almost immediately after he took over the office of Chairman, Stewart led the fight to weaken the county's immigration law."
As an exercise in absurdism, Jack would have you believe that (a) the illegal immigration crackdown happened before Corey became Chairman; and (b) Corey sabotaged the crackdown. There's a glaring problem with this line of argument: without Corey, there would have been no immigration crackdown. As Chairman of the Board of Supervisors (he was elected in 2006), Corey was the strongest advocate for the policy, and lined up the votes necessary to pass it.
Jack continues, citing to a Washington Post article, by claiming that Corey "voted to abolish a key part of Prince William's illegal-immigration policy that directed county police to question criminal suspects about their immigration status after they have been arrested[.]" Unfortunately, Jack forgot to actually read the article, which states that Corey (and the Board) voted to "direct[] police officers to question criminal suspects about their immigration status…after they have been arrested."
That being said, the policy was indeed changed — previously, no arrest was required at all – only detention, e.g., a Terry stop. But it wasn't an "Obama-administration directive" that made it impossible for Prince William County to maintain that original policy, but rather a series of court decisions and an impending lawsuit.
This is a great example of why actual knowledge of, and/or background in the subject matter is important for any opposition researcher.
CLAIM #2: Corey Stewart can't beat the Democrats because they'll tie him to Trump and the statutes.
We've all heard this argument before, but come on, Jack. Situational awareness is important. The democrats will tie any Republican to the statues and to Trump. We've entered a rage-driven political reality in which facts no longer matter to our opponents. Which candidate we run is irrelevant outside of maximizing Republican turnout — see, e.g., the "Gillespie Supporter Running Down Immigrant Children" ad.
CLAIM #3: Corey Stewart can't beat the Democrats because he lost a nominating contest.
Wait, what? First of all, despite Jack's claim that "Stewart has a gift for writing Democratic ads against him," the Democrats have never been able to beat Corey. One could argue that Corey gave the Democrats a boatload of ammunition by cracking down on illegal immigration in a majority-minority, majority-Democrat Northern Virginia county. Yet he was re-elected in 2007, and 2011 by increasing margins. And what happened in 2013? Corey lost a nominating contest. Yet Corey went on to beat the Democrats again in 2015.
Jack would have you believe that nominating contests are a litmus test of electability. Yet the last few tickets nominated by the Republican base have crashed and burned at the ballot box, because they couldn't turn out enough Republicans to vote. History demonstrates only that we have a penchant for nominating terrible candidates, and Jack would prefer to continue that trend than to try something different.
As for the general election, let's consider the electorate. The status quo leaves us at a slight disadvantage, but Virginia is still competitive. It's not a blue state, and most pundits would agree. So, how do we overcome that slight disadvantage?
First, we turn out the Trump base. Corey campaigned nonstop for Trump for a year, via radio and television interviews, knocking doors, organizing events, and speaking at rallies. The Trump grassroots knows him and supports him, and so too will the Trump voters – and nobody else has the background of supporting Trump necessary to pass the loyalty test of most new Trump voters.
Note: Jack attempts to throw water on Corey's fire by citing to Mark Lloyd and Mike Rubino's aggressive whining about how Corey supposedly hurt the campaign. Here's what hurt the campaign, from someone who worked directly with Mark and Mike for over a year: Mark's inability as campaign director to put together anything resembling a ground game, Mike ignoring his duties as senior strategist as he attempted to network in Trump world, and the gossip and infighting encouraged by those "top operatives in Virginia." I'm sure there are many other good reasons for why they were blacklisted by the administration even as Tucker Davis and Roger Jarrell went on to work in D.C., but that's none of my business.
Second, we turn out the Heritage vote, Virginia's "silent majority." Corey spent much of the governor's race building relationships with the SCV and other heritage groups, and they support him almost universally because they know he won't back down on protecting Virginia's history. No other candidate can hold a candle to that. The strength of these networks is evidenced by Corey's massive outperformance of Gillespie in Western and Southwestern Virginia, winning many counties with as much as 70% of the vote.
Finally, we cut our losses in Northern Virginia by mobilizing a predominantly pro-Corey electorate in Prince William County. No other Republican can replicate Corey's formula, which has enabled him to assemble a large coalition of voters, across partisan lines, through strong and effective leadership of Virginia's second-largest County.
If anyone has a better strategy, I'm all ears. But the notion that the Republican Party will win only by wooing independents, moderates, and centrists is dangerously naïve, as we saw in 2017. Times have changed, Jack. Learn before you lecture.
And now a final point. I find it deeply troubling that too often Virginia's Republican blogosphere operates as a purveyor of opposition research and tribalist rants. That this kind of stupidity is allowed a home is frankly mind-boggling and serves only to further exacerbate the tensions within the party, undermining our chances of victory in November.
That Jack is the youngest exhibit of this type of behavior, likely encouraged by a political campaign or candidate, is a sad reflection of where we are as a party.


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About the artist
Evert Nijland, born in 1971 is a Dutch artist who is most renowned as a jewellery designer.
Nijland attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute, both in Amsterdam from 1990-1995. He has been a guest lecturer at both.
Nijland is known for using materials such as silver, silk, glass, porcelain, wood and gems. Often there is a relationship with classic jewellery from the sixteenth and eightteenth century. Nijland loves the Rococo and Baroques styles.
His style can be characterised as using both traditional techniques and current digital methods to create referential jewels containing a contemporary paradox. In this, he steers away from the smooth Dutch style, which has dominated the last decades in the Netherlands.
Nijland has received several international awards and his work is in the permanent collections of public collectors including CODA Museum, (Apeldoorn, The Netherlands), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Schmuckmuseum (Pforzheim), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), and Museum of Arts and Design (New York).

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We did a self guided audio tour of the cell house. The tour brings you back to the past at the moment when the place was a prison. This period was only from 1933 to 1963. It was really interesting and we learned a lot about the history of The Rock.


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Quininae Ethylcarbonas. Quinine Ethylcarbonate.
Related entries: Quinine - Red Cinchona Bark
Quinine ethylcarbonate, C2H5CO3C20H23N2O, is prepared by the action of ethyl chloro-carbonate on quinine. It occurs in the form of white, slender, odourless, and almost tasteless, crystalline needles, or in masses of silky, acicular crystals, which are lighter than quinine sulphate. Quinine ethylcarbonate is also known under the trade-name Euchinin or Euquinine. The sulphuric or nitric acid solutions are as strongly fluorescent as the corresponding quinine solutions, but are much less bitter. Solutions of quinine ethylcarbonate yield the usual alkaloidal reactions. Melting-point, 95°; on ignition, it burns without leaving any residue. In its chemical behaviour quinine ethylcarbonate has a strong resemblance to quinine, having basic properties, turning red litmus blue, and forming crystalline salts with acids; it gives the thalleioquin reaction but not the Herapath reaction, and is more stable towards the action of light than quinine. On mixing about 2 decigrams of quinine ethylcarbonate with 2 to 3 mils Of sodium hydroxide solution, adding a fragment of iodine, and warming, a slight odour of iodoform is developed (showing presence of the ethyl group). The nitric acid solution is not affected by solution of silver nitrate or barium nitrate (absence of quinine hydrochloride, or sulphate, especially when taken in conjunction with absence of marked bitterness). Aristochin or Aristoquinine is the carbonic ester of quinine, a white almost tasteless powder, insoluble in water, containing 96 per cent. of quinine; dose, ½ to 2 decigrams (1 to 10 grains).
Sparingly soluble in water; easily soluble in alcohol, ether, or chloroform; soluble in acids, forming well-defined crystalline salts which are easily soluble in water.
Action and Uses.—Quinine ethylcarbonate is employed as It substitute for quinine sulphate or hydrochloride, on account of its freedom from taste, in whooping cough, influenza and malaria, especially in children. Solutions in acid or alcohol are much more bitter than the undissolved substance. It may be administered in powders, which are best given in milk , or in cachets.
Dose.—½ to 6 decigrams (1 to 10 grains).
The British Pharmaceutical Codex, 1911, was published by direction of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.


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Election Day
Nov 5th
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Tomorrow we get our biannual opportunity to change the makeup of those who serve us in Washington. However, perhaps more often than not, on this one day every two years, we vote for that person who seems to be the better of the two, but not necessarily the person we would really want to have.
Here at The Route Out, we have the means to impact who we have representing us every day of the year. We can create a world where every candidate running for office is a great choice, and our biggest problem is trying to figure out which of those two wonderful candidates we are going to finally choose.
All we as a people have to do is just create an environment and the expectation that those who run for office apply the basic common sense precepts of The Way to Happiness. If you look through the videos, it is hard to imagine that anyone fully apply those precepts wouldn't be someone really acting in the best interests of all of us. Perhaps that seems like a tall order to some to get to that point, and maybe it is, but this is a ball that can get rolling pretty quickly if we all just jump on board.
So be sure to vote tomorrow, and be sure to sign the petition. If as many people signed the The Route Out petition as those who voted, we'd be well on our way to having a government fulling operating on a good solid foundation of common sense!


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Wander the streets of London with this evocative blend. Through the fog, catch glimpses of grey buildings with traces of decades-old coal smoke, bustling markets with fresh-baked treats, sing-song flower sellers, and galleries of oil paintings.This sweet-smoky-floral blend is sure to intrigue your palate.
Strong enough for the addition of milk – an interesting, less-sweet twist on a London Fog tea latte or Earl Grey Cream.
Ingredients: Black Tea, rose petals, natural and artificial flavour, bergamot oil.
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One of my favorites Review by Buckey007
After reading all the comments I knew I had to try it for myself since there were such mixed reviews. Am I ever happy I did. What a beautiful tea. This is one of the teas that will always be stocked at my house. Thank you so much Murchie's. You've spoiled me, it's the only tea I purchase.Posted on 2022-08-13
Questionable Review by Victoria
I think this tea would be better without the vanilla which, for my taste, seems to interfere with the general overall flavor.Posted on 2022-07-22
Unexpected new fave Review by ['El']
I never thought I'd enjoy a tea that had smoky and rose notes, sounds like potpourri. Somehow they pull it off perfectly. I drink it with oat or pea milk and it's delicious. I don't taste the bergemont much but that's fine with me. I drink this every morning and it always lifts my dayPosted on 2021-12-04
Unfortunately, Nope for me too Review by ['Sabrina']
I was a little concerned when I saw the Lapsong in the ingredients, but want to try it. I have to agree with "Nope by Lisa" - too many competeing flavors. It honestly tastes, to me, like I grabbed some juniper berries out of my yard, crushed them and poured hot water over them. I'm disappointed, this is the only Murchie's tea that I absolutely won't be able to drink (but my mom likes Lapson, I'll send it to her), I actually dumped it out. This is not on Murchie's, as I said, I was concerned when I saw the Lapsong, I don't like smoky tea, but I tried it anyway. So, I would say, if you like smokey teas, this should be fine - I can't taste the bergamot over the smokey flavor. But it's definitely not one I'll ever order again.Posted on 2021-10-31
My new favourite tea Review by LM
I've never tasted anything like this tea. Although the flavours seem like they could be a strange combination, the balance is perfect and they really work together. It's a perfect afternoon pick-me-up and always cheers me up on a bad day. The kind of tea that makes you want to stop for a few minutes and just...appreciate it.Posted on 2021-10-26
Complex and balanced Review by Sherry
I generally don't like bergamot, being one of the rare people who doesn't enjoy Earl Gray, but any "perfumieness" is well balanced by the smokiness of Lapsang. It's truly the best of all worlds--if only Murchies would keep it in stock.Posted on 2021-06-26
Addictive and elegant Review by EV von Fleek
You'll either love or hate this one. It's an elegant blend that's difficult to describe. Since they've been out of this for some time, I've tried to make my own blend of Lapsang Souchong, Earl Grey, Vanilla and Canadian Maple (or maybe it's called Canadian Breakfast). At any rate, my version isn't quite right. I can't wait until this comes back in stock.Posted on 2021-05-21
Fantastic! Review by ['Troy']
Living in HK and Macau for a decade, I discovered and drank Lapsang Souchong as a go-to Saturday morning, Sunday morning, yum-cha regular. After moving to Vancouver in 2015 I discovered this in 2018, a fantastic blend to level out the lapsang, am disappointed we ran out 4 months ago and have not been able to purchase again since.Posted on 2021-04-17
Nope Review by ['Lisa']
I love most of the tea from Murchie's, but this one was a big nope for me. I am in no way opposed to complex flavour profiles, but the flavours in this tea were just an incredibly odd combination. It seemed like they were trying to blend too many strong yet opposing flavours and it just didn't work. The best way I can describe the flavour is musty old lady perfume. I see it got lots of good reviews so maybe I'm the odd one out!Posted on 2021-04-06
Favorite in our house Review by ['limeshot']
My 9 year old and I drink this most afternoons when we come home from school. It's his favorite tea hands down and it's always on my purchasing list when I put in a tea order. Please keep this tea forever!Posted on 2021-03-22
Amazing! Review by ['Helen']
I didn't know what to expect at first but quickly fell in love with this tea. I've always gravitated to smokey teas and can't get enough of this one.Posted on 2021-03-10
Terrific! Review by ['Hattie']
I love this tea! Wonderful aroma and flavour, lovely balance. Make some more, Murchies. I can't bear it that you haven't any available just now.Posted on 2021-02-09
Unique and nice Review by ['LwrightAK']
I was uncertain about this blend, especially after reading the extremely mixed reviews. I find it particularly appealing when I feel like drinking a tea that is a pick-me-up but that also brings unique qualities to a moment of relaxation and mindfulness. It's perfect for an early afternoon work break. The strong but not overwhelming smokiness is moderated by floral input from bergamot & roses. I drink it not overbrewed and with a splash of whole milk.Posted on 2020-12-06
Game changer! Review by ['Tam']
This tea changed the way I think, and drink about tea. It's so comforting.Posted on 2020-10-29
3/5 Review by Kendal
3/5 starsPosted on 2020-07-31
Yuck...not my cup of tea! Review by Rosie
Yuck...sounded so promising...smelt exotic...rose petals, bergamot.....pure yuck...dumped it, double bagged it....try storm watcher..it's amazing!Posted on 2020-06-20
My Favorite Review by Tamara
Smells like camping; I love it! Doesn't matter where or when I am - brew a cup, close my eyes, breathe deep and I'm somewhere else entirely. Brilliant tea, thank you!Posted on 2020-05-17
My Go To Cuppa Review by Kate
Don't let "smokey" and "rose" scare you away. The balance on this tea is superb and it has become my daily drinker. One of the best teas I've ever had, thanks Murchie's! Please, don't ever stop making it.Posted on 2020-05-07
Surprise! Review by Wes
I was a skeptic when I first saw it at the store. Rose petals? Really? But it is shockingly good! So many aromas and flavors; tea, earl gray, vanilla, lapsang, roses...but each one intertwines with the other and doesn't overwhelm. Reminds me of some of the more complicated teas I have had in Saint Petersburg...Posted on 2018-02-21
Unexpected Review by tleigh
This tea was so unexpected! It's smokey and smooth...and a completely new experience! I was instantly hooked and now I make a daily cold brew to enjoy during the work day. I cannot get enough...plus rose petals...I mean...talk about keeping it classy! I definitely get my "Emily Post" on when I sip this tea...pinkies out!Posted on 2017-02-28
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This rating method indicates the strength of flavour each tea has when brewed according to our brewing guide.
|Light/Delicate: Very light in colour and delicate in flavour
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We rate the flavour properties of our coffees along two dimensions: roast and body.
Roast is simply a result of how long and how hot the beans have been roasted, which can be seen in the colour of the finished bean, and typically results in general flavour traits:
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|Distinctive roasted flavour, sometimes notes of toasted sugar or charcoal
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If anyone tells you that the Church of England, or the Diocese of Winchester in particular, don't do change… DON'T believe them!
Today was Deacon's Day in the Diocese of Winchester, and despite what I'd been led to expect it was a really good day. I got to see friends, existing and yet to be, as we sat together as a cohort of 12 for the first time. Important information was made as fun as possible, and our Bishop didn't pull any punches in a seriously inspirational talk making quite plain what we were letting ourselves in for as far as being and ordained minister in the Diocese of Winchester is concerned. He was willing to make himself vulnerable to our sometimes searching questions, and very honest when the answer was 'we haven't got there yet' whilst giving us as much of the 'game plan' as he probably could. It was obvious, that if we're not up for 'living the mission of Jesus' now is definitely the time to say so, and take a step back. I remember being part of the Vacancy in See consultation a few years back and the whole of my group told the relevant folk that basically we wanted someone who would bring fresh ideas and a fresh way of doing things. We got exactly what we asked for, and now I get to help be part of the change, part of proving that the Church of England "aint'n't dead yet"!
We also got to meet the lovely Precentor Sue, newly installed last week at Winchester Cathedral. She and the Bishop hadn't had a chance to meet about this yet, so it was slightly like a game of tag. This was the point where we managed to get the Bishop's head in his hands, poor man. I almost felt sorry for him as conversations about robes and stoles got very silly in a variety of ways; apparently patent pink DMs aren't appropriate because pink is not a liturgical colour, and the laces would take too long to sort at the point in the service where the Bishop/s washes our feet!
Then I felt sorry for myself. I really must learn that if I'm going to be organised and efficient and get things done well in advance, I can expect to get my nicely laid plans well and truly shot out the water. Winchester has always (as far as I'm aware) have always ordained in white stoles, and as regular readers will be aware I've got my deeply significant ordination stole all finished and tucked away ready. Or at least I thought I had.
After they'd left us to the finer details of tat grants, the Bishop and Precentor had a little conversation, and the Bishop popped back in: were we up for being ordained in red stoles (signifying the Holy Spirit at Pentecost)?! Much excitement ensued from most, and in the end, I and two fellow early pre-planners, sort of gave a lopsided grin recognising that we'd be in danger of inhibiting change that signified the movement of the Holy Spirit if we didn't go with the idea. It wasn't like I'm not getting a red stole, and have a particular personal connection with Pentecost, and it IS a red letter day on 29th June (Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul), so… I told the Bishop I'd be 'fine about it in the morning' 🙂
So, after that snapshot of having to accept change when you've asked for it, Maggi Dawn gets me turning to Matthew 4:1-4 for tonight's Lent reflection: the devil tempting Jesus, who is fasting in the wilderness, to turn stones into bread.
My immediate thought is that it's not a rock that needs softening to feed our bodies, but our hearts that need softening to feed our souls, and the souls of others; we mustn't get ourselves set on there being only one way of doing things!!!
Maggi talks about a period of 40-somethings (days, years, whatever) signifying a concentrated period of preparation and transformation in Bible-speak (as per the Israelites wandering for 40 years in the desert). How long it was in reality might not involve the number 40, and that isn't actually a concern – the point of there being concentrated preparation and transformation is much more important. So like ordination training and formation then 😉
Maggi notes that the temptation with food whilst fasting emphasised Jesus was as human as you and I, and in turn emphasises our physical existence. I would add that this in turn emphasises that all that we are called to do can ONLY be done through the power of the Holy Spirit but that we need to know when it is appropriate to invoke God's power in this way.
And what better time to do that, than at an ordination service! Red stole it is then!!!
PS: Graham's blog for tonight is here.
PPS: Now very excited that I've realised that Canon Missioner to Exeter Cathedral and Diocese, Anna Norman-Walker is conducting our ordination retreat! At least I think that's what the Bishop said… (note to self, must listen better!)


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The April 11 shooting death of Daunte Wright highlights problems with police use of Tasers that have contributed to at least 500 deaths since 2010.
The fatal shooting this month of Daunte Wright by a Minnesota patrol officer who allegedly confused her pistol for a Taser had every appearance of a freak accident.
Tasers are designed as nonlethal weapons, a tool for law enforcement officers to safely subdue noncompliant suspects. Had officer Kim Potter drawn the intended weapon and tased Wright instead of shooting him, the 20-year-old Black man might be alive today.
Yet Potter's mistake was no anomaly.
It's part of a pattern of sloppy, reckless and deadly use of the weapon involved in hundreds of deaths and injuries in the past decade because of substandard or inconsistent training for law enforcement, an investigation by USA TODAY and the Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism at Indiana University found.
Officers in many cases defied best practices recommended by device manufacturers and sidestepped basic use-of-force protocols.
In July 2013, a Chicago police officer tased a pregnant woman three times – including once in the abdomen – after she pretended to use her cellphone to record authorities towing her van. She miscarried her baby.
Four years later, two Arlington, Texas, police officers fired a Taser at a 39-year-old suicidal man after watching him douse himself with gasoline. The electrical currents immediately set Gabriel Olivas aflame and burned down his house. Olivas died of his injuries a few days later.
Two years after that, Louisiana state troopers tased 49-year-old Ronald Greene at least three times in 20 seconds after he failed to stop his car for an unspecified traffic violation. Police initially told Greene's family he died from crash injuries. But a medical report noted that his bruised and bloodied body also had two Taser probes still lodged in his back.
Such incidents highlight a lack of uniform state or national standards for the use of conducted-energy weapons like Tasers and comprehensive training for the officers who wield them.
No federal agency tracks how many people are killed or seriously injured after Taser use by law enforcement officers, nor how many departments are equipped with the devices. And no one keeps tabs on how many law enforcement agencies adopt the dozens of safety guidelines recommended by device manufacturers and other police training organizations.
One of the few sources tracking fatalities is an online database started by a former newspaper editor.
Since 2010, there have been at least 513 cases in which subjects died soon after police used Tasers on them, according to fatalencounters.org. Examples from the data include a man who fell to the ground and hit his head after being tased and many more who die after losing consciousness, sometimes hours after they were tased. Because there's no government source for the data, the actual totals are undoubtedly higher, the website's founder said.
Reporters at USA TODAY and the Arnolt Center scoured hundreds of pages of arrest and court documents from Pennsylvania to California, interviewed dozens of attorneys, law enforcement and criminal justice experts, and analyzed scores of documents. Among the findings:
- In the absence of federal guidance, most decisions about Taser use and training are left to individual agencies. While some have adopted strict Taser policies and use-of-force reports, others give officers the tool without training. The result is a hodgepodge of guidelines with no outside oversight.
- Compared with firearms training, Taser instruction is treated as an afterthought in many departments and training academies. The Indiana Law Enforcement Academy, for example, does not include Taser training in its 16-week police cadet training curriculum. One suburban Philadelphia police department allowed virtually all its officers to carry Tasers with lapsed certifications.
- Taser-like devices are marketed as a less-lethal option for emergency self-defense and preventing harm. But police have been accused of using them as punishment, repeatedly firing 50,000 volts of electricity into people when there is no apparent imminent threat of harm, temporarily paralyzing the nervous system and muscles.
- Four of five cases that ended in death began as calls for nonviolent incidents, and 84% were unarmed. In cases where race could be determined, Black people accounted for nearly 40% of those killed, about three times their share of the U.S. population.
"Mistakes happen," said Maria Haberfeld, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. "But if mistakes happen over and over, they are not necessarily mistakes."
Law enforcement and device manufacturers argue that Tasers and similar weapons have saved more lives than they've ended since law-enforcement agencies started using them more than two decades ago.
When used properly, such devices allow police officers to bring under control threatening and unruly subjects without the need for deadly force or physical restraint maneuvers, supporters say. They minimize the risk of harm to suspects and officers.
While no reliable data exists on how often law enforcement uses weapons like Tasers, a 2011 Department of Justice report cited survey-based studies that put the risk of death from the devices at less than 0.25%, or 1 in 400.
"When you can use the Taser to stop a threat, that brings them home safely and brings the officer home safely," said Sgt. Chad Parks, a 21-year veteran with the Plainfield Police Department in Indiana. "They're not there for punishment."
Members of the public also support the use of Tasers. After the fatal shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., a Black man, by Philadelphia police last year, Wallace's family called on the city to equip more officers with Tasers, saying he could still be alive had the officers who responded to his mental health crisis carried them.
Yet there's "no evidence" that Tasers reduce police use of firearms, according to a 2018 University of Chicago study that also found the devices had no impact on injury rates or the number of injuries in civilians. They did, though, reduce the rate of police injury.
Some experts suggest Taser's reputation as a "less lethal" weapon may give officers a false sense of security.
"It's not like a nightstick where you can control it," said William McKnight, a former police officer and visiting criminal justice professor at Stockton University in New Jersey. "Once you fire it, it's gone."
Is police training adequate?
The company behind the best-known and most widely used conducted-energy weapon sold its first Taser to police in Florida in 1998.
The technology had been around for more than 20 years by then but was slow to catch on because the original version used darts propelled by gunpowder, so the weapon was treated like a firearm under the law.
Jack Cover, an aerospace scientist working with Taser International Inc., modified the weapon in 1993 so it was powered by compressed nitrogen, allowing Tasers to be more widely marketed, according to his 2009 New York Times obituary.
That same year, New Jersey became the last state to authorize the use of Taser-like weapons for law enforcement. They are now legal to sell and own in at least 46 states and Puerto Rico.
In an email response to questions, the company – which changed its name to Axon Enterprises in 2017 – disputed the number of deaths "causally related to the use of Taser." Axon put the total at 26 since the device was developed, with most deaths occurring from falls and fires.
Where an allegation of a "Taser-related" death occurs, the most common causes are drug intoxication and heart disease, the company said.
Axon said training should include "both Axon Academy training, where users gain the knowledge necessary for the appropriate use of Taser energy weapons, as well as practical and scenario-based training, which helps develop important skills for a successful deployment in the field."
But Taser training is too often cursory, use-of-force experts said. They described most departments' enforcement of guidelines as weak, outdated and sometimes contradictory to established best practices.
Taser training primarily focuses on how to operate the weapon, which is not good enough, said Lon Bartel, a Taser master trainer and director of training and curriculum for VirTra, an Arizona-based company that uses virtual reality to replicate real-life scenarios for law enforcement officers.
"You don't just draw your Taser and fire," he said. "Sometimes it's the right tool, and sometimes it's not."
Fewer than 1 in 3 officers have been trained in how to switch from a Taser to a firearm and vice versa as the situation changes, Bartel said.
Guidelines and warnings ignored
As early as 2005, the Police Executive Research Forum, a national nonprofit policy organization, issued 52 guidelines calling for tighter restrictions on the use of Taser-like devices, including barring use on passive or fleeing subjects, barring use by multiple officers on a single person, and requiring mandatory safety training.
But the group cannot force adoption of its guidelines and said it doesn't know how many of the 18,000 U.S. law enforcement agencies have done so.
The same is true when Axon urges changes in how its weapons are used.
For example, the company in 2009 urged officers to carry Tasers on the "weak draw" side of the gun belt to reduce the risk of pulling the wrong weapon. Since 2001, police officers have confused Taser-like devices with their service weapons at least 16 times, USA TODAY has found. Four instances ended in death, including Daunte Wright.
Yet the Roeland Park Police Department in Kansas did not update its use-of-force policy to reflect Axon's recommended change until three days after Wright's April 11 shooting death in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.
Brooklyn Center's use-of-force policy required weak-draw Taser placement at the time of Wright's death. The city's police chief, Tim Gannon, said in a news conference this month that Potter was trained to carry her sidearm on the right side of her duty belt and her Taser on the left.
Axon also has issued warnings since at least 2017 that repeated Taser hits increase the risk for serious injury and death.
But a lawsuit claims those warnings were ignored by the Wilson, Oklahoma, Police Department, whose use-of-force policy did not prohibit repeated Taser strikes when two officers killed 28-year-old Jared Lakey in July 2019.
The officers fired their Tasers 53 times over nine minutes at the unarmed and naked man as he lay on the ground, according to the lawsuit. Lakey died two days later. The former officers face charges of second-degree murder.
In California, Taser training is not mandated as part of minimum police cadet training requirements. That's a major concern to Randy Shrewsberry, executive director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform in Los Angeles and a former police officer, who fears without proper training officers may turn to Tasers in circumstances when minimal or no force would have been sufficient.
"We encourage lawmakers to not only evaluate the minimal training requirements that are offered but examine data for the efficacy of reducing deadly encounters," he said.
The Iowa chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union shared similar concerns after finding a "profound variation and lack of consistency in regulating officer's behavior" among Taser policies for the state's 99 sheriff offices in an analysis released in 2014. The ACLU's efforts to push for legislation on statewide requirements was never acted upon.
Without a comprehensive approach, proficiency with the weapon, like any practical skill, rapidly deteriorates, said Von Kleim, a use-of-force trainer and spokesman for the Force Science Institute in Minnesota.
In New Hope, Pennsylvania, police officers fired Tasers six times between 2008 and 2019. On one of those occasions, a 33-year veteran officer shot and seriously injured a 38-year-old man during a scuffle in a department holding cell after confusing his Taser with his service weapon.
The New Hope officer, Cpl. Matt Zimmerman, was trained and certified only once on how to use the device – 11 years earlier – despite a 2007 department policy requiring annual Taser retraining.
Zimmerman, 65, had never used the device in his job before March 3, 2019, according to department records. All but two New Hope officers had lapsed Taser certifications, some for as long as Zimmerman.
At least three times, officers with lapsed Taser certification fired the weapons in the field.
New Hope Police Department holding cell video of March 2019 shooting (Warning: Graphic content)
Bucks County District Attorney's Office, Bucks County Courier Times
Tasers as punishment
According to criminal justice experts, Tasers are deployed too often under circumstances when no danger or physical resistance exists.
In 4 out of every 5 cases that ended with a Taser-related death in the past decade, officers were responding to a nonviolent incident, according to the Fatal Encounters database. Eighty-four percent of the victims were unarmed at the time.
In one such encounter from 2019, a National City, California, police officer fired a Taser five times within a minute at an unarmed 61-year-old man who was slow to comply with officers' instructions, police body camera footage shows. The man died 16 days later.
In another incident six years earlier, Worth County, Iowa, sheriff's deputies fired two Tasers at least 15 separate times to subdue a 39-year-old man who was lying on his back and did not roll over as instructed. The man later died.
The ACLU has documented a pattern of police misuse of Tasers, including against children, pregnant women, people who suffer from mental illness and people passively resisting police commands. And in 2007, the United Nations declared Tasers a tool of torture.
"A Taser shouldn't be used if there are four cops (surrounding a suspect) – you grab him," said Peter Moskos, a former Baltimore Police officer who now chairs the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
A disproportionate number of the victims in these Taser-related deaths were Black, the data show.
In incidents where race was determined, African Americans accounted for 39% of the Taser-related deaths since 2010, even though they comprise just 13% of the population.
That's higher than the rate of Black people killed by firearms and all other police encounters, which the data shows at 26%.
In the case of Ronald Greene, Louisiana state troopers tased the Black man almost immediately after telling him to put his arms behind his back, said attorney Lee Merritt, who is representing Greene's estate in a federal wrongful death suit.
Authorities have not publicly released body camera footage of the incident, but they allowed Merritt and Greene's family to watch it with Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards.
It shows Greene exiting his car with his hands up, saying, "I'm sorry" before he was tased, Merritt said. It also shows troopers tasing Green again as he lay on his belly and later hog-tied, shackled, beaten and dragged.
"It was brutal. It was one of the worst videos that I have ever seen," Merritt said. "The video tells us there was no need for tasering and that tasing was contributory to his ultimate death."
Accountability and solutions
With heightened scrutiny of police after a tumultuous year marked by high-profile, officer-caused fatalities like that of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, experts believe the time is ripe for Taser reforms.
In March, Utah enacted a new law requiring law enforcement officers to file a report every time they point a Taser-like weapon at someone.
No other state's legislature has introduced proposals to regulate police use of those weapons last year or so far this year, according to a review of the National Conference of State Legislatures database.
Later this year, a more restrictive use-of-force policy will take effect in New Jersey. It emphasizes de-escalation and other techniques to avoid police use of force. Among the changes is limiting Taser use only to subjects actively threatening harm or engaged in an assault.
The state will also start collecting data on all less-lethal device use, applying some of the same scrutiny to Tasers that guns now receive.
New Jersey already has what are widely considered the strictest device regulations for police use in the country. The state requires a "robust" investigation of police Taser deployments, including a review by the county prosecutor's office, and, if the deployment is problematic, the attorney general's office. New Jersey policing agencies have reported an average of 40 Taser deployments a year among law enforcement between 2013 and last year.
Other agencies have updated their policies after fatal events.
After the Arlington, Texas, police officers set a gasoline-soaked Olivas on fire with their Tasers, the agency banned use of the device on people who may be resisting arrest but show no signs they intend to harm officers or others.
The department previously had left it to officers' discretion whether to use the device in the presence of flammable liquid or fumes, according to a lawsuit filed by Olivas' widow.
"Our officers had become more reliant on discharging the Taser versus going hands-on," said Kevin Kolbye, Arlington's assistant police chief.
Arlington also created a unit to review all use-of-force incidents and ensure policies are aligned with industry best practices and current court rulings.
And two years ago it started separately tracking the number of times its officers drew and pointed a Taser – even when the device was not fired. Kolbye credited the policy changes with reducing Taser use by 25%.
In New Hope, the 2019 Taser-confusion incident prompted Police Chief Michael Cummings to make immediate and long-term reforms within the department.
Among them was a move to obtain Pennsylvania Law Enforcement Accreditation, a standard met by just 1 in 10 of the state's 1,300 police departments that will build more accountability over the department's actions by constantly reviewing, updating and meeting best-practice models.
Protests break out in Minnesota after a Black man was shot by police during a traffic stop
Staff video, USA TODAY
Police reform experts said agencies shouldn't wait until tragedy strikes to adopt tougher standards.
"We need to put everything on the table now," said Brian Higgins, a former Bergen County, New Jersey, police chief who's now a criminal justice instructor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
Higgins also suggests that now is the time device manufacturers consider a redesign, perhaps by removing its handle and trigger firing mechanism, which act like a firearm that police are trained to automatically draw with little thought.
"The (firearms) training is ingrained in their memory and muscle memory is use of a firearm," he said. "Maybe it's just too close."
Contributing: Taylor Killough, Laura Gerber, Ben Price, Brianna Lanham, Alyssa White, Sofia Goldstein, Rachel Van Voorhis, Lily Wray, Nadia Scharf, Drake Garbacik, Nathan Moore, Alyssa Velez, Payton Romans and Marin Pisani of the Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism at Indiana University


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Chapter One
She had purposely chosen a seat near the back of the classroom in order to study him without being obvious. It was remarkable how unchanged he was. Physically, the ten years since they'd seen one another had enhanced his masculine appeal. During his twenties he had held the promise of being a magnetic, virile man; in his thirties that promise had been realized.
Shelley's pen scratched across her tablet as she took notes on his lecture. This was only the second week of the fall semester, but he was already well into the topics he wanted to cover before the final exams just before Christmas. He held the class's rapt attention.
The political-science courses were conducted in one of the oldest buildings on campus. Its ivy-covered walls suggested a prestigious East Coast university rather than a college located in a northeastern Oklahoma township. The age of the building, its pleasantly creaking hardwood floors, and high-ceilinged, hushed hallways lent it a sedate atmosphere that appealed to the prelaw students.
The instructor, Grant Chapman, was propped against the desk at the front of the classroom. The desk was solid oak. It had survived over thirty years of professors leaning against it and bore its years well.
As did the man, Shelleythought. Mr. Chapman was as muscularly solid as he had been ten years before. Many a young heart had fluttered when he played on the faculty basketball team against the varsity. Wearing basketball trunks and a tank top, Grant Chapman had rendered the girls of Poshman Valley High School breathless. Shelley Browning included. Ten years had only honed those sleek muscles to a mature strength.
Silver now threaded the dark hair that was just as carelessly styled as it had been then. There had been a stringent rule against long hair at Poshman Valley High School, and the handsome young civics teacher had been one of its most frequent violators.
Shelley could vividly remember the day she'd first heard of Grant Chapman.
"Shelley, Shelley, wait until you see the dreamy new government teacher!" It was enrollment day after summer vacation. Her friend's face was flushed with excitement as she ran up to greet Shelley with the news. "We have him second period and he's absolutely beautiful. And he knows that when you talk about Chicago you're not talking about a city in Illinois. He's young! Government's going to be a gas," the girl had squealed, running off to inform someone else of their good fortune. "Oh, and his name is Mr. Chapman," she had called over her shoulder.
Shelley now listened to the deep resonance of his voice as he answered a question from a student. But his thorough answer didn't register any more than had the question asked him. Shelley was concentrating only on his voice. Leaning over her desk and unobtrusively closing her eyes, she remembered the first time she had heard those low, well-modulated tones.
"Browning, Shelley? Are you here?"
Her heart had plummeted to her feet. No one wanted to be called on the very first day back to school. Twenty pairs of curious eyes were riveted on her. She raised a trembling hand. "Yes, sir."
"Miss Browning, you've already lost your gym shorts. You may pick them up in the girls' locker room office. Miss Virgil sent a note."
The class broke up and there were several catcalls and whistles. She stammered a thank-you to the new teacher, her cheeks flaming scarlet. He'd think she was a ninny. Funny, his opinion had meant more to her then than had that of her peers.
As she filed out of class that day he had stopped her at the door. "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you," he said apologetically. Her girl friends were standing by, wide-eyed and envious.
"That's all right," Shelley had said timidly.
"No, it's not. You get five grace points on the first exam."
She had never gotten those five extra points because she made a one hundred on the first exam and on most of them after that. Government was her favorite subject that semester.
"Are you talking about before Vietnam or after?" Mr. Chapman was currently asking the student who had inquired about the influence of public opinion on presidential decisions.
Shelley shifted back to the present. He'd never remember "Browning, Shelley" and her lost gym shorts. She doubted if he'd remember at all those four brief months he'd taught at Poshman Valley High School. Surely not after all he'd been through. One didn't climb up through the ranks of Congress to become a valuable senatorial aide by being sentimental. One didn't survive the public scandal Grant Chapman had survived by dwelling on incidents that had happened years earlier in a small farming community that played such an insignificant role in his colorful life.
Maybe that was why he seemed so unchanged to her.
She had seen him on television often when reporters were still hounding him for a comment on the scandal that had rocked Washington society. She had studied the pictures of him accompanying the newspapers' headline accounts. Unflattering as newspaper pictures usually were, she could see no deterioration in the face that had emblazoned itself on her mind and refused, even after ten years, to be dismissed.
Shelley was sure he wouldn't know her. At sixteen she had been coltishly slender. No less svelte now, she was softer, rounder, fuller in a very feminine way. The years had melted away the childish plumpness in her face to leave behind an interesting bone structure. High cheek-bones accentuated her smoke-blue eyes.
Gone were the long bangs that had characterized her schoolgirl hairstyle. Now her hair was swept back to show her finely arched brows and heart-shaped hairline. A true brunette, she was blessed with richly textured hair that fell over her shoulders like dark wine with sunlight shimmering through it.
Gone was the round-cheeked girl in cheerleader's uniform. Gone also was the innocence, the idealism. The woman was all too aware of the world and its selfishness and injustice. Grant Chapman knew something of that, too. They weren't the same people they had been ten years before, and she asked herself for the thousandth time why she had signed up for his class.
"Consider President Johnson's position at that time," he was saying.
Shelley glanced down at her watch. Only fifteen minutes of the class remained and she had taken exactly two lines of notes. If she weren't careful, she wouldn't excel in this class as she had in the government class that first semester of her junior year.
She recalled a cold windy day after that season's first norther.
"Would you consider helping me grade papers a few afternoons a week?" he had asked.
She was wearing her current boyfriend's letter jacket and her hands were tightly balled into fists inside the deep pockets. Mr. Chapman had stopped her in the courtyard between the gym and the classroom building.
His collar-length hair, a shade too long to meet the code, was whipping wildly around his head. Wearing only his sportcoat, he was hunched against the north wind.
"Of course if you'd rather not, just tell" "No, no," she rushed to say and licked her lips, hoping they weren't chapped and dry-looking. "Yes, I'd like to. If you think I can."
"You're my champion student. That was a super report you did on the judicial system."
"Thank you." She was flustered and wondered why her heart was pounding so. He was just a teacher. Well, not just a teacher.
"If you can grade the objective parts of the tests, I'll read the essays. It'll save me hours of time in the evenings."
She had wondered then what he did in the evenings. Did he see a woman? That had been the topic of speculation at many a slumber party. She'd never seen him in town with anyone.
One night when her family had gone to the Wagon-wheel steak house to eat dinner he was there. Alone. When he'd spoken to her, she'd nearly died. She stumbled through introductions to her parents and he'd stood up to shake hands with her father. After they were seated her little brother had spilled his milk and she could have gladly strangled him. When she hazarded a glance toward Mr. Chapman's table, he had left.
"Okay. What days?"
He squinted his eyes against the sunlight, which was bright in spite of the cold. She could never quite decide if his eyes were gray or green or somewhere in between, but she liked the way his dark lashes curled up when his eyes were narrowed that way. "You tell me." He laughed.
"Well, I have cheerleading practice on Thursday because of the pep rallies on Fridays." Stupid! He knows when the pep rallies are. "I take piano on Tuesday." What does he care, Shelley? "I guess Monday and Wednesday would be best."
"That'll be fine," he said. "Whew, it's cold. Let's get inside."
She had nearly tripped over her own stumbling feet when he unexpectedly took her elbow and escorted her to the door of the building. By the time the metal door clanged shut behind them, she thought she might very well faint because he'd touched her. She never told any of her girl friends about that. At the time, it was too precious a secret to tell.
The afternoons spent quietly in his classroom became the pivot around which the rest of her life revolved. She agonized on the days she didn't go, and she agonized on the days she did until the last bell of the day rang. She tried not to rush through the emptying halls to his classroom, but was often breathless when she arrived. Sometimes he wasn't there, but had left her a stack of papers with instructions. She went about grading her classmates' work with a diligence she'd never applied to anything else in her life. Often when he joined her, he'd bring her a soda.
One day as she sat checking the papers with the red pencil he'd given her, he stood up from his desk, where he was reading through an indecipherable composition. He peeled the V-necked sweater he wore over his head. "I think they've got the heat too high in here. This school isn't doing its part to conserve energy."
At the time, she couldn't even admire his patriotic conscientiousness, for she was dazzled by him. He linked his fingers, turned his hands outward and stretched his arms high over his head, arching his back. She was spellbound by the play of muscles under his soft cotton shirt. He released his breath in a healthy sigh as he lowered his arms and rolled his shoulders in an effort to relax them.
Shelley dropped the red pencil, her fingers suddenly useless. Had her skin not been holding her together, she thought she would have melted over the desk. She became aware of a stifling heat that had nothing to do with the thermostat on the wall.
She left his classroom that day bewildered. Much as she wanted to be near him, she suddenly felt compelled to escape. But there was no escaping this assault on her emotions because the tumult was within herself. It was totally new and different and nothing in her dating experiences had prepared her for it. She couldn't identify it then. Only later, when she was older, was she able to define what she had felt that afternoon: desire.
During those days of late fall, he never treated her with anything but open friendliness. When her boyfriend picked her up after football practice to drive her home in his reconditioned Cougar, Mr. Chapman called, "Have fun," to them as they left.
"Before next session you might want to read the first three chapters of the textbook. It's boring as hell, but it will give you good background information."
Shelley was yanked out of her revery by his words. He had one hip hitched over the edge of the desk, a posture that blatantly declared his sex. Shelley doubted that any woman in the room was immune to his overwhelming sexuality. A woman would have to be blind or senile not to be affected, and glancing around, Shelley saw none that fit that description.
Rather, she saw that the female members of the class were all in their late teens or early twenties. High firm breasts jutted braless under T-shirts, and well-shaped, athletic thighs were encased in tight designer jeans. There were skeins of long carelessly styled hair in varying shades of brown, auburn, and gold. She felt old and dowdy by comparison.
As you are, Shelley, she reminded herself. She was wearing a sweater, cranberry in color, and she wore a bra beneath it. The sweater matched her textured hose and complemented the mid-calf-length gray wool skirt. At least she knew how to dress fashionably and wasn't consigned to the polyester setyet.
At twenty-six she was second oldest in the class. A serious gray-haired gentleman was seated in the front row. He had taken copious notes while the young man in the cowboy hat sitting next to Shelley had peacefully napped during the entire hour.
"Good-bye," Mr. Chapman said when the bell rang. "Oh yes, would Mrs. Robins please stop by the desk?" History was repeating itself.
Shelley all but dropped the armload of books she was gathering up when he made his request. Less interested than the classmates at Poshman Valley had been, the forty or so other students filed out of the classroom, most of them intent on lighting up their first cigarette in over an hour.
Head down, she concentrated on weaving her way through the maze of desks, less ordered than the neat rows in his classroom ten years ago. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the last student leave the room. Negligently he let the door close solidly behind him. She stifled the insane impulse to ask him to please leave it open.
When she was a few feet away from his desk, when she had run out of excuses not to look at him, she lifted the screen of dark lashes from her eyes and met Grant Chapman's gaze fully for the first time in ten years.
"Hello, Shelley."
She gasped. Or at least she felt the soft gasp rise to her throat and only hoped later that she had caught it in time. "Hello, Mr. Chapman."
A chuckle formed in his throat, but he, too, stopped it before it made a sound. His wide, sensually molded lips smiled easily, but his eyes were busy taking an inventory of her face. They took note of her hair, the unknowingly vulnerable eyes, the slender elegance of her nose, her lips. He studied her lips for a long time, and when her tongue came out nervously to moisten them, she cursed it for doing so.
It was dangerously still and quiet in the room. He had come away from the desk to stand directly in front of her. He had always seemed so overwhelmingly tall. Not frighteningly so, but protectively so.
"I... I didn't think you'd know me."
"I knew you the first day you came to class." Standing close like this, his voice sounded huskier. When he projected it during one of his lectures, it lost the intimate pitch that was now wreaking havoc on her equilibrium. "I was starting to wonder if you were going to go through the entire semester without even saying hello."
Ten years of maturity were swept away by his gentle teasing and she felt as young and callow as the first day she met him.
"I didn't want to embarrass you by speaking and having you struggle to remember me. That would have put you in an awkward position."
"I appreciate your concern, but it was unnecessary. I remember you well." He continued to peruse her face analytically and she wondered if he thought the years had embellished or detracted from her features. She herself didn't feel that she had become less attractive or more so; she only knew she was different from the girl who had so painstakingly graded his papers.
Had he known about her infatuation for him? Had he discussed it with a lady friend? "You should see her, sitting there so prim and proper, her hands perspiring. Every time I move, she jumps like a scared rabbit." She imagined him shaking his head ruefully and laughing.
He routed her out of her unpleasant musing by speaking her name as though he'd had to repeat it several times.
"Yes?" she asked breathlessly. Why was oxygen suddenly so scarce?
"I asked how long you've been Mrs. Robins."
"Oh, uh, seven years. But then I haven't been Mrs. Robins for two years."
His brows, which were a trifle shaggy and thoroughly masculine, lifted in silent query.
"It's a long, boring story." She glanced down at the toe of her flat-heeled cordovan shoe. "Dr. Robins and I parted company two years ago. That's when I decided to go back to school."
"But this is an undergraduate course."
Had any other man worn jeans and western boots with a sportcoat he would have looked as though he were imitating a film star, but Grant Chapman looked absolutely devastating. Did it have anything to do with the open throat of his plaid cotton shirt, which revealed a dark wedge of chest hair?
She forced her eyes away from it to answer him. "That's what I am. An undergraduate, I mean." She had no idea how delectable her mouth looked when she smiled naturally. For the last few years smiles hadn't come easily. But when they did, the weariness that had been etched on her face by unhappiness was relieved, and her lips tilted at the corners and were punctuated with shallow dimples.
Grant Chapman seemed intrigued by those indentations at either side of her mouth. It took him a long time to reply. "I would have thought that since you were such a good student, you would have gone to college as soon as you graduated from Poshman Valley."
"I did. I went to the University of Oklahoma, but..." She glanced away as she remembered her first semester in Norman and how meeting Daryl Robins had changed the course of her life. "Things happen," she finished lamely.
"How are things in Poshman Valley? I haven't been back since I left. God, that's been..."
"Ten years," she supplied immediately and then wanted to bite her tongue. She sounded like a good little girl giving her teacher the correct answer. "Something like that," she added with deliberate casualness.
"Yes, because I went to Washington directly from there. I left before the year was up."
Self-defensively she averted her eyes. The next hour of afternoon classes must have begun. Only a few students drifted by on the sidewalks outside the multipaned windows.
She couldn't talk about his leaving. He wouldn't remember, and she had tried for ten years to forget. "Things in Poshman Valley never change. I get back fairly often to see my folks. They still live there. My brother is teaching math and coaching football at the junior high."
"No kidding!" He laughed.
"Yes. He's married and has two children." She adjusted her armload of heavy books into a more comfortable position against her breasts. When he saw the gesture, he leaned forward to take them from her and set them on the desk behind him. That left her without anything to do with her hands, so she folded them awkwardly across her waist, hoping he wouldn't guess how exposed she felt.
"Do you live here in Cedarwood?"
"Yes. Since I'm going to school full-time, I rented a small house."
"An older one?" "How did you know?"
"There are a lot of them here. It's a very quaint little town. Reminds me of Georgetown. I lived there the last few years I was in Washington."
"Oh." She felt terribly gauche. He had hobnobbed with the elite, the beautiful, the powerful. How provincial she must seem to him.
She made a move to retrieve her books. "I don't want to keep you"
"You're not. I'm finished for the day. As a matter of fact, I was going to get a cup of coffee somewhere. Would you join me?"
Her heart pounded furiously. "No, thank you, Mr. Chapman, I"
His laughter stymied her objection. "Really, Shelley, I think you can call me by my first name. You're not in high school any longer."
"No, but you're still my teacher," she reminded him, slightly perturbed that he had laughed at her.
"And I'm delighted to be. You decorate my classroom. Now more than ever." She wished he had kept laughing. That was easier to handle than his intent scrutiny of her features. "But, please, don't categorize me as a college professor. The word 'professor' conjures up a picture of an absentminded old man with a headful of wild white hair searching through the pockets of his baggy tweed coat for the eyeglasses perched on top of his head."
She laughed easily. "Maybe you should try teaching creative writing. That was a very graphic word picture you painted."
"Then you get my point. Make it Grant, please." "I'll try," was all she would promise. "Try it out."
She felt like a three-year-old about to recite "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for the first time. "Really, I" "Try it," he insisted.
"Very well." She sighed. "Grant." The name came more easily to her tongue than she had imagined. In all her fantasies over the past ten years, had she called him by his first name? "Grant, Grant," she repeated.
"See? See how much better that is? Now, how about coffee? You don't have another class do you? Even if you do, you're late, so..."
Still she hesitated. "I don't"
"Unless you'd rather not be seen with me." His change of tone brought her eyes flying up to his. The words had been spoken quietly, but there was a trace of bitterness lying just below the surface.
She caught his meaning instantly. "You mean because of what happened in Washington?" When he answered by silently piercing her with those gray-green eyes, she shook her head vehemently. "No, no, of course not, Mr....Grant. That has nothing to do with it."
She was touched that his relief was so apparent. "Good." He raked strong, lean fingers through his hair. "Let's go for coffee."
Had the look in his eyes and that boyishly vulnerable gesture not compelled her to go with him, the urgency behind his words would have. "All right," she heard herself say before a conscious decision was made.
He smiled, turned to pick up her stack of books and his own folder of notes, and propelled her toward the door. When they reached it, he leaned across her back to switch off the lights. She was aware of his arm resting fleetingly on her back and held her breath.
For an instant, his hand closed around the base of her neck before sliding to the middle of her back. Though the gesture was nothing more than common courtesy, she was acutely aware of his hand through the knit of her sweater as they walked across the campus.
Hal's, that microcosm of society that is on every college campus in the country, was noisy, smoky, crowded. Neil Diamond was lamenting his loneliness from the speakers strategically embedded in the ceiling. Waiters with red satin armbands on their long white sleeves were carrying pitchers of draft beer to cluttered tables. Students of every description, from preppies and sorority girls to bearded intellectuals to muscled jocks, were smelted together in convivial confusion.
Grant took her arm and steered her to a relatively private table in the dim far corner of the tavern. Having secured them their seats, he leaned across the table and said in a stage whisper, "I hope I don't have to show my I.D." At her puzzled frown he explained, "I don't think anyone over thirty would be welcomed in here." Then, at her laughing expression, he clapped his hand to his forehead, "By God, you're not even thirty, are you? Why do I suddenly feel more and more like our white-haired, doddering professor?"
When the waiter came whizzing by, Grant slowed him long enough to call, "Two coffees."
"Cream?" the fleeing waiter asked over his shoulder. "Cream?" Grant asked her. She nodded. "Cream," he shouted to the waiter. "You weren't even old enough to drink coffee the last time I saw you, were you?" he asked her.
Not really listening to his question, she shook her head. She was having a hard time keeping herself from staring at him. His hair was attractively windblown. The open "V" of his shirt continued to bemuse her. Daryl Robins had thought himself the epitome of masculinity, yet his chest had had only a sprinkling of pale hair in the center, while this was a veritable forest growing from darkly tanned skin. An urge to reach out and touch it with her fingertips was so powerful, she looked away.
One glance around the room confirmed what she had suspected. Coeds were eyeing Grant with the unconcealed sexual interest of the modern woman. She was the subject of their cool appraisal. Grant Chapman was a celebrity in a notorious, dangerous way, with the kind of reputation no woman could resist being curious about. Shelley had tried to ignore the ripple of attention that their arrival had created, but the bold stares being directed toward them now were most disconcerting.
"You get used to it," he said softly after a moment. "Do you?"
"No, you don't really get used to it, you just learn to live with it and ignore it if you can." He twirled a glass ashtray on the highly glazed wooden tabletop. "That's only one consequence of having your face in the news every day for several months. Whether you're the good guy or the bad guy, the culprit or the victim, guilty or innocent, notoriety shadows you. Nothing you do is private anymore."
She didn't say anything until after the harried waiter had served them their coffee. Shelley stirred cream into her cup and said gently, "They'll get accustomed to seeing you around. News that you'd be joining the faculty this fall spread through the campus like wildfire last spring. Once you're here for a while, the excitement will die down."
"My classes filled up quickly. I don't find that flattering. I realize most of the students who registered for them did so out of curiosity. I saw the cowboy sitting next to you sleeping today."
She smiled, glad that he didn't have that intense, guarded expression on his face any longer. "I don't think he appreciated the finer points of your lecture."
Grant returned her smile briefly and then gazed at her earnestly, searching the depths of her eyes with an intensity that made her quail. "Why did you take my class, Shelley?"
She looked down into her coffee; then, thinking that silence would incriminate her, she said spiritedly, "Because I needed the credit."
He ignored her attempted levity. "Were you a curiosity seeker, too? Did you want to see if I'd grown horns and a long tail since you'd seen me?"
"No," she cried softly. "Of course not. Never."
"Did you want to see if I'd remember you?" He was leaning forward now, his forearms propped against the edge of the table. The distance between them was visibly decreased, but rather than shrinking from him, she felt an irresistible urge to move closer still.
"I... I guess I did. I didn't think you would remember. It's been so long and"
"Did you want to see if I remembered the night we kissed?"
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