"Monster" by Walter Dean Myers: Identifying & Resolving Conflicts

Headed home late one night, I came across a spray can near the end of the sidewalk, and as I turned the opposite direction there were a few graffiti tags. I touched the wall of the house onto which the tags were embedded upon, to find out it was recently done, due to the fact that it was still not completely dry. Before I realized anything else I was stopped by two police officers nearby, …

…police station I was searched and they began asking many questions. After about ten minutes of professing my innocence, another police officer approached us from another car, and said "Let him go, wrong guy, we caught the culprit down the road". After taking my details and apologizing they finally let me go. This was one experience I will never forget, and I know how it feels to be blamed for some thing you didn't do.