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Four Chinese tourists died in Arizona. Lawyer accuses police of rash conclusion

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Four Chinese tourists died in Arizona. Lawyer accused police of rash conclusion (Los Angeles News) Four Chinese tourists were driving to the Grand Canyon in Arizona on the 24th of this month...

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(Los Angeles News) Four Chinese tourists were hit and killed by a Dallas Cowboys promotional bus on the Arizona highway on the 24th of this month while driving to the Grand Canyon. The day after the incident, the Asian Public Safety Bureau, which was responsible for investigating the accident, announced that the accident was caused by Chinese tourists who failed to stop at the STOP sign. However, people in the legal profession criticized the local police for jumping to conclusions without going through normal fatal accident investigation procedures. This is actually a disregard for human life and a completely discriminatory approach against Chinese tourists.

Lawyer Deng Hong, a researcher at the Li Changyu Institute of Criminal Forensic Science, said that generally in traffic accidents involving fatalities, the police must cordon off the scene to collect all physical evidence, measure the skid marks on the ground, the location of the impact, and collect witnesses. After the testimonies of both parties are analyzed, the braking system, air bag system, and black box data box installed in the car must be interpreted, and the coroner's death report, the driver's blood test report, and other materials must be comprehensively analyzed to reach a conclusion. These procedures often take more than two months.

Lawyer Deng Hong, who has handled hundreds of fatal accidents in the past 19 years, said that it was impossible for the Arizona State Police to conduct an investigation according to normal procedures when they made such a conclusion on the second day of the accident.

>Tourists who want to go to the Grand Canyon West from the casino usually go south on Highway 93. The north-south road in the section where the incident occurred is separated by a middle wasteland. The left turn to Highway 25 is an H-shaped road. Motorists must first turn left from the south road to the middle island, and then cross the northbound lane of Highway 93. Judging from photos from the scene, the front of the bus hit a van driven by a Chinese tourist.

Lawyer Deng Hong said that the driver's argument that he did not stop at the STOP sign was unconvincing and was probably the bus driver's excuse to shirk responsibility. When all four Chinese tourists died without supporting evidence, the police investigation should carefully examine all physical evidence.

Especially five minutes before the accident, the Cowboys announcer MICKEY SPAGNOLA in the bus posted a message on his Twitter platform,?#27491;While rushing eighty kilometers away from the casino, our next stop, at three o'clock, is at GAMEWORS This shows that the fan club activities are about to start at three o'clock, and according to the prescribed speed, it will take at least an hour and a half to reach their destination. Therefore, the possibility of the bus driver speeding in order to rush to the game cannot be ruled out.

Arizona has been the state that has been the most aggressive in rejecting new immigrants for more than a decade. In addition to organizing self-defense forces to intercept illegal immigrants, local white people also tend to handle cases involving people of color in a hasty manner. In January this year, Jiang Yue, a Chinese student studying in Arizona, was shot and killed after being rear-ended by a white woman named Holly Davis. On March 20, Chinese student Shi Xiaolin was chatting in Chinese with her classmates on the light rail and was verbally abused and beaten by a white woman, Kalie Mclntyre Rutledge, on suspicion of racial discrimination. However, the police took the matter lightly and did not severely punish the murderer. In this major incident involving four Chinese tourists, the police made a hasty conclusion without identifying any physical evidence or reconstructing the scene. This will inevitably make the outside world think that the police are protecting the Cowboys and discriminating against Chinese tourists.

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