"Fractured nasal bridge, cracked right orbital bone, two teeth missing, slight tear of facial masseter muscle, nasal edema, bleeding in the right eye...... That's a hard punch, Leon. ”

In the interview room of the Boston South District Police Department, Rob Eze held an injury identification report and said to Fox Leon, who was sitting across from him.

Leon was now in a uniform and handcuffed, sitting in front of Eze, who had been arrested by the Boston Police Department on suspicion of intentional injury and was now facing charges from the Boston Public Prosecution Service. Judging from the injury report, the punch he punched Frank was really hard enough, comparable to Washington's crit Tomjanovich, and Frank was knocked unconscious at that time.

Before the people in the bar could react, the police arrived at the scene, and the nearby police station heard that the Celtic head coach was being chased by the gang, and ran to the bar at lightning speed.

As a result, when I arrived at the bar, I didn't see Leon fall to the ground and was injured, but only saw a middle-aged guy fall at Leon's feet, and the police turned the person over and found that this person was the leader of the Irish gang, the remnant of the "Winter Hills" gang, Jeff Frank.

In the end, Frank was carried away by an ambulance, and his face was beaten as if he was disfigured, and because of this, Fox Leon was arrested by the police that night. After spending a night at the police station, Leon was given a five-star treatment, but the next day the news inevitably spread, and countless reporters flocked to the station, who had just become Boston's brightest unsung hero in the summer, and in just a few days he had become a prisoner.

Of course, the Celtics immediately assigned a lawyer to Leon, but Leon still trusted Auerbach's friend Rob Eze, who traveled from Washington to handle the case for Leon.

"First of all, it's safe to say that Jeff Frank is going to spend the rest of his life in the hospital or in prison, and the Boston prosecutors are ready to prosecute him for a crime, and he's going to face life in prison, and in that respect you're doing a good thing for Boston; But on the other hand, the prosecutor will also indict you for intentional injury, after all, that punch hit him hard. Rob Eze put the information together and talked to Leon about the situation.

"So what now, what can I do? I think I probably have two paths, first, admit that I punched Frank for no reason, even if I hit a murderer, the underworld, a drug dealer, I am no different from hitting a passerby. I could face three months in prison for this, missing the preseason and two months of the regular season. Second, if it is proved that I beat Frank out of self-defense, because he instructed the thugs to attack me, and I knocked him unconscious in order to resist, and the blow was more severe but extenuating, then I could be exempted from imprisonment and given a suspended sentence. At this point, Leon was very calm, and before Eze could say a solution, he listed the possibilities himself.

Eze smiled, then nodded, "Leon is Leon, worthy of the person who found a way to send himself to prison to avoid being pursued." Three years ago you punched Malik and sent yourself to the MCI, and now you're punching again and you can't get into the MCI again. Don't worry, we definitely have a way, after all, we don't suffer in public opinion, so many things will be much easier to do. ”

Although the news of Leon's arrest caused an uproar, unlike other stars such as Ross Barkley, Leon's punch was righteous. Although Jeff Frank is far less notorious than his boss James Barger, and he has been more restrained in the past two years, as long as he knows that he was once a member of the "Winter Hills", no one in Boston, whether they lived through that period or not, will not have the slightest sympathy for him.

Therefore, although some media have taken out the articles that have turned over the old accounts last year, more media are saying good things about Leon. On the whole, in terms of the public opinion situation, it is generally favorable to León.

On the third day of Leon's detention, a New Yorker report on the incident turned the tide of public opinion. The article points out that Leon fought Frank that night not only because he was attacked by Frank's men, but also because his father, Matthews Leon, had been killed by Barger and Frank at the rocky beach of Port Alde twenty years earlier, and his mouth was crushed with a full mouth of teeth.

Leon's punch was not just for himself, but for his dead father.

As soon as this article came out, the whole United States was in an uproar, and the image of avenging his father was on the paper, and his punch was not only a fist of justice, but also a fist of revenge. In short, American fans, especially those in Boston, were outraged, and on October 5, a large number of Celtic fans gathered in front of the Boston Police Department to demand that the police station release them, protesting that the police station could not effectively protect the lives of citizens, but asked citizens to find out the murderers themselves.

All this was unexpected by the police department, although the American police have always been united and fierce, and they shoot at the slightest disagreement, but in the face of large-scale mass incidents, they must not be handled at will, especially if this incident involves public figures in Boston.

It is certainly impossible to release people, the law has legal procedures, whether this punch is righteous or evil, revenge or revenge, the law has its own legal judgment. Finally, the chief of police went to the detention center to meet Leon in person, hoping that Leon would come forward to put an end to the incident.

Leon is very sober-minded, he doesn't want to play any means of coercing the judiciary by public opinion, if he wants to play, he is also looking for legal loopholes, playing seamlessly, and the rotten tricks of coercing public opinion will only discredit him.

So Leon wrote a letter "To the fans of Boston" with a stroke of his pen, sprinkled hundreds of words, briefly describing his experience from a gangster to today, and exhorting fans to believe in the law and justice, and believe that he will return to the court safely like defeating all NBA teams to win the championship, and lead the team to restore the glory of the Celtics.

The police chief, who received Leon's letter, first asked the other police officers to control the situation, and then held an emergency press conference, at which the contents of the letter were read to all reporters.

Leon's letter, written in a natural, fresh and concise style, has the style of Hemingway, and uses the simplest words to describe his general experience in the past few years. And in the second half of the letter, he expressed his feelings for the Celtics, his feelings for the Boston fans in a concise but soulful stroke, and hoped that they would be able to wait patiently, because "justice will not be absent, it will only be late, the championship is not far away, it will come back." ”

The letter was conveyed with the help of the microphone of the media, and this time it was no longer the paper media good television broadcasts that exerted its power, but the Internet, which showed his great power, and Leon's words were widely disseminated in a short time. For a time, the voices on the Internet about the release not only did not decrease, but became louder.

It's just that in reality, the fans who gathered in front of the police station dispersed and left, believing in Fox León and believing that his Super Green Army would win the championship this season.

Leon, on the other hand, remained in the police station in a tormented mood, waiting for the lawsuit to begin, and now he is glad to have brought in Rick Carlisle, who will not be pulled down from the team's training. The regular season is still a month away, and by that time he should be over the lawsuit and ready to devote himself to basketball.

It's just that Leon correctly judged the justice and objectivity of the law, but ignored the emotion and complexity of human beings, and underestimated the complexity of the legal provisions and the cumbersome procedures in the United States, and a protracted struggle will await him. (To be continued.) )