Chapter 16: Retaliation (1/2)
At this moment, the bureau director finally came out of his office to the scene, with the instructor following behind him. Those young masters were still sitting there, expressing great grievances.
The director’s face ultimately squeezed out a smile as he came over and said, “Are there any misunderstandings?”
A lawyer replied, “Director Liu, it’s great that you are here. Please take a look at this, my client as well as his friends were all arrested last night. Look at their faces, they were clearly beaten. I hope you can give us an explanation. The little patrol officer under you arrested my client for god knows what, and he even used violence. Police officers aren’t given the right to do that, right?”
The director laughed and casted a look at Xu Cheng. Xu Cheng replied, “These people are guilty of affray and they ignored my mediation. They proceeded to humiliate and insult us, and that Young Master Yun guy spat at me. Under that kind of situation, I am allowed to fire to enforce the law, so what’s the problem with just arresting him? Then, the other people surrounded me and tried to disrupt me from enforcing the law, so I just brought them all here.”
The lawyer: “Officer Xu, right? Every sentence of yours made an accusation towards my client, so do you have the evidence? I’m a lawyer; once we get to court, we only need evidence.”
Seeing how aggressive the lawyers were being, the instructor pulled Xu Cheng to the side and whispered, “Just cooperate and apologize, the director and I will cover you this time. Let’s not blow this up. This time, too many people were involved, and you might have to face some consequences.”
Xu Cheng was speechless, “Have me apologize? To these people?”
His words were heard by those young masters in the cell, and Young Master Yun snorted, “It’s useless to apologize too. Since you guys enforce the law, then let’s just follow the proper due process.”
Yun’s lawyer nodded, and then he began accounting in a serious face, “First, the police officer’s unjustified arrest caused my client mental damages; then, his overnight detention caused damage to his reputation and this will require compensation, plus all the physical injures. If the bureau doesn’t want to blow this big and wants to deal with it privately, then we will ask 500,000 yuan for compensation.”
“500,000?” The director and instructor’s eyes widened; how in the hell will the bureau get this much funding?
The lawyer nodded, “Yes. To Young Master Yun, 500,000 was a number he gave after careful consideration. He knew it’s not easy being a police officer, so he didn’t want to demand an exorbitant price. This money is nothing to him, and it’s already on the low end.”
The other lawyers nodded, “We agree. If the bureau wants to settle this privately, our clients all want 500,000 yuan in compensation.”
“Everyone?’ The instructor was flabbergasted. There are 12 of them, so 6 million?
“Uh… where would the bureau find all this money to compensate you all…” The director smiled bitterly.
Young Master Yun obviously knew that the bureau wouldn’t be able to pay up, since he was just doing this to give enough pressure to force them to accept their second option.
“Of course, the bureau also doesn’t need to fully compensate us all, you can just let this Officer Xu who arrested us take the responsibility.”
All the officers look towards Xu Cheng. Who could compensate that amount, it was just too much… It seemed like the only possible solution was to separate themselves from the issue and push it onto the party that was involved.
Of course, the director wasn’t the type that would shirk his responsibility and push it onto someone and fire him. He walked to Xu Cheng and whispered, “You just got here and are bound to make mistakes. Like the lawyer said, there’s really no evidence that could prove what they did. Of course, police officers have the authority to bring people back and ask them to cooperate with an investigation. People of these backgrounds need special treatment; you should’ve just let them go at the scene but you actually brought them back. They got injured and were locked up for a night, it should be good enough now, just go apologize… The bureau doesn’t have the money to pay that bill.”
He patted Xu Cheng’s shoulder. After talking, he smiled and went to Young Master Yun and the others, “Everyone, how about this, I will personally apologize for what happened last night. It was the first shift of this subordinate of mine, and he didn’t know many of the rules.”