Leave Us Alone and Let Us Shine

By Debbie Bell

Growing up in Chicago, Debbie Bell and her brother had a close-knit family and always relied on each other through good times and bad. Even after they each married and raised their own children, they never lost their special bond. But on the day Debbies brother was falsely accused and sentence 40 years in prison was devastating.

Leave Us Alone and Let Us Shine discusses the tragic circumstances surrounding Debbies brothers case and offers a true and correct version of that days events. She digs into the past and unearths evidence directly refuting the accusations made in another book on the subject. In addition, she uses several examples to show her brothers true character and how his situation resulted from being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Debbie also discusses the intense grieving process she underwent as a result of his long sentence and how his family now must live without him. Through her intense faith in God and her inner strength, Debbie paints a portrait of how one family has taken tragedy and turned it into triumph.

Honest and heart-wrenching, Leave Us Alone and Let Us Shine tells of one womans heartache and how she found healing through the power of God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Nov 9, 2010
• ISBN: 9781426939822

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 1

Life

Some people could put your name out there bad base on where you live or where you grew up. I was born and raised in Chicago and back when I was born. If you were from Chicago you had to be tough.

Yes I had to be tough living in Chicago. I remember being 10 year old going to the store with my best friend and we were laughing and just having fun when we were approach by an 18 year old girl. She asks what we were laughing at and we said none of your business, not knowing that she would be waiting outside when we came out. I happen to be the first one out the door and she stuck her foot out and tripped me and I chipped my tooth and I remember what my mother told me "If you don’t fight back I’m going to whoop you when you come home…so who would you rather it be Sandra or your mother?

So I got up off that ground and ran into her like there was no tomorrow and I beat the hell out of her. I surprised myself and from that point on I promise myself.;the bigger they are the harder they fall. I would never allow myself to look at the size of someone and be too afraid to defend myself or my siblings’. I will always try to protect my siblings and those of my family members whenever I’m around.

Most of my life I was the protector of my family. I could always depend on my parents to be there because I would never run to my family or friends when I would get in trouble. I would allow them to hear about it from the streets or someone else. I’ve always did my dirt by my self. Not to mention from 10 years old; until I was grown everyone always blamed me for something someone else has done. Sometimes people here things about your family and assume everyone acts the same. How can someone fix their mouth to speak wrong and bad about someone else family members! That person mother and father love them just as much as you love yours! No matter what they have done.

My motto was don’t take anything from no one as my mother always told us. I just didn’t understand it when she said don’t take nothing. Until she finally made me understand that she meant do not take anything that does not belong to you. She also said do not go outside picking and starting trouble with anyone.

Now if someone hit you! You better hit them back! Which I’m sure all mother’s heard that saying and told their children’s the same thing. We all know children have selective listen and take bits and pieces of what we say to them. My mother wishes she had never told me to hit them back, because it went to my head and that’s another reason why I miss my brother.

My brother would be the one to calm me down when someone has pissed me off. Once I got started it was hard to calm me down. A lot of people whom knew me knew this to be true. When you live in a small area everyone think they know you even if they just heard your name. The ones that truly knew me said I have a very good heart. If you didn’t mess with me I could be the sweetest person that one have every met.

You see my brother would stop whatever he was doing to calm me down. He would talk to the person and tell them walk away and let her calm down. Then when she is ready you can talk to her because mostly everyone that I got into it with was men. I didn’t care who they were or how tough they were or if I won or lose. I wasn’t giving up. I was not giving up until they knock me out or I whipped the hell out of them. I did not care how many people it was because it did not matter. But it never made a different. Not too often would I get into a fight with a female. Not saying I couldn’t be beat but it was going to be something to remember and I’ll leave that at that!

Unless we are defending our self in a life or death situation no one would just kill someone for freedom of speech. There is a better way to deal with that situation. I had to learn that the hard way. I remember hearing the saying that not all states and country have self defense..

In the state of Wisconsin: 939.48 Self-defense and defense of others. 2) Provocation affects the privilege of self-defense as follows:

(a) A person who engages in unlawful conduct of a type likely to provoke others to attack him or her and thereby does provoke an attack is not entitled to claim the privilege of self-defense against such attack, except when the attack which ensues is of a type causing the person engaging in the unlawful conduct to reasonably believe that he or she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm. In such a case, the person