Li Du was in prison and did not know the situation. The outside world was in chaos.
Suddenly, a large number of Miami media reported a piece of news: the Miami police chief abused his power for personal gain and sent an Asian Chinese man and his three companions to prison!
Some other media reported even more serious: racial discrimination, the Miami police joint prison, private imprisonment of a Chinese man!
These reports appeared not only in Miami, but also in the Miami area.
As we all know, in tourism promotion, Miami was described as a beautiful city at the southern end of the Florida peninsula, with an area of 34.3 square kilometers, the 11th largest city in the United States.
However, the Miami mentioned above referred to a city in a narrow sense, the southernmost area of the Florida peninsula, called Dowton-Miami in English.
Caddy Lent's uncle was the chief of the Dowton-Miami Police Department, and now the news was released in the broad sense of Miami, that is, the Miami metropolitan area.
The Miami metropolitan area was large enough to cover half of Florida.
With all the media in such a large area, the news could not be suppressed. Soon the entire southeastern United States saw the news and continued to spread. The same news appeared in the eastern United States.
Miami Police Chief Bartley Jones was in a meeting. He stood at the front of the conference room and was speaking passionately. Suddenly, a policewoman hurriedly opened the door. "Chief!"
Bartley frowned majestically and said, "What's the matter? What are you doing? Can't you see we are in a meeting? "
The policewoman said in a panic, "Something big has happened, Chief, you have to see it. Please look at this news..."
She held up the iPad in her hand. On it was the news released by the Miami Daily, the largest media in the Miami area.
Before Bartley had time to read it, another policeman ran in and said anxiously, "Chief, there's a phone call from the governor!"
He was stunned and said, "The governor called me?"
"Chief, there's a phone call from the mayor!" More policemen came to see him.
Bartley's face changed. Something big must have happened. The media, the mayor, and the governor were all alarmed. He was in trouble.
The American police system was very complicated. There were more than 80 kinds of federal police. Each state had its own state police, and each local government had its own police system.
These police systems did not belong to each other and were independent of each other. They wore different uniforms, and the people in charge were also different.
For example, the state police were only responsible to the state government and were not under the leadership of the federal police. The city police were only responsible to the city government and were not under the leadership of the federal police or the state police. Of course, they still had to cooperate with each other.
At the city level, the police chief was usually appointed by the mayor and was directly responsible to the mayor.
Therefore, when Bartley heard that the governor had called, he wasn't too worried. However, when his subordinate said that the mayor had also called, he became anxious.
Bartley answered the mayor's call first. The person on the other side of the phone started scolding, "F * ck you, Bartley Jones, you son of a b * tch! You've screwed me over! You damn bald-headed idiot! You're finished! Damn, I'm going to die too! "
Bartley was stunned and asked, "Mayor, what's going on?"
After the man finished cursing, he took a breath and roared, "You caught a Chinese and three Americans? You even sent them to prison without a trial?! Who the f * ck gave you the right! Tell me, what the f * ck is going on! What's going on! "
The mayor was already crazy. From his voice, it could be heard that he was shouting at the top of his lungs.
Bartley was confused and said, "A Chinese and three Americans?"
When he heard the mayor say "send them to prison without a trial," he shuddered and remembered.
Indeed, he had done such a thing two days ago. Bartley didn't have a son, so he was very fond of his sister's son, Caddy Lent.
Two or three nights ago, Caddy Lent called him and said that he had been shot. This made him furious.
The police arrested the shooter, and Bartley promised that his nephew would contact the court to give them a heavy sentence.
However, Caddy Lent told him that there was no rush to sue them. They had cheated him of a hundred thousand dollars and a Ferrari sports car, and he wanted them to spit it out. Otherwise, once the court sent the four of them to prison, he might not be able to get his things back.
Bartley was not a muddle-headed policeman. He first asked the policeman who handled the case.
The policeman told him that the case was about the four men who cheated Caddy Lent of his money and car with a fake watch. Then Caddy came to pursue the matter, and the four men threatened him with a gun.
Hearing this, Bartley was angry. He asked the policeman who the four men were, and the policeman who handled the case said that they were treasure hunters.
They bullied his nephew and had no background. Bartley decided to give them a taste of their own medicine. He also threatened the four men and decided to send them to prison through his own connections.
In his mind, he just sent the four men to prison for a few days, maybe three or four days, maybe a week, and then brought them to court.
In American law, there was at least a week between the police prosecution and the court hearing. During this time, the suspect could be released on bail.
Bartley had told his men that if anyone bailed them out, they were to be fished out of jail, and if no one bailed them out, they were to be kept there and made to suffer.
This was illegal, he knew very well. However, the American police system was full of shady dealings, and such means were not uncommon. As long as the other party had no background and power, there was no problem.
Even if the four men told the media about this, as long as Bartley refused to admit it, the four men could do nothing to him.
As for the media? The media were not stupid. They would not offend the local police for a matter without evidence.
Bartley naturally had his own way of doing things. He was very meticulous and deliberately investigated the situation of Li Du and the others.
Li Du was a Chinese who studied at a diploma mill in the United States. He was still on a student visa and usually worked in the warehouse auction business.
Hans Fox was a vagrant, a treasure hunter whose parents were dead and whose sister worked in a convenience store. As for the other two, they were ordinary new immigrants.
Such people were often at the bottom of the United States, not even comparable to the black people in the slums. Bartley thought that as a police chief, he could easily crush them.
Now, he found that he was wrong.
The mayor made it clear on the phone that he was finished. Later, he picked up the governor's phone in a daze. The governor was polite, but the tone was cold: the investigation team of the National Department of Justice was coming to Miami and asked him to prepare to receive them.
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