Chapter 555: The Great March

Today is the third day of the march, and the crew has also stopped filming for three days. Miss Luo Quan has been paying attention to the news, paying attention to the effect and progress of the march.

It's not that she pays much attention to American people's livelihood; it's mainly that the effect of the march is related to the date of starting work.

Originally, according to reports from various media, this march had already received quite a lot of attention, and the government also decided to exert pressure.

It can be said that the demands of the organizers of this march were almost on the verge of being achieved.

But perhaps because they understood the truth that "the crying child has milk to eat," after film practitioners took to the streets to march and obtained benefits, other industries in the United States also started to make trouble.

The first to march was the supermarket service industry. Among them, the service staff from Walmart were the most numerous. Their demands were wage increases and stopping discrimination.

Still led by the union, and then the staff stopped work and took to the streets.

Compared to film practitioners, the number of these cashiers and cleaners from supermarkets is much larger, and they are spread across all states in the United States.

It's just that most states are just making a small fuss, but the number of people marching in big cities like New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, and San Francisco is quite large.

The power of example is infinite. Under the thought that the law does not punish the masses, more and more people started to take to the streets, accusing them of the unfair treatment they received at work.

Originally, it was just a march of a group of film practitioners, but in the end, it developed directly into a joint march of workers. Now the momentum was completely huge.

The media started reporting and interviewing overwhelmingly, and the police also started to increase a large number of people to maintain order.

Up to now, everything is still considered to be controlled within a safe range.

In fact, marches of this scale are not particularly rare in the United States. A few years ago, there was a march against TXL discrimination. At that time, half of American society participated in it, and the formation was even larger than this time.

It's just that this time the strikers were all workers, leading to many production industries and shops closing down, so the government was quite angry and hoped to resolve it as soon as possible.

However, capitalists definitely don't want to raise wages just because of a march. If it's adjusted this time, what if they are dissatisfied after a while? Should they adjust it again?

And as workers, now that the economy is declining, prices are getting more and more expensive, and insurance and medical expenses are also getting higher and higher, but wages have always remained unchanged. This is definitely unreasonable. Now that there is an opportunity to raise wages through marches, there is definitely no one who will refuse.

In short, the contradictions and differences between the two sides are very large. Government lobbyists are busy, but the progress of coordination is relatively slow.

In the United States, a lobbyist is a profession that specializes in mediating between the two sides of a contradiction and resolving differences through their own abilities and connections.

In common terms, it is a negotiation expert. In American culture, it is a quite special and very important profession.

In short, the government is trying to end this dispute as soon as possible, while workers and capitalists are trying their best to fight for their own interests. All three sides are negotiating.

This negotiation might last for a long time, or it might be settled tomorrow, but before the negotiations resume, the current state of production stagnation will continue.

And as the wave of marches swept across the country, the order that the police struggled to maintain finally couldn't be maintained.

Originally, this was just a march initiated by workers for their own interests, but I don't know why, the unemployed people in society were also organized and joined in.

They wanted the government to increase subsidies, improve the food in shelters, and even provide them with free housing.

The slogan was shouted very beautifully, but the behavior was not so pretty.

These people started by marching properly with the workers' main force, but as they marched, they clashed with the police.

In the ranks of these unemployed people, a large part were black people, and the attitude of American police towards black people doesn't need to be said.

After the conflict occurred, black people thought this was discrimination against black people.

Why is it that white people are fine when they march, but black people have to be beaten when they march?

No, this matter must be protested, and an explanation must be demanded!

Thus, a march even larger than the workers' march kicked off.

Miss Luo Quan saw this news on Twitter, which had already exploded in popularity, and thought to herself that sure enough, all contradictions will be transformed into political correctness.

Originally, it was just a small march of a thousand people, but the influence expanded step by step, and finally developed into such a result.

At this time, she had already returned to the hotel in Los Angeles. Pulling open the window and looking outside, borrowing the light of the street lamp, she saw a large group of black people on the avenue below, conducting an anti-ZZ discrimination march.

It is said that this march gathered more than twenty thousand people, but Miss Luo Quan looked at these black crowds and felt that the number should only be more, not less.

These people were masked, carrying backpacks, moving forward unscrupulously on the road, completely ignoring the vehicles beside them.

A large number of police were waiting in full battle array not far away, holding anti-riot shields and batons, ready to deal with situations that might occur at any time.

The situation has developed to now, and it is actually already very dangerous.

Because these marchers have no organization and no discipline. Anti-discrimination is the slogan, but many people don't know what they are taking to the streets for specifically.

Government officials have apologized several times in the media, calling on the marchers to remain calm and rational, but the police sent were fully armed, as if they would move if they didn't agree.

This actually doesn't blame the American police for being so nervous; it's mainly because Los Angeles has a precedent.

In the 1990s, Los Angeles once broke out in a very large-scale riot. At that time, it was also because the police violently enforced the law, leading to mass protests, which finally triggered the famous Los Angeles riots.

In this man-made disaster, more than fifty people died, two thousand people were injured, and the economic loss exceeded one billion US dollars. It was the most serious riot since the 1960s.

Because of such a historical background, the police have been quite restrained when dealing with it this time.

But people all have tempers. When they are constantly encountered with provocation and abuse, no matter how restrained they are, there are times when they can't control it.

Miss Luo Quan has been watching the movement below, witnessing with her own eyes how the neat team was blocked, negotiated, scolded, and finally evolved into a conflict by the police.

The reason is likely just because someone threw a bottle and hit a policeman's helmet, and then several policemen rushed into the crowd.

Although there was no telescope, the camera function of the Huawei mobile phone was truly powerful. Even though Miss Luo Quan was in a high-rise building, she could still clearly film the scene of the chaos below.

The conflict between the marchers and the police began. These people threw stones at the police, while the police fought back with tear gas. If they were close, they would be served with batons.

Facing these fully armed police, some marchers didn't resist for too long but scattered and fled.

But these people didn't go home because of this, but rushed into the shops on the nearby streets aggressively.

Taking advantage of the main force being entangled with the police, the people with ulterior motives among the marchers started zero-dollar purchases directly.

Walmart supermarkets, Apple mobile phone stores, and luxury bag stores all became disaster areas.

Originally, because of the workers' march, these shops were in a state of suspension. As a result, the zero-dollar purchase army directly smashed the shop glass and broke in, taking whatever they liked.

And with the start of this carnival, many residents who were originally staying at home saw the videos posted by people on Twitter and ran out of their homes to participate in it.

The team of this march exceeded twenty thousand people, and the zero-dollar purchase army was also over a thousand. Can the Los Angeles police catch so many people into prison?

Of course it's impossible. At most, they can only deal with a few of the main culprits.

Taking advantage of the fact that the goods in those blocks had not been moved away, many nearby residents carried backpacks and walked into the cover of the night.

The police here had already taken all the police force to deal with the march team. Where would they have time to manage any zero-dollar purchases?

Goods being robbed is at most a loss of money. If an event like the 92 Los Angeles riots happens again, a large group of officials here will have to lose their official hats!

The street is now a mess. The destructive power of thousands of robbers is amazing. Not only shops, but many passersby have also encountered violent crimes.

And the hotel where Miss Luo Quan is located is just the gathering place for the march. There are many police here, and the zero-dollar purchase army dare not make trouble here. So although the scene was very chaotic for a while, not many people attacked the hotel.

And in such a chaotic situation, there is still a group of people on the street who look very calm, or even excited.

They are reporters from major media such as BBC, AP, Reuters, AFP, etc. When the march started, these people had already arrived and started livestreaming.

Originally, they just wanted to shoot it as a hot spot, but they didn't expect to encounter such big news.

This riot has now been livestreamed by major news agencies. The real-time viewing number on YouTube exceeded 300,000, and related tweets on Twitter exceeded 200,000.

I believe that government officials who had already entered dreamland should have been awakened by phone calls one by one, and are thinking about how to solve the impact caused by this riot.

And Miss Luo Quan, as a thorough outsider, just recorded a video for half an hour upstairs in a way of watching the fun.

When she finished recording, the riot was still continuing. With tens of thousands of angry protesters, it is definitely impossible to catch them all by relying on the police.

This riot is estimated to last until tomorrow morning.

After recording the video, Miss Luo Quan uploaded the video to Bilibili.

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