"I want to see a lawyer, I want to see my lawyer, this is police brutality!"
Having scored a big hit, the private detective was delighted, grinning from ear to ear.
But the swift joint action by the LAPD and FBI showed him the power of the American iron fist when it gets serious.
"See a lawyer? Don't even think about a lawyer; you might not walk out of here alive."
A standard American brawny cop ripped off the detective's hood and said with a sinister smile.
"I'll sue you, I'll expose this to the media!"
The private detective, long operating on the edge of the law, naturally knew the strength of the black police, but that did not mean he would immediately relent.
A police threat is nonsense; showing toughness first can secure the best terms of cooperation.
The daily workload for American police is extremely heavy, and under this pressure, law enforcement agencies generally use a principle of plea bargaining.
