An Eviction

Can writing be beautiful when it describes a scene that breaks your heart?

Today, TA-NEHISICOATES describes accompanying a Chicago sheriff as the sheriff evicts a family from their home.  Here’s one paragraph: 

The adult male in the family, who was at home…agued with the officers and bucked in a way that was very familiar to me. He was in the living room with his spouse and their two kids. He was being emasculated in front of all of them. He had no power. His family was about to be sat out and there was nothing he could do. The officers escorted him outside. They told him to leave the immediate premises or be arrested. Outside there were men hired to haul the family's stuff into the streets. 

Read the rest, maybe--nothing else to say.