Behind the Badge: A Police Wife Survives Blue Against Blue
Yesterday I watched the news from Minneapolis — a woman killed by ICE. It was shameful. A blight on our history. The explanations offered did not reconcile with what people saw on camera. I thought: that could have been me. A few years earlier, while working from home for Microsoft, I was SWAT’ed by Salt Lake City Police. In 2015, I married a police lieutenant in Glynn County, Georgia: Bill Daras. Bill was not an ordinary officer. He helped solve Georgia’s largest mass murder case — the Guy Heinze case, in which Heinze murdered his family in an attempt to obtain drugs. Bill testified at trial, rose to lieutenant, and helped correct investigative errors attributed to the department. I met Bill after leaving my first husband, who had briefly been a police officer in Savannah, Georgia. We had an IBM business together — he ran operations, I did the technical work — which led to my internal hire at IBM. He was handsome, younger than me, pursuing a doctorate in Homeland Security, and c...
