The Blacklist

Chapter 340: Excessive Enforcement or Murder
On the return flight, Elizabeth played with the one-cent coin and couldn't help asking, "Old Lei, you actually planned everything a long time ago, attending the auction, attracting Grayson's attention, tricking him with fake paintings, letting the Italian police arrest him, using the time difference to go to his house and get the USB drive from the safe?"

"Basically, it's the same!" Reddington nodded, "But I don't know what Lee did when we went to Grayson's house before!"

"I'm going to kill him!" Carrie said directly.

Reddington and Elizabeth looked at him in astonishment, and Gina nodded beside them, indicating that it was true!

"Why?" Reddington said, "I still have a use for him!"

Kerry glanced at him and said with contempt, "Forget it. What's the point of keeping him? He's a scum of society. The sooner he dies, the better! If you're worried about the Aegean Pier, just find a way to control one yourself. Don't count on him."

Reddington said: "That's true, but why not use a ready-made partner?"

"Come on, you're acting as if you didn't offend him this time and you're still cooperating. What the hell are you thinking?" Kerry pouted. "Old Lei, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but just do some honest business. I'm very optimistic about the current formal logistics industry. If you do this well, I think it will have a future!"

"Formal logistics industry?" Reddington thought, but still subconsciously retorted, "It's easy for you to say, but formal business is not that easy to do..."

Elizabeth, Gina and Dembe all found it funny and couldn't stop laughing when they saw the two bickering.
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After returning to Washington, Kerry took another day off and went to work on Tuesday. As soon as he arrived at the post office, Donald came to him and asked him about his opinion on a case. Today, the headline of The Washington Post was a report about a police officer shooting a suspect while on duty. The reporter questioned the police's excessive use of law enforcement and shooting suspects when it was unnecessary!

In Carrie's impression, this kind of thing is commonplace in the United States, and he didn't care at all. He said, "What's there to think about this? Don't police officers do this kind of thing often?" What he actually meant was that excessive police enforcement certainly exists, but the people who were killed were not good people, so there was no need to pay attention to these things.

Donald frowned and said, "But Reddington handed this matter over to our SER as a blacklist incident. He said that this is a long-standing phenomenon in the Baltimore Police Department. Some policemen deliberately shot and killed certain people, and there was someone behind the scenes directing them!"

Huh? Carrie was stunned, picked up the newspaper again, and soon remembered that there was indeed such a case in the original plot. Could it be this?

"Tang, what do you mean?" Carrie asked after putting down the newspaper after reading it again.

Donald said directly: "I believe that police officers have used excessive violence while on duty, but I don't believe that police officers can be instructed to become intentional killers!"

"Then let's investigate, starting with this case," said Carrie.

Donald looked at him and was silent for a moment before he said, "So you believe what Reddington said?"

Kerry nodded and said, "This matter has nothing to do with Lao Lei directly, but he put him on the blacklist. In this respect, I believe what he said. Of course, we have to verify the truth before we know it." Donald still trusted him very much, so he said, "Okay, then I'll investigate. If there are really police officers who did this, I will catch them all!"

Kerry nodded and said, "Go check it out, and you can rest assured. But you must pay attention to safety."

"I understand." Donald said. He knew what Carrie meant - if there were really police officers who were ordered to kill people, then they would definitely dare to kill the investigators! -
Upon returning to SER, Donald ordered a detailed investigation into the Baltimore police killings.

As usual, Elizabeth gave the mission briefing: "The murderer, Andrew McGinnis, was a rookie policeman with a good record; the deceased, Scotty Stansbury, was a drug-addicted gangster who had been in and out of prison and drug rehabilitation for twenty years and had recently been released on parole.

“According to Baltimore Police Department records, the revolver found at the scene and in Scottie’s hand was a gun that had been stolen three weeks earlier and Scottie was not a suspect.

"The Baltimore Police Department is currently conducting an internal investigation into the incident, but based on the available evidence, Officer McGinnis's shooting was legal and he only needs to undergo post-shooting psychological counseling before he can return to duty."

Donald added: "Reddington insisted that the shooting scene was staged and that Officer McGinnis deliberately shot the victim without being threatened. This is not an isolated case. Similar incidents have occurred in the Baltimore Police Department. If they are not exposed and stopped, more such incidents will occur in the future."

The agents looked at each other in bewilderment. As law enforcement officers, they were unwilling to believe that any police officer would do this. However, Reddington had provided too many blacklisted people before, and none of the targets were innocent, which made them believe that this was really possible.

Only Dembe, who had just joined SER, spoke up: "Tang, I've heard of similar things before, but they happened in other states a long time ago. Policemen were controlled by others because of money or drugs and became hired killers, but I don't know if that's the case this time."

Donald ordered the summons of McGinnis and his partner Parker, and Elizabeth and Nawabi interrogated the two separately.

According to the records of Nawabi's interrogation, the two police officers broke into the house with a search warrant because there was evidence that Scotty, who was on parole, was taking drugs again. After entering the house, Parker searched the living room and bedroom while McGinnis went into the kitchen. He only heard four gunshots and did not see the incident with his own eyes.

However, Elizabeth heard something wrong in McGinnis' statement: he claimed that the suspect fired two shots first, and he then fired two shots in return, the second shot hitting the suspect, and he obviously hesitated when answering.

According to the experience of the veteran detectives, if two shots are fired at a distance of less than five meters, the second shot will definitely hit high due to the recoil - guys like Carrie with amazing arm strength are exceptions! But the actual situation now is: the first shot hit high and missed, and the second shot hit the suspect's heart, which is not in line with common sense!

In addition, at such a distance, it is also very suspicious that Scotty, who "fired first", missed both shots.

Although there are such doubts, they cannot be used as evidence to accuse McGinnis because anything can happen at the law enforcement scene.

(End of this chapter)