Uniformed officers in China bash man on the street for failing to produce his ID
Victim suffers seven broken ribs and a bleeding lung, and is told he will have permanent complications from his injuries
A man in southern China was cuffed, trampled and beaten in broad daylight by half a dozen uniformed men who broke seven of his ribs and caused internal bleeding in his right lung after he failed to produce his ID on request, mainland media report.
It was unclear whether the uniformed men who beat up Li Gang, the victim, were regular or part time police, or notorious “urban management officers” hired by city governments to patrol streets and markets to remove beggars and illegal hawkers, often by brutal means, the Information Times reported.
Li had apparently answered back to an officer who yelled at him for driving his electric bike through a crowd on the streets of Dongguan in late May.
When Li was asked for his ID and couldn’t produce it, the officer knocked Li off his bike and started to punch him and twist his arms.
While onlookers pleaded with the officer to stop, four or five more uniformed men arrived at the scene and tied Li’s hands, wrestled him to the ground and began kicking him on the street.
