Chapter 847: Differential treatment and reporting

What does it feel like for adrenaline to fill the body?

Carl felt the blood vessels behind his ears bulging. The sounds around him seemed to ring from very far away, and he could only hear his own heartbeat.

He held a steel pipe in his hand and rushed toward the person closest to him, his whole body filled with a kind of power.

His eyes were slightly red due to the rise in blood pressure. He swung the steel pipe in his hand and smashed it down on that person's head.

"Motherf***er!"

He cursed. The common language, besides these simple words, had no vocabulary to let him vent his emotions completely!

The person facing him was full of panic and confusion. The intense pain froze his thinking ability for a moment, and then Carl swung the steel pipe and came again.

His hand holding the steel pipe was shaking with pain!

The head that had been beaten was bleeding, but not much. After all, the steel pipe is not a square piece of wood and has no blade surface.

The bleeding was only caused by contusion, so the blood didn't flow fast.

But the person whose head was smashed by him started pushing and trying to fight back, even wanting to call for help!

Carl didn't care about these. His only thought now was to beat these people down!

At the same time, the police who had formed a human wall and wouldn't move even if provoked suddenly started to move.

The leading striking worker who was covering his head breathed a sigh of relief. He pointed at Carl and shouted loudly, "It's this person, it's this person, he is the leader of this group!"

Under his gaze, those police rushed over. A smile appeared on his face, but very soon the smile froze!

Because the rubber stick in the police's hand that hurt a lot when hitting people slammed onto his head.

The head that had experienced the steel pipe twice experienced the beating of the solid steel stick wrapped in rubber again. The brain went "buzz" in an instant, and his eyes started to stare blankly.

Two police officers pressed him to the ground and greeted his head with force.

The iron plates on the soles of the leather shoes tore open the worker's scalp, and blood gushed out all at once.

Two police officers took off their handcuffs and handcuffed this guy. One of them poked Carl with his elbow, signaling him not to be dazed.

Carl came back to his senses and immediately rushed to the second one!

The rushing blood made a thunderous sound in his body. At this moment, he felt he was terrifyingly strong!

In an instant, the street became completely chaotic. In this kind of chaos, it is actually very difficult for people to confirm whether the people caught are the perpetrators or the protesting people.

Reporters don't care who is caught; they only care about big news.

And those onlookers screamed and fled here. Every time a riot appears, there is always a bad-luck guy who is really unlucky!

These striking people didn't react when they were impacted at the beginning, but now they gradually reacted. They tried to confront these "attackers," but the effect wasn't very good.

Because these attackers held steel pipes and wooden sticks in their hands, while they had nothing.

These things might not kill people, but hitting them on the body and head is really painful!

And the most critical point: if they get injured, who will bear the medical expenses?

In people's eyes, the arm of a strike protester was smashed and broken in the process of blocking the steel pipe, twisting at a weird angle.

This scene scared many people!

As workers, the foundation of everything they have is their bodies, arms, and hands!

If their arms were broken, they might lose their labor ability.

What does losing labor ability mean in this terrible society?

It means they will lose the work they have now, lose the stable income every month. Their wives and children will leave them because he can't feed a family!

In the end, they might be kicked onto the street because they can't pay property taxes and land taxes—maybe just one or two dollars—and the bank will take away their house and deal with it at a half-buy, half-give price.

They will lose the money left in their pockets, and then become homeless with street friends, gradually disappearing from people's memories!

The protest crowd started to collapse. Although some people were still resisting, those who resisted would soon be surrounded and beaten by those refugee groups.

After being beaten, they had to be beaten by the police, and after the police beat them, they had to press them to the ground and handcuff them!

Those people at the back of the protest crowd didn't know what happened at the front at all. They could only see some people at the front covered in blood, fleeing in panic.

Fear also made the people at the back start to flee.

Most of the people standing at the very back of the protest crowd were morally kidnapped by fellow workers. They weren't necessarily willing to participate in this strike activity, so having a way to avoid it, they fled in all directions for the first time.

The originally imposing strike, accompanied by the constantly collapsing crowd, ultimately miraculously dissolved. The whole process took less than forty minutes.

Carl's heart jumped, and he threw away the steel pipe, dispersing with the crowd. But some refugees were also caught. These are scripts.

You can't just catch the people who are striking and protesting; you have to catch some refugees, and then from their mouths, get the content that the media, public opinion, and society want to know.

A large number of wounded were sent to nearby police stations, and some with serious injuries were sent to hospitals.

The news spread very quickly.

Mayor Williams, who had been standing by the window, shook his head with a smile and returned to his desk to continue working.

Some capitalists in the city also revealed satisfied smiles and started to indulge in their lives.

Attorney General Terry, the first time he knew this news, demanded that the local prosecutor figure out whether any individual or organization was trying to use this protest to achieve ulterior motives...

Tom also told the senator the news for the first time. The senator was quite calm and composed. This doesn't count as passing the test; this is just the beginning, but Lanse made a good start.

Everyone has different views on this matter, and they are also looking forward to the further development of the matter.

Lanse himself was actually at the scene, but in a place where people couldn't notice him. When he watched the protest crowd on the street being dispersed, he nodded very satisfied, "Carl did well."

Others also nodded one after another. They also saw Carl rushing to the first place. He worked very hard, and everyone likes this kind of person.

Seeing that this strike was temporarily over, Lanse picked up the phone, "Time for the next step."

Very soon, the editor-in-chief of the *Jincheng Today* newspaper came to Lanse's office in person.

In the past, George had Lanse's exclusive resources, which made many people in the newspaper envious and jealous, and even the editor-in-chief felt that this kid's luck was f***ing good.

But with the occurrence of some things, he also realized that good luck won't always accompany everyone.

After George had an accident, he took the initiative to call Lanse, explained the situation, and subsequently indicated that if Lanse had anything the newspaper needed to do, he could contact him directly.

Although the editor-in-chief hadn't written articles himself for a long time, he was absolutely the best among them.

When seeing Lanse, the editor-in-chief's face was full of flattering smiles. Today's matter made him realize again that whether this city is chaotic or not is entirely up to Lanse!

"Mr. Lanse."

"Please sit!"

After both sat down, Lanse said, "I hope you can arrange some reports as soon as possible."

The editor-in-chief took out the notebook and pen he carried with him, "What content do you hope we report?"

The News Group is on Mayor Williams's side, which is indirectly equivalent to being on Lanse's side, so the editor-in-chief had no burden at all.

Even if the News Group knew what he was going to do, they would only fully cooperate and wouldn't let him stop.

And Lanse is also a major shareholder of the TV station. No matter what, Lanse's request wouldn't be refused.

"The first thing, interview those who bled and were injured in this conflict event. I noticed many people had their hands and feet broken. Interview their situation."

"Then do a follow-up report to see who paid for their medical expenses."

"And how the union and the Labor Federation arranged them after their treatment ended."

Lanse paused, "I heard the places where they worked are planning to fire them."

"Try to lead them toward the union and the Labor Federation. They responded to the call to protest, and the injuries produced don't belong to work-related injuries, so the enterprise doesn't need to be responsible."

"Those refugees have no money and can't bear it. Only the Labor Federation and the union have money and reasons to pay. Report these."

The editor-in-chief's eyes lit up. He knew Lanse's purpose: to create contradictions between laborers and the union, as well as the Labor Federation.

In the Federation, medical expenses are not a small amount of money. Now it is wartime, and the prices of drugs are doubling. Just a fracture might cost thousands of dollars in medical expenses.

If surgery is also needed, and the surgery is complex, it is estimated that the expenses will be even more!

The Labor Federation and the union will very likely not pay this money, because once they pay it, it will become a "precedent."

In the future, as long as it is a strike activity they initiated, if anyone is injured, they have to pay money. They themselves can't stand this kind of expenditure.

There will definitely be people who join the activity and then take the initiative to touch porcelain. There are too many such people.

"In addition, report the damage to production caused by their strike for their own selfish desires, and the damage and inconvenience caused to society."

"Interview those factory owners, let them talk about the situation they are facing because of the workers' strike."

"They are about to be fired. Interview their families, report the problems they have to face."

"You can pick some particularly miserable ones to report, or even artificially process them. In short, it must be miserable."

"Finally, report those workers and factories that didn't participate in the strike, let people see how much benefit a stable society has for factories and laborers, and form a contrast..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 848 =====