At three that afternoon, an expanded meeting of the Party committee leadership was held in the Municipal Public Security Bureau's conference room. The bureau's Party committee members and the captains and deputy captains of each detachment attended.
Executive Deputy Director Hu Chunqiu had proposed the meeting, mainly because Zhang Hao's repeated arrests had prompted calls from city leaders, putting tremendous pressure on the entire Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Of course, Director Zhou had yet to feel any of that pressure.
After several city leaders had gotten nowhere with him, his phone had remained relatively quiet.
"As for the three charges against Zhang Hao-provocation and disturbance, gathering to disrupt public order in public places, and obstructing official duties-I personally feel there are points worth discussing. Judging by the circumstances at the time, he merely had his company's employees organize a grand welcoming ceremony. He had no subjective intent to break the law or commit a crime."
After Director Zhou finished his opening remarks and invited everyone to speak freely, Deputy Director Zhong Jiaqing was the first to speak.
Ordinarily, he might not have had the courage to openly contradict the director, but with the city leaders pressing him so hard, he had no choice but to pick a side.
"We personally witnessed more than a hundred luxury cars clogging the nearby streets, with over four or five hundred people stopping to watch. Traffic was paralyzed, and public order was seriously disrupted. We cannot judge Zhang Hao's subjective intentions. All we know is that, based on what happened, his suspected involvement in provocation and disturbance, gathering to disrupt public order in public places, and assaulting a police officer is an indisputable fact."
Cai Xiaobo's reply rang out with conviction.
*Hmph. After two years under the chief's influence, I know the Public Security