Chapter 152: The Sin of Public Opinion
Julia walked out the door to the headquarters room.
She didn't look back.
It wasn't until she left the headquarters of the "Unity Block" and came to the bus stop outside that she turned her head and looked at the five-story headquarters building hidden in the shade hundreds of steps away from the bus stop.
"Travis ......"
She murmured the name in her mind, and there was only exhaustion and deep doubt in her eyes.
And—
"Navaly ......"
Julia clenched her palms into fists, placed them to her lips, and turned her head again, as if to hide her expression, her eyes down.
The bus pulled into the platform just then, and she let out a soft breath, stepped over the pedals, and stepped into the bus.
……
The next day.
Masip's death caused quite a stir.
As the founder of Unity Block, he has a great reputation and prestige in the Los Angeles region and throughout California.
As the undisputed leader of the "Unity Block", although he has no intention of running, he can represent more than 100,000 votes in the "Unity Block" by himself, which is a force to be reckoned with by California senators.
So in the past, even if the "Unity Block" would face a joint review by the FBI and the LAPD, it would still be able to maintain because the "Unity Block" represented enough votes to win a protective force for them in the House.
Now, however, things are starting to change.
At first, many people on the Internet were still skeptical about Masip's death - as an American, questioning the government is like an endowment in their bones, and for most people in this multi-immigrant country, they tend to have a scrutinizing attitude towards anything that can be connected with the police and the authorities, and they want to see a little bit of it.
But soon, as the police released more and more evidence - including the fingerprints on the body of the deceased Catherine, the footprints near the death scene......
And the most critical thing is that the Los Angeles Police Department also released several video materials -
The first video is the entrance and exit surveillance of the café that afternoon, according to the surveillance video, after the meeting between Masip and Catherine in the café, the two left the café side by side, and chatted while going out, but it can be seen that the mood of the two people seems to be a little not good;
The second video is the surveillance video on the road near the shade of the tree at the scene of the death, from which it can be seen that before Catherine's death, Masip and Catherine had come to the scene side by side, but just after Catherine's presumed time of death, the surveillance video on the road showed a panicked figure coming out of it, whose body shape was the same as Masip, and he stumbled and fled;
There is also a third, and final, video of Mazepp's suicide in the detention center's detention room. In the picture, Masip beats his tie to the railing, makes a loop that just fits into his neck - and then twists it several times, and finally ties a dead knot, and then strangles himself alive in this way.
The clues of the case, as well as the video materials, are like a mountain of ironclad evidence, which has finalized the fact that Masip committed suicide in fear of crime.
Next, the LAPP released what they believed was Masip's motive — because the Los Angeles Times had accused Masip of "obscure and uninvestigated possibilities" in the past for Unity Neighborhood, leading to a grudge against the LA Times and the reporters involved.
And just after meeting Catherine, the two had some confrontation during the exchange, which caused the resentment in Masip's heart to explode, and he later used an excuse to invite Catherine to the inaccessible place and strangle her.
But in the detention center, knowing that he would be tried by the court, Macip felt broken and committed suicide.
From the evidence to the motive, all kinds of things are conclusive.
- As a result, the image of Masip, as well as his reputation, began to show signs of collapse.
On the Internet, many people have criticized Masipu and made his photos into "memes" or spoof photos.
Although the members of the "Solidarity Block" and those who have been shaded by it have spoken out on the Internet, wanting to maintain the image of Masip, not believing that it will be the truth, in the face of the torrent of public opinion, their actions are like a mantis arm as a car.
Especially then, things escalated further, which made many people who originally had full trust in Masip feel lost for the first time.
Because Catherine's family also posted videos on the Internet.
In the video, they tearfully denounce Masip's "atrocities" and recount their daughter's proud past achievements — graduating from the best high school in the community, attending the University of Chicago's journalism department, and later working for the Los Angeles Times, a conscientious, life-loving, and good daughter, all of which were ruined by Masip......
Especially at the end of the video, they also mentioned something that had never been mentioned before - after the police identification, Catherine had been sexually sexualized. The traces of the invasion, and the DNA composition in her body, are consistent with that of masip.
As soon as this video came out, it caused an uproar.
And the Los Angeles Police Department also stood up shyly at this time, admitting that they did find out about this fact - but because Catherine's family was still in collapse at the time, in order to take care of their emotions, and the only suspect had committed suicide, they did not announce the news to the public in the first place.
All of a sudden, the accusations against Masip reached its peak.
The people who wanted to defend him before also put down their keyboards at this moment and chose to be silent.
All over the United States is unanimous, and all that remains is the ridicule and angry scolding of Masip, as well as the voices of the "Solidarity Block".
At the same time, more and more unclear news of true and false news is also circulating on the Internet:
Masip once took the member's child to a closed room and didn't know what he was doing, but the child has been depressed ever since......
During Masip's tenure, Solidarity Block channeled millions of dollars in benefits to an unidentified company, which was suspected to be Masip's sole proprietorship......
There have been many sex scandals and other negative news in the primary and secondary schools of the "Unity Block", but all of them have been suppressed by Masip alone......
In the whirlpool of public opinion, the voice of anger against Masip became more and more loud, and the people who spoke for him before did not even remain silent, but turned their guns and rushed to the front line of insulting Massip.
Public opinion and public opinion, under the deliberate guidance, vented towards Masip and the "Solidarity Block" behind him, and the image of both of them plummeted and went straight to the bottom.
Instigate.
Sonatata.
Storm.
No one cared about the dead anymore, and "Masip" had become a frozen image, a symbol of the "ill-intentioned hypocrite".
In order to salvage the image of the "Unity Block", the new president Travis held a press conference to apologize to Catherine's family and announce that the "Unity Block" would pay tens of millions of dollars in compensation to their family.
Although this move objectively saved some of the image of the "Unity Block", it was undoubtedly an act of cutting the seat of the "Unity Block" that would completely sever ties with Massip's philosophy.
As a result, Masip's reputation completely fell into the abyss of not being able to rise again.
"A few days ago, in an interview with reporters, rapper Kanye attacked Masip Senaneez for his hypocrisy and decided to write a song to rebuke him......"
"Former black president of the United States. Guanhai said that although Masip Senanes has been saying that he wants to fight for the rights of minorities, what he has done has actually deeply tarnished the image of black people. Guanhai 'feels deep regret'......"
"LeBron, a famous NBA player, made an angry statement when he was talked about the 'Masip Senanes incident' - he believes that the best way to improve black rights is to eliminate bad blacks like Masip Senanes and let more good blacks go - after that, LeBron showed reporters the public welfare project he participated in ......"
From the general public to celebrities, everyone blamed, ridiculed, and angrily scolded Masip Senanes.
His good deeds in the past are only deliberate forgeries;
His heartfelt speeches were seen as a tool to stir up public opinion.
From coast to coast, the name Masip Senanes, became a "liar, murderer, sex. Aggressor, love. Synonymous with "pedophilia".
Almost no one believes that Masip is innocent anymore.
Only a very small number of people still stick to their original position.
They hid in the shadows, looking for a chance to clear Masip's name.
(End of chapter)