The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 118

118. Assaulting a Police Officer

“Charge! Am I seeing things right now?”

Team Leader Boy, spotting the officers emerging from the Violent Crimes Unit headquarters, pointed at them with a steel pipe from atop the patrol car and shouted.

“What the hell?! We’re juvenile offenders! If you come any closer, I’ll kill you all! Even if I kill you, I’ll only get two years!”

“Is he crazy…?”

One of his friends was filming the whole scene from a distance with his phone.

The team leader frowned deeply at the mention of juvenile offenders.

“Being a juvenile offender is quite the privilege… huh?”

“Huh?”

Just as the boy on the patrol car was menacingly waving the steel pipe, Shin Hae-soo stepped forward.

Given Hae-soo’s track record of suppression, which sometimes resulted in the other party being crippled or even killed, Oh Gyeong and the team leader rushed to stop him. But before they could, the boy swung his steel pipe.

“Don’t come closer, I said!!”

*Thwack! Crack!*

The steel pipe swung by the boy struck Hae-soo squarely on the head. The boy froze, his friends stopped moving, and the Violent Crimes Unit officers were stunned.

A trickle…

A stream of blood ran down Hae-soo’s head. Hae-soo raised his hand, brushed the steel pipe away with the back of his hand, and opened his mouth slightly.

“Special obstruction of official duties, Ha-ru, suppress him.”

“Yes.”

From the moment Hae-soo was hit, Ha-ru, who had been glaring with murderous intent, shot off the ground as soon as those words were spoken.

*Whoosh!*

First, he leaped onto the patrol car as if flying, grabbed the boy holding the steel pipe by the scruff of his neck, hooked his leg, and knocked him over.

*Bang!*

He stomped on his back, twisted the arm holding the steel pipe backward.

*Snap!*

“Aaaagh!!”

He broke the fourteen-year-old boy’s arm without a moment’s hesitation. Not stopping there, he jumped off the patrol car and ran towards another boy.

“D-don’t come closer! Don’t come closer!”

The boy instinctively swung his baseball bat at Ha-ru, but Ha-ru moved faster, darted inside, grabbed the wrist holding the swinging bat and the boy’s collar, put his back against the boy’s chest, and slammed him down.

*Thud! Crack-!*

“Kkeuaaack!!”

As a finishing move, he bent the elbow of the arm holding the baseball bat in the opposite direction and darted towards the next boy.

*Snap- Crackle-!*

“Kkaaack!”

“Ugh! Mom!!”

One by one, the boys who had been vandalizing the patrol car were lying on the ground, screaming. Their arms and legs were twisted in grotesque directions.

Even though they were the same kids who had been causing trouble just moments ago, claiming to be juvenile offenders, they were now pitiful.

“Ah.”

“Huh…?”

The team leader, Oh Gyeong, and the youngest member all had their eyes wide open and their mouths agape without realizing it.

They were astonished by the dazzling movements that were hard to even follow and the ruthlessness with which he mercilessly broke the limbs of the young boys.

Hae-soo was also slightly surprised by Ha-ru’s actions, but in a different way.

‘To stop at this level…’

Hae-soo had clearly sensed murderous intent from Ha-ru when he saw the blood on Hae-soo’s head. With that level of murderous intent, he thought Ha-ru would gouge out their eyes or break their necks. He was prepared to stop him and gradually teach him the proper level of suppression, but there was no need.

‘He’s made great progress.’

Hae-soo nodded as he watched Ha-ru standing among the groaning boys writhing on the ground, wearing a ‘Did I do well?’ expression.

* * *

The boy who had been on top of the patrol car, Lee Jang-guk, was fourteen years old but not yet past his birthday, so he was protected by the juvenile law [laws that treat minors differently from adults].

The reason they were playing on top of the police car was very simple.

A few hours earlier, a report had come in that boys were drinking and making noise in the playground, and the police who responded had lectured them and contacted their parents to take them home. Everyone thought it was over, but this incident happened.

It turned out that the leader of the boys, Lee Jang-guk, had a colorful record. He had a whopping 15 prior offenses, more than his age.

Seeing that record, Ha-ru tilted his head.

“Why is a repeat offender with 15 prior offenses walking around freely? If I had a child, I would be afraid for them to go to school with this child.”

Ha-ru asked Hae-soo, but the team leader frowned and answered.

“That’s the law. There are quite a few adults with more prior offenses than their age, too.”

“That’s strange. I thought the punishment would be increased according to the number of prior offenses, but I don’t understand why that’s happening.”

“Tell me about it. Our country is a great place to live, but it’s *too* good to live in, so it’s a problem.”

“That’s right. I understand why Hae-soo… Senior Shin uses excessive force.”

Oh Gyeong nodded at Ha-ru’s words.

“That’s right, that’s why our rookie gave us a great… excessive suppression today. Is it because you live in the same house that you resemble each other?”

Oh Gyeong shifted his gaze from Ha-ru to Hae-soo, and Hae-soo avoided his gaze.

Hae-soo felt a twinge of guilt because the way Ha-ru mercilessly broke their limbs was so much like him.

* * *

The next day.

*Bang!*

“Bring me the bastard who did this to my son!!”

A man with a burly build and snake tattoos covering both arms appeared, violently opening the door to the Violent Crimes Unit’s office.

In his right hand, he was grabbing the collar of a boy who should have been in the hospital, wearing a patient gown.

He had only gotten a medical certificate and dragged him to the police station.

As it was one of the expected scenarios, the Violent Crimes Unit received a call from the Major Crimes Unit and rushed over.

“Oh, so you’re the Violent Crimes Unit guys? Who did this to my kid, huh?! Which bastard was it!”

Ha-ru raised his hand and answered confidently.

“It was me.”

“…You? You? *You* broke my son’s arm with that hand? Is that true?”

Jang-guk lowered his head and answered in a barely audible voice.

“…Yes.”

Unlike yesterday, he looked completely deflated. It was obvious at a glance.

The child who smashed the patrol car because he was angry that they had contacted his home, the child who became a docile lamb in front of his father—there was a 99 percent chance that he had grown up being beaten by his father.

As soon as he answered, the man raised his hand.

“You whore, how dare you break the arm of my precious son!!”

Just as his large hand, calloused and rough, was about to strike Ha-ru’s face, Ha-ru’s eyes sparkled.

*Thwack- Thud- Crack-*

Ha-ru leaned his upper body back slightly to avoid it, pushed in the direction of the swing, rotated him around, placed his arm on his shoulder, pressed down on his wrist, and bent his elbow in the opposite direction.

“Kkeuaaaack!”

His flesh was so thick that it didn’t break immediately, but it was enough to cause pain comparable to breaking.

Hae-soo watched the man groaning in pain, unable to push away Ha-ru’s slender body, and stepped forward only after about 5 seconds.

It seemed that the other officers felt the same way, as none of them stepped forward.

“Stop, don’t break it.”

“Yes.”

“You, you bitch!!”

As the man flared up again and lunged at him after Ha-ru released him, this time Hae-soo grabbed his arm and forcibly made him put his hands together politely.

“If you cause a disturbance at the police station like your son, you’ll end up like your son. Take a look at this first.”

Hae-soo showed him the video of Lee Jang-guk smashing the patrol car with his friends and hitting Hae-soo in the head with a steel pipe last night.

Jang-guk’s father frowned as he watched it, pushed the phone away, and shouted.

“I don’t know! I don’t care about any of this! Isn’t it true that that female police officer broke the arms and legs of four kids!! Give me a settlement, ten million won [approximately $7,500 USD]!!”

Now the main point came out.

He had forcibly taken the child, who was hospitalized to get money, out of the hospital because he thought it was the right time.

The team leader was dumbfounded and chuckled, while Hae-soo and Ha-ru remained motionless with the same expression, not saying anything.

At that sight, Jang-guk’s father pointed at Ha-ru and shouted.

“If you don’t give it to me, I’ll report it to the police, no, the prosecutor’s office, and I’ll spread it all over the internet, so you know! Do you know how many reporters I know?”

“Yes, go ahead. Your son will only have extortion added to his charge of obstructing official duties.”

“Shut up, let’s see who wins!”

He turned around and walked away, huffing and puffing. Lee Jang-guk was stunned by the words that his crime would increase, and stared blankly at Hae-soo and his father.

“What are you doing! Hurry up and get out here!”

“Ah, yes.”

Only after the father and son left did the police station become quiet. The Major Crimes Unit 3 team leader clicked his tongue as he watched Lee Jang-guk and his father walking away through the window.

“Soo-cheol, I just looked it up, Lee Jang-guk’s father, Lee Gi-wang, that bastard has 9 prior offenses too, he’s a real thug among thugs.”

Team Leader Kwak nodded.

“He grew up under that kind of father… tsk, that’s too bad.”

“Yes, we need to fix his habits properly this time.”

“That’s right, the more unfortunate they are, the stronger we have to be, because they’ll do bigger things when they become adults.”

“Yes.”

But Lee Gi-wang was faster than the Violent Crimes Unit had expected.

* * *

The Violent Crimes Unit proceeded with the complaint against Lee Jang-guk and the other children as planned. In response, Lee Jang-guk’s father filed a counter-complaint for excessive force because Ha-ru did not agree to a settlement, and posted the incident on the internet.

[Gangjin Police Station Police Beat Up Fourteen-Year-Old Child.]

-His mother ran away with another man early on, and he’s a single father who works hard day and night to raise his son.

Near the police station, his son was playing with sticks with his friends when a Gangjin Police Station police officer broke his son’s arm, saying it was dangerous. No, it wasn’t just broken, it’s completely broken and he’s wearing a cast.

Even his son’s friends all had their arms or legs broken. What is going on? Is this really South Korea?

I’m really scared. Is it okay for the police, who are supposed to uphold the law and protect the safety of the people, to harass children so mercilessly in the name of public power?

Right now, the police are ignoring our child’s injuries and are instead reporting him for obstructing official duties. Is this a country?

(Picture of son’s broken arm) (Picture of cast) (Pictures of friends)

┗Wow, crazy ㅅㅂ [Korean slang expressing disbelief or anger]

┗As expected, cops are cops

┗Strong against the weak, so pathetic

┗I knew it. It’s such a waste to pour taxes into those cop bastards, cut off all my money and run a vigilante group

┗Seriously, if this is true, aren’t the police completely insane? If it’s dangerous, why break the arms of innocent kids instead of taking away the sticks? Are they psychos?

┗Hang in there, brother, justice will prevail. I want to help you somehow, I know some reporters, so please contact me.

┗[MyMoneyYourMoney] I’m lawyer Kim Sang-cheon from the law firm. I think I can help you with this case. Please contact me. (Paid call 1500155)

┗Gangjin Station? Isn’t that where Detective Shin is? Did Detective Shin do that? No, that can’t be, our hero!

* * *

The post, with its sensational title, provocative and anger-inducing content, and supporting photos, spread rapidly on a community site.

The Gangjin Police Station had to receive numerous inquiries regarding the incident.

At the Violent Crimes Unit headquarters, the officers also checked the post.

“Ignorance is bold, they say, even though there’s a video…”

The team leader frowned and shook his head at Oh Gyeong’s words.

“Um… the problem is that this thug actually did something, but the video has to be more sensational and spread more widely than this article for the explanation to be properly made. Even if Hae-soo was hit in the head with a steel pipe, so he can be found not guilty, the public may not think so… If it’s divided in half, the problem gets bigger.”

“Ah… the sight of middle schoolers smashing the police car is definitely sensational…”

“Um…”

Hae-soo frowned as he lifted a dumbbell. He felt uncomfortable because it seemed like he had caused damage to Ha-ru and the police station for something he had ordered and caused himself.

He hadn’t expected Lee Jang-guk’s father to come out so recklessly. He thought he should have broken both of his arms back then to prevent him from writing the post.

“Let’s release a rebuttal article right away, I’ll do it.”

“Ah, Dae-seong?”

“Yes, I need some help.”

“Okay, tell them to spread it as quickly as possible.”

“I understand.”

* * *

Shin Hae-soo asked Ahn Seo-eun to attach all the videos of what happened at the police station along with the rebuttal article.

However, no matter how reliable the article was based on the video, netizens did not accept it as it was, as it was biased to one side. Some even said that there must have been some reason why they attacked the police.

As the team leader feared, opinions were divided almost in half.

And now, a boy is looking at the data of the events before and after in a corner of the room.

Jeong Young-soo, he widened his eyes as he looked at Ha-ru’s picture on the Gangjin Police Station website.

A familiar face was wearing a uniform.

“So, this goddess entered the Violent Crimes Unit and is suffering this kind of damage… This thug father and son dare… They need to be taught a lesson.”

Young-soo tapped the keyboard and mouse quickly as if playing the piano.