By Kirstie Brewer, British Broadcasting Corporation, September 5, 2021
LaTonya woke up in the night to the sound of thuds and yells. Her mother's boyfriend had been growing increasingly abusive and unstable, and now he was dragging their bed out of the apartment and into the passageway outside.
LaTonya crept out of bed and saw the boyfriend shouting and jabbing his finger at her mother's temple.
"I thought I could protect my mom," she says. She picked up an aerosol can and hit him with it. He went to a payphone and called the police.
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