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Fight Between Officers and Street Vendor Caught on Video: Bystanders Yell “Hit Them!”
A fight between local officers and a street vendor in Guiyang (Guizhou) was caught on video and shared on Sina Weibo on March 24. Bystanders don’t intervene in the situation, but instead cheer on the street vendor by yelling “hit them!”
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Diandian GUO
March 25, 2016 at 9:25 am
Lu Xun described in his novel Medicine (Yao) a scene where Shuan senior went to a early morning decapitation to get a blood bun to cure his son: he saw only many backs;all necks, like those of ducks seized by invisible hands, stretched upward.
Even if it is not a case of Chenguan, without their negative connotations in society, standbys are never rare when it comes to street conflict…sadly