Bent Staples, starts his essay is way that's a murder telling his story of how he started to a cop that had caught him. Being very detailed, so that the reader can have a pretty clear picture in mind of the victim. The victim gesticulating her head to try to capture the dark figure, drawing the essence of the fear that she has.
He describes hisself at the mear glam can change the mood of most people, "he had the ability to alter public space in a ugly way". The felling of aggrievement toward hiself that he is being labeled as somethig of a bad nature.