“He was coming so fast, there wasn’t any time to move all the way out the way”
Scott-Windham returned to Mobile Wednesday night with the bullet still in her foot, along with multiple fractures.
She’ll need to return to an orthopedist in two weeks to check on her foot. But the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence, and she worries she’ll have to find a new job once she’s recovered.
But the story isn’t one of medical leave, as important as that is: it was about the incident and her experience, but not her recovery.
News articles follow a common format, and the detail about her shit boss isn’t one that fits the straight-line narrative of “survives horrible ordeal against madman killing with gun and truck but traumatized, child also safe”. With editing how it is, a ruthless editor even without an agenda may just as easily pruned that detail.
I’m sorry it wasn’t the thesis in this piece, but I’m glad it was kept in where it can be quoted later – like it is here, where we can add it to the buzz. This is really a best outcome for a piece based around a different narrative. I hope she gets a better job soon.