accosts

Jackson accosts Alberta about her past alcoholism, has distressing sex abuse flashbacks and refuses to allow crosses in her house–seeing it as Alberta’s cop-out until faith saves the family.

School marshals escort her and her fellow board members to their cars to ensure no one accosts them.

An undead crone, motion sensitive, accosts passers-by from the hedge.

Instead, Herschel just spirals: He accosts another neighbor because he thinks that with one glance, he has emotionally bonded with that man’s dog; he sneaks into the local zoo at night to try and commune with animals including a red panda that, unsurprisingly, wants nothing to do with him.

“No one accosts me in the street. No one threatens my life, and nobody shoots me,” said Miller, who is white.