Chapter 567: A Riot Caused by a Voice Actor
The frequency of group fights in taverns near the pier in this era seems to have become an implicit measure of the city's prosperity. In normal times, the police are usually late, after all, a tired sailor is always better controlled than a sailor who is on fire.
But the police seemed to arrive at the scene much faster than usual today, and just as the American sailors and British sailors were fighting each other, a shrill whistle sounded, and a group of white policemen armed with batons and shields ran in.
Today, the British police in Hong Kong are not only extremely fast, but the people sent to maintain order are all white-skinned policemen, which is also different from the usual style of always letting those Asian patrols wearing white hats in front of the pot.
Of course, leaving all the white police to do the work would inevitably lead to the embarrassment of running out of manpower, not to mention that the team that rushed to maintain order was also mixed with many soldiers of the John Bull garrison armed with rifles.
Obviously, the good play directed and staged by Wang Pineapple in her hotel room has touched the sensitive nerves of the British authorities in Hong Kong, and when they could not guess what the so-called "potential safety hazard" incident was, they immediately sent white policemen and soldiers who thought they were more reliable to the town as soon as they encountered the slightest disturbance.
It remains to be seen whether these white policemen, who usually rely on Asian patrols and do hard work, are reliable, but their position in dealing with the brawls between British and American sailors can be seen immediately as long as they are not blind.
The white cops, armed with batons and shields, beat up the American sailors as soon as they entered, after all, they were too conspicuous in the crowd of uniformly dressed sailors beating each other.
After the two sides of the brawl were separated, the police asked all the American sailors to crouch down and wait for questioning and body searches, including those who did not join the fighting group, while the British sailors who participated in the brawl could stand by and watch the Americans be questioned by the police.
The reason for this procedure is really not to be regarded as a deviation from the Hong Kong British police, who were ordered to seriously check the identities of these American sailors, and it is said that Shangfeng has reason to believe that these people are hiding spies who deliberately provoke conflicts.
"Shit! Why should those Brits stand and watch the excitement while we crouch down and be humiliated? This move by the British police in Hong Kong quickly attracted the criticism of American sailors.
The American sailors who jumped out to make the first bird were soon given another meal of sticks and then taken back to the police station for more detailed questioning.
"Hey! We can't just let them take our brothers away, we have to take all of us for interrogation! "There were loud protests in the crowd against the unfair actions of the British police.
"Get out the troublemaker, he's over there, come with me!" Henderson beckoned the baton-wielding cops as he dragged the melon-eating crowd towards the source of the protests.
Having been in the position of Inspector Hong Kong Ying for so many years, Henderson has rarely seen a group of sailors of this magnitude. In the past, even if there was a case of a mistake in a fight that resulted in death, it is rare that the two sides of such a brawl now have a steady stream of back-ups to join the battle.
Henderson speculated that the brawl was deliberately instigated and that the culprits did not give up on stirring up trouble after the police arrived to take control of the situation.
Following the direction from which the protests came, Henderson led a few Hong Kong-British white police officers to a stone wall facing the street.
Those Chinese with braids had long been blasted aside by them, and now there were only a few people in the corner.
"Hurry up! Yes, that's you! Henderson pointed to a sleek tavern hostess.
The male voice that had just opened his mouth to continue to stir up trouble, Henderson thought that there was no need to embarrass the scantily clad tavern hostess. After hearing Henderson's shouts, Wang Pineapple lifted the hem of her skirt and escaped from the encirclement of several white policemen.
"Who are you? Documents? "Henderson asks for papers from a white blonde man who is barricaded in a corner.
"Sir, I didn't take part in the fight, in fact I was here to stop it......" the white man defended.
"Wait, I know your voice, you were the one who just shouted, right?" As soon as the man spoke, Henderson recognized the voice.
"No, sir, I can't say anything at this time that would deepen the misunderstanding, I'm a U.S. Navy officer. You can ask the gentlemen next to me again, maybe ......," the white man said, pulling out his papers.
"Officer? Hehe, I said how can there be more and more people fighting, it turns out that there are officers mixed in here, uh, Captain Phil, then please come with us!" Henderson is convinced that this is the same person who has just shouted the protest slogan.
"Oh, no! The British are going to take our officers! ”
"God, that captain doesn't even have a single pleat on his clothes, why should you take him!"
Someone from the other side of the crowd was shouting those provocative shouts again.
Bang! Before Henderson could deal with the new protest provocations, a gunshot rang out.
"The Brit shot! Run! ”
Generally speaking, when dealing with this kind of group fight, the policemen with guns will press the formation at a relatively distant place to avoid unnecessary misfire.
The meaning of the existence of guns in such occasions is generally only a deterrent, and in most cases, no one will go up to the point of beating the police who come to maintain order.
Today, because they have to deal with riots that are very likely to be caused by spies, the British authorities in Hong Kong do not trust Asian patrols, and when the police force is seriously insufficient, they can only bring a team of soldiers with rifles to make up the numbers.
These sailors did not do a lot of work in group fights, but after the fight, they were stared at by so many soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition, and it should be the first time for the sailors present, and it was inevitable that they would be nervous.
At the juncture when their own officers were about to be taken away for investigation, there was a sudden "gunshot", and some people were encouraging them to escape, and it was difficult to avoid this explosive situation.
The attitude of the British police in Hong Kong who had been pulling the strings after entering the scene finally triggered a collective explosion of American sailors, and some sailors who had already squatted on the ground suddenly rushed to the side of the crowd before they had time to evacuate.
The number of policemen holding shields and sticks was not large, and the soldiers with guns could only line up and watch from a distance because they did not receive the order to shoot, and the scene was out of control for a while.
Henderson didn't expect those drunken sailors to dare to blow up in front of so many heavily loaded soldiers, and he didn't know what to do for a while.
"Ensign, let your men fire warning shots!" Henderson said to the ensign leading the team.
"Mr. Advisor, I have not received the order to shoot, and the sailors are not a threat to us, so I will not accept your suggestion." Said the stereotypical ensign.
Seeing that the British could not effectively control the sailors scattered in all directions, the American sailors who were still honest also moved, and the situation immediately became more and more uncontrollable.
In fact, most of the people in the neighborhood who are begging for a living are not good people, but gamblers, drunkards, and poor people who can't get by. Seeing that everyone was running around, and the police couldn't control the situation, someone immediately started to fish in troubled waters and rob while the fire was burning.
In a short time, the shops that passed by were smashed and looted, and the flames of burning buildings were everywhere, and even the British fired warning shots to no avail.
And at this time, Wang Pineapple, who caused this riot, was also scared and trembled, as a voice actor who stays at home all the year round, where has she ever seen such a scene!
"I'm going to go, I can't hold this face!" The cat muttered to herself behind the counter of a store.
If it hadn't been for the simple planning of her escape route before the riots, Wang Pineapple would have ended up in the same fate as the women on the street who were being held on their shoulders.
However, as an amateur troublemaker, the escape route she designed was also very amateurish, and the expected route was soon blocked by those ruthless people who grabbed the red eye.
What? Didn't you say she still had a stub in her hand.38? To be honest, she still hasn't figured out how to open the gun's safety uh! The "gunshot" just now was just the sound of a firecracker she lit in a small tin can.
"It's broken, and the shop next door has also been ordered by Diao Min, I'm afraid I can't stay here anymore!" Wang Pineapple, who did her own evil, found that her current situation was really a house leak, and it rained overnight.