Staying up late to watch a pre-announced press conference on a murder case

Last night, I could­n’t resist being a busy­body again. Years ago, I stayed up late to watch the live broad­cast of the Bagh­dad bomb­ing, and last night, I watched the live broad­cast of the news con­fer­ence about that famous mur­der. How­ev­er, the affairs of ordi­nary peo­ple in this coun­try clear­ly weren’t high enough for live broad­cast, so they could only be broad­cast on Wei­bo, and (*sen­si­tive* words*) could­n’t even be pub­lished. For some rea­son, this high­ly antic­i­pat­ed press con­fer­ence was repeat­ed­ly delayed, final­ly tak­ing place at 11 PM, and abrupt­ly con­clud­ed after more than half an hour due to lack of time.
 
Although Cit­i­zen A had turned over a new leaf and become a child leader, he had spent years teach­ing crim­i­nal law and crim­i­nal pro­ce­dure, and his old habits had­n’t changed. He was inevitably curi­ous about a late-night press con­fer­ence on a mur­der case. So he wait­ed patient­ly, await­ing an answer he knew the out­come of. To para­phrase Donne: “When the bell tolls, why ask for whom it tolls?” — When the wheels roll, why ask whose skulls they roll over?
 
The clip of the crowd watch­ing is record­ed below. I hear “Dang-dang-dang, rum­ble-rum­ble-rum­ble” in my ears. I don’t know why?
 
@FanjuDeputyDirector: Wen­zhou Deputy Pub­lic Secu­ri­ty Bureau Direc­tor Shen Qiang stat­ed: The vehi­cle involved in the acci­dent had poor brak­ing per­for­mance. The dri­ver admit­ted he was unable to evade the vehi­cle, which is con­sis­tent with eye­wit­ness tes­ti­mo­ny. The dri­ver bears pri­ma­ry respon­si­bil­i­ty. Qian Yun­hui, who crossed the road, bears sec­ondary respon­si­bil­i­ty.
 
# Argen­tine Primera División
I strong­ly rec­om­mend award­ing the Wen­zhou Pub­lic Secu­ri­ty Bureau the first prize in the Micro-Fic­tion Com­pe­ti­tion! [Angry] It took them so long to come up with this fic­tion, it must have been so dif­fi­cult!
 
@Morning News: [Live broad­cast of the “Yue­qing Strange Car Acci­dent” press con­fer­ence: Two eye­wit­ness­es offer no direct evi­dence] The Deputy Direc­tor of the Pub­lic Secu­ri­ty Bureau spoke first, explain­ing the ini­tial details of the inci­dent and hand­ing over any doubts to a “third par­ty” for inves­ti­ga­tion! Sec­ond­ly, they inves­ti­gat­ed the sus­pec­t’s issues, includ­ing inter­per­son­al rela­tion­ships and ani­mos­i­ty, rul­ing out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of sub­jec­tive guilt. Third­ly, they ques­tioned eye­wit­ness Qian Chengyu and anoth­er wit­ness, Huang Diyan, but found no direct evi­dence.
 
# Argen­tine Primera División
Put aside anger
To be fair, this log­ic is valid: first, the vic­tim did have a motive to be mur­dered; sec­ond, the sus­pect who direct­ly com­mit­ted the crime had noth­ing to do with the vic­tim (because it was designed that way); third, the eye­wit­ness was dri­ven away from the range of what might be con­sid­ered a valid wit­ness (was designed again?)… So the con­clu­sion may be ter­ri­ble, either it is a one in a bil­lion coin­ci­dence, or the real mur­der­er is
[Shut up] !
 
@Morning News: [Live broad­cast of the “Yue­qing Strange Car Acci­dent” press con­fer­ence: Ques­tions begin, reporters only allowed 5–6 ques­tions] First ques­tion: The bumper images and scratch­es in the police pho­tos don’t match the pho­tos post­ed by neti­zens! Answer: The police’s sense of respon­si­bil­i­ty won’t allow us to fal­si­fy infor­ma­tion. We can’t guar­an­tee the authen­tic­i­ty of the neti­zens’ pho­tos, but ours are absolute­ly gen­uine. We quick­ly arrived at the scene after receiv­ing the alarm. Vil­lagers tried to inter­vene, but the traf­fic police respect­ed their wish­es and did­n’t con­duct a direct inves­ti­ga­tion.
 
# Argen­tine Primera División
“The pub­lic secu­ri­ty’s sense of respon­si­bil­i­ty won’t allow us to fal­si­fy infor­ma­tion. We can’t guar­an­tee the authen­tic­i­ty of neti­zens’ pho­tos, but ours are absolute­ly gen­uine.” Regard­less of the truth, what’s tru­ly dis­turb­ing is that in this world, the cred­i­bil­i­ty of this “sense of respon­si­bil­i­ty” has plum­met­ed. If there weren’t “neti­zens’ pho­tos,” would such a triv­ial “traf­fic acci­dent” have even come with­in the scope of “sense of respon­si­bil­i­ty”?
 
@新聞晨报: [Live broad­cast of the “Yue­qing Strange Car Acci­dent” press con­fer­ence: Sec­ond ques­tion: Why did they just snatch the body away for exam­i­na­tion? Why could­n’t they mea­sure the speed of the car?] Answer: The acci­dent hap­pened in the morn­ing and the body left in the after­noon. As part of the inves­ti­ga­tion, the body must be exam­ined as evi­dence. An autop­sy requires the con­sent of the fam­i­ly, but no autop­sy has been per­formed yet. Ques­tion: Why was the case decid­ed with­out an autop­sy? Answer: Accord­ing to the exam­i­na­tion, it is con­sis­tent with a traf­fic acci­dent. The press con­fer­ence was too short to explain.
 
# Argenti­na:
“The press con­fer­ence is too short to explain” — God, if it start­ed at 7pm instead of 11pm, what’s the prob­lem with explain­ing it? Isn’t the point of a press con­fer­ence like this to lis­ten to expla­na­tions? If any­one feels there’s no time to lis­ten to expla­na­tions, please raise your hand.
[Piti­ful]
 
@Morning News: [Live broad­cast of the “Yue­qing Strange Car Acci­dent” press con­fer­ence: Ques­tion 7: Regard­ing Qian Yun­hui’s absence from home two nights before the acci­dent, after hear­ing some­one was plot­ting to harm him, are there any police inves­ti­ga­tions?] The staff mem­ber grabbed the micro­phone and refused to answer the ques­tion. The press con­fer­ence end­ed.
 
# Argenti­na:
Sure enough, their sense of respon­si­bil­i­ty was­n’t lying. They said they did­n’t have time, and they did­n’t! They real­ly did­n’t have time! They’re not sleep­ing! They said it was a traf­fic acci­dent, so why are they still ask­ing ques­tions that have noth­ing to do with it? The reporter is so annoy­ing, why are they pes­ter­ing me for over ten hours? I’m human too…
 
@红泥巴阿甲: Out­side the win­dow, the north wind is howl­ing! The tem­per­a­ture has dropped sud­den­ly again. to be, or not to be… to
sleep, or not to sleep…
 
# Argenti­na:
Reply to @熊言鸟语: I should have gone to bed over an hour ago, but I could­n’t help but wait for this “press con­fer­ence” where I already knew the out­come. Back then, we watched live broad­casts of peo­ple drop­ping bombs on Iraq. How can we not care about the affairs of our own peo­ple, right next to us? Reminds me of the nov­el “A Pre­med­i­tat­ed Mur­der”…
//@熊言鸟语: Those who are still awake are prob­a­bly still angry.
 
@Morning News: [Live broad­cast of the “Yue­qing Strange Car Acci­dent” press con­fer­ence: Press con­fer­ence con­clud­ed, reporters remained on scene to file reports] Morn­ing News cor­re­spon­dent Yang Yucai, dis­patched from Yue­qing, report­ed from the scene. After answer­ing sev­en ques­tions, the rel­e­vant Yue­qing offi­cials left. Many reporters, fear­ing they would miss their reports if they returned, remained at the scene, furi­ous­ly typ­ing away. The 15-hour bat­tle, from a lit­tle after 9 a.m. to mid­night, left every­one exhaust­ed. Morn­ing News will con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor this inci­dent.
 
# Argenti­na:
[Applause] No mat­ter what, I think we must applaud and cheer for our jour­nal­ist broth­ers and sis­ters tonight! We must cheer you on! If we have the chance, we will def­i­nite­ly buy you a drink [Cheers]
This world is only half full. Main­tain­ing a con­science and pur­su­ing the truth is what remains. Hold on!
 
@小李子小鞋小疯子: Dur­ing the ques­tion-and-answer ses­sion, the spokesper­son stat­ed: Reporters, please ask ques­tions relat­ed to the nature of the traf­fic acci­dent.
 
# Argenti­na:
Accord­ing to the con­text: First, reporters please ask ques­tions with­in the scope of the traf­fic acci­dent. No answers will be giv­en if they are beyond the scope. Sec­ond, traf­fic acci­dent issues are too tech­ni­cal. You won’t under­stand even if I tell you. Besides, I don’t have time. I have to cel­e­brate with a late-night snack.
[Chuck­ling] — You said this sto­ry is more inter­est­ing than a nov­el? No, it’s more inter­est­ing than the mon­key show on the street [Hum­ming to the right] [Hum­ming to the left]
 
# Argenti­na:
If you rec­on­cile a great griev­ance, there will inevitably be resid­ual griev­ances. How can you do good?
 
# Argenti­na:
[New Fairy Tale] A new chap­ter at the end of the sto­ry: The lie detec­tor in “The Emper­or’s New Clothes” is real! I’m delight­ed to hear that a high­ly pub­li­cized mur­der case in a cer­tain city was quick­ly resolved. To prove that this fatal­i­ty was a sim­ple traf­fic acci­dent, the police pushed poly­graph tech­nol­o­gy, still a chal­lenge world­wide, to the lim­it. If this tech­nol­o­gy is imple­ment­ed at the local sec­tion lev­el and above at the nation­al depart­ment lev­el, the erad­i­ca­tion of cor­rup­tion will be immi­nent! Next year’s Peace Prize is unde­ni­ably its, and it deserves it! The sons and daugh­ters of Chi­na, con­tin­ue their glo­ry!
 
Sup­ple­men­tary notes on the morn­ing of Decem­ber 30, 2010