And remembered Grant pressing her against the Lexus while accusing her of lying.
Now she knew the monitoring service had provided an additional reason to slow down before the encounter became physical.
She took a long breath.
"Was the message visible to the officers?"
Her attorney explained what the system records showed and which details remained under review.
Naomi nodded.
For several seconds, she remained silent.
Then she asked whether the department's dispatch protocols required revision.
Her attorney looked surprised.
"You're thinking about procedure already?"
Naomi smiled sadly.
"If the information was available and didn't affect the decision, we need to understand why."
She wasn't minimizing what happened.
She was identifying another place where the system could fail a future resident.
A person shouldn't need a neighbor to recognize them or a deputy chief to arrive in a government SUV before officers consider evidence that they're legally present in their own home.
The update made that principle even clearer.
Sergeant Grant was placed on administrative leave while the necessary reviews proceeded.
He received notice of the allegations and opportunities to respond through established procedures.
The department didn't announce a final employment decision before those processes were complete.
Grant's representative argued that the original alarm justified caution and that officers sometimes had to make decisions with incomplete information.
The investigators acknowledged the operational reality.
But they continued distinguishing between initial caution and conduct that followed clear opportunities for verification.
Grant's colleagues had mixed reactions.
Some believed the public criticism had become excessive.
Others privately admitted they'd seen him turn routine encounters into arguments over authority.
A veteran officer named Michael Foster remembered working with Grant several years earlier.
Foster had once watched him detain a delivery driver after the man repeatedly explained he was servicing the property.
The driver produced a work order.
Grant dismissed it.
Eventually, another officer contacted the homeowner and confirmed the delivery.
The incident ended without an arrest.
At the time, Foster considered it an unpleasant but isolated encounter.
Now he wondered whether he'd missed a warning sign.
He agreed to speak with investigators.
He described the incident accurately, including his own failure to challenge Grant more forcefully.
The interview was uncomfortable.
Foster had served beside Grant during dangerous calls.
He knew the sergeant had helped people.
But loyalty to a colleague couldn't require pretending harmful conduct hadn't occurred.
Grant's wife, Melissa, watched the news coverage from their living room.
They'd been married twelve years and had two children.
She knew her husband could be impatient.
She'd seen him come home angry after difficult shifts and complain about people who challenged police authority.