frank pape beat james. while interrogate him about this murder and using odious racial slurs, the children came in to the living room crying screaming, seeing their parents being assaulted and the police officers assaulted as well. houston monroe, who was the eldest stepson of james monroe, turned 17 on that day, and he recalls that their screaming probably saved his father's life because they seemed like they were going to kill him. the officers then arrest james monroe, took him to the station, held him for hours without letting him see a judge, speak to a lawyer or have any phone calls. and then when the white woman couldn't pick him out of a lineup he was eventually released. so this a story on that we could be reading about in the news today it's also story that sounded eerily like the kinds of stories that prompted congress in the years after the civil war reconstruction to first pass this law that allowed people to sue for constitutional violations. amazing. absolutely amazing. and that's what struck