I don’t see red often.
In more than 20 years of covering news in this city, I’ve trained myself to stay composed. To be fair. To remember there are real people behind every story.
But yesterday, I saw red. A 46-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a five-year-old homeless girl walked out of King County Jail. Free. Not because anyone wanted him free. Not because anyone thought he should be free. But because the law gave prosecutors no choice…