Convoluted sentence I read this sentence multiple times and can not parse it After speaking with officers involved with the case in 1986 Frazier called the accident description inaccurate 8 and he and others said that then chief John Polio ordered Bishop released to her mother 42 22 allegedly a political supporter of the chief 22 as a member of the Braintree town meeting 7 and who they said demanded to meet with Polio personally after the arrest 43 22 instead of being charged for the shooting 8 36 It is too long and the final phrase instead of being charged for the shooting 8 36 makes little sense in the light of the rest of the sentence Can someone familiar with the story straighten it out