Shanghaiist: Student starts fight with six policemen in Harbin, gets beaten to death

Impv

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:35:58 +0800

Saw this exact same thing happen in Beijing in August..a drunk arrogant kid starts shit with a group of 8 guys. His mother and cousin jump in to "stop" him. The kid takes a few blows and the mother ends up in the hospital for a month. Couldn't believe 8 guys beating down the mother. Chinese gang mentality..run up punch in the head and retreat.. 8 guys kickin one person in the head when they are down. Makes Compton look like Disneyland.

tenforty

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:26:24 +0800

Umm, what's happened to China's best website ever - www.chinasmack.com ? Has it been taken down?

nanheyangrouchuan

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:32:21 +0800

Well, that kid should have been charged with six counts of assaulting an officer (would get him a couple of years behind bars) if he had lived.

larboard

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:01:11 +0800

The alleged cops (goons drinking on the job) should be trial for manslaughters.

Bumix

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:24:51 +0800

There are six cops, the guy on his own repeatedly tries to punch them in the face and they just push him away and then suddenly they beat him to death? Why don't they just after the first assault tackle, handcuff and take him away? Unbelievable..

nanheyangrouchuan

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:58:39 +0800

Street cops aren't allowed to carry guns. No telling what would have happened if they did. As to what US cops would have done, if they were LA or NYC, guns would have been out. But a while back in Philly a guy got pulled over after a chase and threw the first cop to approach him to the ground. After that a dozen cops lined up and beat the guy so bad he had brain damage and failed organs. A "police state" and getting an ass wooping after attacking cops aren't mutually inclusive. In either the Philly case or in Haerbin people shouldn't feel so bad for the "victim". Had the Haerbin cops been sober, the kid would still be severely injured. Those cops probably knew who he was and that is why they did nothing in the first place, but he kept pushing and pushing.

booggerg

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:01:34 +0800

If this had happened in the US. the police would have opened fired... The kid's got balls.. you have to give that to him.

nanheyangrouchuan

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:46:33 +0800

Well, picking a fight with a bunch of cops never ends well in any country. Beating someone to death is wrong but assaulting a police officer usually ends up badly for the assaulter. It will be interesting to see how the blue wall handles a princeling shit youth and if the higher levels of the PSB lean on the parents not to raise such a stink.