{"id":16671,"date":"2015-03-24T23:25:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T06:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=16671"},"modified":"2015-03-24T23:26:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T06:26:46","slug":"china-thousands-revolt-against-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/china-thousands-revolt-against-police-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Thousands Revolt Against Police Brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thousands REVOLT In China Against Police Brutality. Cops Beat Woman In Street, Four Officers KILLED By Crowd<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16672\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16672\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16672\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinamob.jpg\" alt=\"chinamob\" width=\"643\" height=\"856\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinamob.jpg 512w, http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinamob-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With all of the police brutality throughout the United States \u2013 especially in the past year \u2013 many have wondered if (or when) there might be a breaking point. <a href=\"http:\/\/countercurrentnews.com\/2015\/03\/all-out-war-in-ferguson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police officers in Ferguson, Missouri were shot by a sniper on a hilltop near the Ferguson Police Department<\/a>. While denounced by nearly everyone, some \u2013 like <a href=\"http:\/\/countercurrentnews.com\/2015\/03\/wu-tang-clans-method-ferguson\/\" target=\"_blank\">hip hop musician Method Man of the Wu Tang Clan<\/a>, described this as a sort of \u201cchickens coming home to roost\u201d situation. However, he said the police had \u201creaped what they sowed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16673\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16673\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16673\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinariot.jpg\" alt=\"chinariot\" width=\"645\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinariot.jpg 512w, http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinariot-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While he was certainly not condoning violence against the police, he was saying that when you plant or \u201csow\u201d violence, you generally harvest or \u201creap\u201d the same sort of violence that you planted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in China, this sort of reaction is far more widespread and normal when the masses witness police killings of innocent people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16674\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16674\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16674\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating.jpg\" alt=\"chinabeating\" width=\"644\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating.jpg 620w, http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16675\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16675\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16675\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating2.jpg\" alt=\"chinabeating2\" width=\"645\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating2.jpg 620w, http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating2-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Chengguan officers beat a woman in the streets, literally thousands of angry protesters took to the streets to fight back. The crowd swarmed the officers\u00a0in the Cangnan County of Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it wasn\u2019t just the beating of the woman that sparked this outrage\u2026<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16676\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16676\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16676\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating3.jpg\" alt=\"chinabeating3\" width=\"651\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating3.jpg 620w, http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When people filmed the beating, officers targeted those recording their abuses, beating a man with a hammer for filming them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Located in the industrial southeast, Chengguan is a region in China that is notorious for it\u2019s police brutality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this case, the cops who attacked the man filming their abuses, beat him until he was literally vomiting blood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16677\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16677\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating4.png\" alt=\"chinabeating4\" width=\"660\" height=\"835\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating4.png 620w, http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating4-237x300.png 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was only seconds before\u00a0housands swarmed the cops\u00a0in their van, throwing stones, and beating them with bats. Eventually, the crowd beat four of officers\u00a0to death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16678\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16678\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating5.jpg\" alt=\"chinabeating5\" width=\"661\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating5.jpg 620w, http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating5-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People in the crowd were shouting: \u201cKill them! Kill them!\u201d Eventually SWAT officers were called out, but they were quickly overwhelmed too, Counter Current News reported shortly after the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In\u00a0Chengguan the police\u00a0are a combination of regular officers\u00a0and state inspectors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back in July of last year, they were witnessed beating a man to death and almost killing his wife. All of this was over selling watermelons without a permit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16679\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating6.jpg\" alt=\"chinabeating6\" width=\"666\" height=\"891\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating6.jpg 620w, http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chinabeating6-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before this most recent attack, there were similar responses to police brutality after street vendors were attacked by police back in 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Strangely enough, neither Chinese, nor Western media was very\u00a0interested in reporting on this major revolt against police brutality. 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