Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 716 A Riot

"I'm fine, I'm safe! Our crew finished filming in Los Angeles yesterday, and I'm in Washington right now! Don't worry!"

On the other end of the phone, Marisa's voice came. After hearing this voice, Li Weisi, who was originally anxious, immediately calmed down a lot.

After chatting with each other for a while, the two of them hung up the phone. They are both old couples. As long as they are sure that each other is safe, everything else will be kept silent.

Hearing Li Weisi tell Marisa that everything is fine, Frank also felt relieved. After all, this zero-yuan purchase incident is much more serious than the zero-yuan purchase incident 27 years later.

Like Freud, who couldn't breathe 27 years later, the cause of this incident was black people.

On March 91, 3, an African-American man named Rodney King chased the police at high speed on the streets of Los Angeles, and was eventually stopped and surrendered.

However, despite surrendering, King was unwilling to cooperate with the police and refused to be arrested, so he was beaten by three police officers.

This time they did not use the traditional art of the American police "Iron Knee Broken Throat", but used their other two famous stunts, "Sweeping Thousands with Sticks" and "Shadowless Flying Feet".

Coincidentally, this time, even though passers-by did not have mobile phones, civilians with camcorders captured video of them waving batons and fisting each other.

Later, this 89-second video clip was edited into a video tape of more than 60 seconds. Through the media, it quickly ignited the anger of the whole country and triggered a nationwide discussion about police violence.

According to the procrastination of the American court, oh no, it is a rigorous attitude, and the final judgment has been delayed until April this year.

And so, on April 4, a 29-member jury issued its verdict: acquitted of all previous charges against the police.

As a result, this caused riots throughout Los Angeles. On the 29th, it was just the beginning.

In addition, in addition to the Rodney King beating, there is also a shooting of Latasha Harlins.

This case refers to a 15-year-old black woman, Latasha Harlins, who stole a 1.79-year-old black woman from a grocery store in the National City in Los Angeles not long after Rodney King was beaten. $[-] bottle of orange juice to go.

The proprietress Dou Shunzi came out and scolded Dou Shunzi angrily, but Harlins punched Dou Shunzi three times and knocked Dou Shunzi to the ground.

It's a pity that this proprietress is also a ruthless character, not a silver pewter gun head like Zhenguanxi. She took out a pistol from under the counter and shot Harlins in the head.

Although the proprietress suffered a lawsuit, during the subsequent trial in the Los Angeles court, the jury found Dou Shunzi guilty of intentional homicide and was sentenced to 16 years in prison; however, the presiding female judge, Joey Scarlin, did not think so, so the sentence was commuted Up to five years probation, 400 hours of community service and a $500 fine.

This made the black people who have been oppressed by white people and have a sense of superiority in front of Asians completely angry, thinking that this is blood feud.

So after the two things superimposed, after the court declared the police not guilty, the black people first gathered in the downtown Los Angeles court to demonstrate, and then went to steal the national city for zero yuan purchases.

Even, the two largest black gangs in Los Angeles at the time, the crips and the bloods, both declared a truce, expressing that they would fight with each other (or make a fortune).

It can be said that what Frank and Li Weisi saw on TV was only the beginning of the riots. On the second day, the firepower of both sides escalated.

The famous National Guard marched into Los Angeles with great momentum, then bypassed the fierce battle in Thief City, and went all the way west to participate in the peaceful Beverly Hills defense battle.

The thieves in the city center, because they could not wait for reinforcements, could only take up arms spontaneously, form an armed guard team, and engage in gun battles with the blacks.

The old blacks also suffered from being uneducated. They didn't know what it meant to enter the village quietly, and they didn't want to shoot guns.

There is no way, most of these immigrants who stole the country have served more than two years of military service in their own country, which is something that Lao Hei, a group of stragglers, can deal with.

In this way, the thief of the country survived the five-day defense battle. Among the 63 people who died, only one was a thief of the country.

However, the Asians who were affected by this riot were not only people who stole Chinese people. Many Chinese shops were also affected and suffered heavy losses.

In addition, this riot did not only happen in Los Angeles, but also spread to Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York, Seattle and other places.

The entire riot lasted six days. In fact, as early as the fourth day, 4000 army soldiers and marines arrived in Los Angeles with Abrams tanks and armored personnel carriers to begin military control.

And so, on the sixth day, when order had generally been restored, Mayor Bradley lifted the curfew and schools, banks and businesses reopened, and the unrest finally died down.

Shortly after the riots ended, Li Weisi immediately came to Chinatown in Los Angeles to express condolences to the Chinese merchants and shops that had suffered losses, and said on the spot that a fund would be set up to provide certain financial compensation for the affected families.

Of course, with Li Weisi's brain, it is obviously impossible to make the whole thing so watertight.

In fact, throughout the whole process, there was a professional public relations team hired by Frank to spend a lot of money to create the whole process of character design for Li Weisi. Of course, these teams were hired by the Warriors in name.

Although Li Weisi's actions are suspected of being a show, it is undeniable that he did bring some care and compensation to the Chinese who have suffered losses.

More importantly, sports stars like Li Weisi with their own traffic do such things, which naturally gives the Chinese people an additional channel to speak out, so that their tragic situation will be known to more people, and it will not be like in history. Become an existence that is almost transparent.

Seeing the treatment of the Chinese, this made the Chinese people in the eye of the storm very angry. They even sent representatives to find Li Weisi's team, hoping that Li Weisi could also speak out for them.

However, the high salaries of these public relations teams are not for nothing. They listened carefully to the pleas of the people who stole the country, expressed concern about their situation on behalf of Li Weisi, and expressed great separation from those black thugs, strongly condemning this kind of beating, smashing, looting and burning. the behavior of.

However, Li Weisi didn't even know that they had been here until the people from the country returned happily, and when the flowers all withered.

(End of this chapter)