It also frustrated Holloway supporters who treated any uncertainty as exoneration.
Isaiah liked the wording.
Evidence should not claim more than it knew.
Meanwhile, Jalen stopped skating.
For the first week, nobody noticed because school, homework, and media attention filled his time.
Then Isaiah found the repaired raven board untouched against the bedroom wall.
“You done?”
Jalen shrugged.
“For now.”
Isaiah leaned against the door.
“You scared?”
“No.”
Isaiah waited.
Jalen looked at him.
“I said no.”
“That was your bad lie voice.”
“I don’t have a bad lie voice.”
“You absolutely do.”
Jalen sat on the bed.
“What if he’s there?”
“Holloway?”
“Any cop.”
Isaiah understood.
The fear had generalized.
Harrison Skatepark no longer felt like concrete ramps.
It felt like the place a uniform could turn ordinary behavior into suspicion.
Isaiah did not tell Jalen to get over it.
He did not say police were mostly good.
He did not say one officer should not define thousands.
All of those statements could contain truth and still be useless at the wrong moment.
Instead he asked, “Want to go at six tomorrow morning when it’s empty?”
Jalen thought.
“Will you skate?”
“If my knees agree.”
“They won’t.”
“Disrespectful.”
Jalen smiled.
That was enough.
They arrived at Harrison just after sunrise Sunday.
No crowd.
No cameras.
No police.
Only birds, wet concrete near one drain, and an older man walking a dog around the recreation path.
Jalen stood at the bowl edge for nearly five minutes.
Isaiah did not rush him.
Finally Jalen dropped in.
One line.
Then another.
He missed a kickflip and cursed.
Isaiah laughed.
By seven-thirty, the park felt partly his again.
That mattered more to Isaiah than every headline calling him a hero.
The State Police use-of-force report came out six weeks later.
It concluded Holloway had lawful grounds to approach and ask questions related to the reported stolen skateboard.
It did not conclude he had lawful grounds to escalate the encounter as he did.
Investigators found Jalen’s conduct did not present an immediate threat when Holloway initiated physical control.
The officer’s own video contradicted significant portions of his written description.
Isaiah’s intervention was evaluated separately.
Investigators found he reasonably believed his minor brother was being subjected to unnecessary force and that Holloway’s movement toward the duty belt created a reasonable perception of further danger.
They also noted Isaiah stopped applying force once Holloway ceased resisting.
No criminal charges were filed against Isaiah.
That was expected.
The harder question concerned Holloway.
The local prosecutor reviewed whether the shove and physical detention justified criminal assault charges.
Ultimately, the prosecutor filed one misdemeanor assault charge and one count of misconduct in office related partly to the inaccurate report.
Holloway pleaded not guilty.