Chapter 1073: A Gift
The Thing, Ben Grimm, barged into the Manhattan Police Department with trash and plastic bags piled on his head...
Apparently, this extremely violent-looking researcher hadn't been able to take the pressure and had come to the police station to "turn himself in"!
Watching Ben Grimm sign the act and receive a Mutant Union certificate from Castle that read, "Red all over, a powerful Thing, E-rank Mutant"...
Chief George finally let out a long sigh of relief. New York's "Mutant Secret Registration Act" had gotten off to a good start...
All that remained was for the judge, whom President Ellis had vouched for with his own character, to deliver a verdict everyone could accept. Then New York's social order would return to normal.
"Public trust" was a curious thing. It had the power to put people at ease. When the government's "public trust" reached a certain level, society as a whole would become orderly.
In an era like this, when media ethics were poor but the media itself was extraordinarily powerful, it would be a tremendous test for the judges.
They wouldn't care about lawsuits that weren't interesting, because ordinary verdicts brought them no benefit.
But Alvin and Johnny's case was sure to be whipped up into a huge scandal...
Every decision that judge made and every word he said would be put under a microscope and debated. Then some media workers would do everything they could to stir up controversy and grab people's attention.
They were driven by profit, not justice...
Chief George admired the "hot-tempered but kind" side of Alvin that he'd shown before the whole world!
He didn't know Alvin had gotten himself into this mess because he couldn't resist beating up Johnny...
But Alvin's "Godfather" attitude, standing up for a member of his