This is how the Chinese deal with Corrupt Cops!

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It appears, based on these extremely graphic images, that the Chinese people has a different way of dealing with corrupt officials. As Shanghaiist reports, a riot involving around 1,000 people broke out last Saturday in Cangnan county of Wenzhou city, Zhejiang province, resulting in the hospitalization of five chengguan, China's notoriously abusive and under-regulated urban enforcement officials. The alleged cause for the riots was the five's brutally killing a civilian. According to reports, the chengguan "hit the man with a hammer until he started to vomit blood, because he was trying to take pictures of their violence towards a woman, a street vendor." This man later died while being rushed to the hospital. Given the following images of civilian retribution; is it any wonder, the powers that be in China fear social unrest?

Background

Chengguan is a name given to the City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau, a municipality police that exists in every Chinese city. Chengguan are notorious for their brutality and generally hated far and wide for it. Their purpose is to enforce municipal bylaws, but they like to resort to violence and often use it against those with no means to fight back.]
The incident began...

Recently, a man noticed Chengguan abuse a local female vendor in Cangnan County of Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, and pulled out his cell phone camera to document their notorious brutality.

Chengguan didn’t like it and since they enjoy almost limitless impunity, they had the man hit in the head with a hammer.

The following report by SCMP describes what happened immediately after the five's act of violence:

"Angered by their violence, the crowd surrounded the officials and prevented them from leaving the scene. The tension further increased after internet rumours [sic] began circulating that they had beaten an onlooker to death.

Eventually the officials were forced to seek refuge in a van, according to eyewitnesses at the scene. Members of the crowd carrying sticks and stones then smashed the van and assaulted them through windows, they told South Metropolis Daily"

The crow was shouting for the chengguan to be murdered on the spot for what they did, yelling: "Kill them! Kill them!" They proceeded to beat the five until they were bloodied and unconscious, and later collectively tipped over the ambulance that had arrived to provide medical treatment.

But this is not the first time...

This incident is yet another chapter in the seemingly endless saga of both chengguan brutality and corresponding civilian backlashes: The sentencing of just a few years in prison to four chengguan who collectively killed a watermelon vender in July 2013 incited widespread protests on Weibo, while a villager poured sulfuric acid on 18 chengguan in Xiamen just a few months prior. Just one month before the Xiamen incident, the execution of street vendor Xia Junfeng for killing two chengguan also sparked public outrage, with netizens comparing the severity of Xia's sentencing with the arguably unfairly lenient suspended death sentence of Gu Kailai for confessing to the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.
As LiveLeak concluded...

This is the inevitable consequence of letting the public to lose faith in the law enforcement and the justice system, especially when dealing with wrongdoings of government officials. There are other nations headed down the same path.

 

[Mike Manson]

while a villager poured sulfuric acid on 18 chengguan in Xiamen just a few months prior.

In Jimei part of Xiamen.

Chengguan are actually some sort of gangsters. They are not real police, and everybody hates them. There were incidents where Chinese soldiers fought against them...

Chengguan Brawl with ‘PLA Soldiers’ Over Forced Demolition – chinaSMACK

 

[Mike Manson]

Chinese government is scared of the people. The new president now cracks down hard on corrupt officials. If that is real, or just a show to calm the people, I'm not sure. But he won a lot of respect back.

 

[Totenkopf]

This is what happens when you have 2 billion population, life is not valuable. How many times do we see incidents happen in China where people just look on and don't help? That little girl that got run over, remember her?

 

[Mike Manson]

This is what happens when you have 2 billion population, life is not valuable. How many times do we see incidents happen in China where people just look on and don't help? That little girl that got run over, remember her?

Sorry, but that is different. People are helpful, but people are scared to get wrongly sued.

There have been many incidents, where people helped others who had accidents and then were accused and sued by the ones they helped. If there is word against word, the person suing will most likely win, if they can show damages and have "witnesses" that say they saw the accused with the victim.

It happened to me as well. I told the story on here before. Dude fell off his bike in heavy rain while holding an umbrella. He hit a hole in the street and fell on his face. I was in my car behind him. Got out to check on him, and then called an ambulance and left when I saw he was not that badly hurt. Some people saw my car next to the dude on the ground, called the Police and 10 minutes later, the Police asked me to go to the station because I hit the guy. Dude then got a smell of money and said I hit him...

All Chinese people that I told the story to told me I'm an idiot for stopping at all. But how can you live with yourself. You might be the reason somebody dies...but it also made me understand, why so many people are scared to help. They might loose everything...

 

[Mike Manson]

And it's mostly older people doing this. If you think about it, who survived the civil war and the cultural revolution?

 

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Chinese police 'beat and detain relatives of missing MH370 passengers'



Six months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing, relatives of those lost, desperate for any hint of what happened, say Chinese authorities have become openly hostile towards them.In interviews, several relatives described how they had been detained and physically abused by police - seemingly in retaliation for publicly pressing Chinese and Malaysia Airlines authorities for information about the hunt for the plane."In the beginning, Beijing police were protecting us, but their attitude has completely changed," said 38-year-old Cheng Liping, whose husband was on the flight."I can’t fathom why they’re doing this. I feel so incredibly disappointed."The Boeing 777 aircraft carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared on March 8 after taking off from Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing. About two thirds of those on board were from China.Investigators say what little evidence they have to work with suggests the plane was deliberately diverted thousands of kilometres from its scheduled route before eventually plunging into the Indian Ocean.But no one knows for sure, or why. A painstaking international search has failed to find any trace.For the relatives, neither their pain nor their single-minded quest for answers has eased, and that seems to have become an annoyance for China’s authorities.Police have beaten at least two people whose children were on the flight, several family members said. In one case, a woman in her fifties was hospitalised for three days."I went to see her in hospital, I could see the injuries on her head and body," said Zhang Yongli, 64, whose daughter was on the flight. "The way the police acted was very extreme, it’s wrong to treat us this way."Beijing police did not respond to requests for comment.China’s government has repeatedly said it would spare no effort in the search for the plane and leaders have expressed sympathy for the families.

Cheng Liping, whose husband Ju was onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, shows a picture of she and her husband together and an old card with a message given by her husband. Photo: ReutersPublic security authorities have not commented on the families but Malaysia Airlines representatives said distraught relatives have sometimes been aggressive.Some relatives said they believed their homes were being watched. Police have detained people several times at an office the government has set up in a nondescript Beijing suburb where families can go to seek information about the search from Malaysia Airlines and government representatives.Detentions usually last for about 24 hours, said the families and their lawyer. Police have cited various reasons for the detentions, family members said, including a rule against large gatherings. In a couple of cases, children were taken into custody with adult relatives.In at least two other cases, recounted to Reuters by relatives, Beijing police went to family members’ homes before dawn to detain them without a reason."On some level I can understand why the police are doing this - perhaps they’re used to only dealing with bad people," said Liu Wanyi, 26, a newlywed whose husband was on the plane."But we’re not seeking to antagonise the government in any way."In the weeks after the flight disappeared, when media attention was intense, police were a constant presence at the Lido Hotel in Beijing, where Malaysia Airlines put up the families and held daily meetings.At one demonstration in those early weeks, dozens of police escorted family members, many weeping and holding up signs, on a march to the Malaysian Embassy - an unusual show of support for a protest in China.But as the story faded from the news and the search dragged on, authorities became less supportive, the families say.Cheng, who has two young sons and who herself has been detained at the representative office, said she had no way to access her husband’s Malaysian bank account, and authorities in both countries had been indifferent to her requests for help."Honestly, I can’t endure this," she said. "My life has completely changed, I can’t manage to work any more."Most family members visit the representative office at least once a week, some travelling for hours, they said, in the hope of a shred of information.Like Cheng, many of them have quit their jobs.Police treatment of the families mirrors that meted out to so-called petitioners, who seek redress for a range of perceived injustices such as land grabs and medical malpractice, which are common complaints in China.Courts in China are controlled by the Communist Party and generally seen as beyond the reach of ordinary folk. With no other channels for pursuing complaints, people come to Beijing to make their cases but typically get short shrift.Many are detained by police or forced back to their hometowns with no progress on their grievances.As the flow of information from the search for MH370 dries up, relatives are haunted by their theories. Many said they believed the United States or other powers had withheld information or were even responsible."I have no doubt in my mind that Obama knows," Liu said of the U.S. president."No matter how much we ask, none of the responsible parties will provide any proof of what happened. Who knows what motive is behind it?"

http://m.scmp.com/article/1587124/chinese-police-beat-and-detain-relatives-missing-mh370-passengers

 

[Mars]

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