To avoid being threatened, assaulted or killed in the cross fires, not once did I take a stroll in my neighborhood or sit on the front porch of my house in Oakland after dark.

• 为了避免受到威胁，殴打或罪恶交火死亡，天黑之后我从来不漫步在我家附近或坐在我奥克兰家门口门廊。