Girl Stabbed to Death While Chinese Police Officers Stood By
by Peter Barefoot on Friday, August 23, 2013
by Peter Barefoot on Friday, August 23, 2013
From NetEase:
2 Police Officers in Anhui Witness Girl Being Killed Without Stopping It, the Police: It Wasn’t Because They Were Afraid of Dying
People’s Daily Online Bengbu, August 22 news — On the afternoon of August 18, a murder happened in Anhui Province Bengbu City Yuhui District Macheng Town: A 17-year-old female supermarket cashier was murdered after being stabbed over 10 times by the killer.
Surveillance footage during the crime showed: While the girl was being choked by the killer and stabbed to death, two police officers stood right in front of them, yet dared not to go forward to stop it. Not until the perpetrator stabbed himself and fell to the ground did the two policemen go forward to subdue him. The two policemen’s behavior was strongly and angrily condemned by the family members of the deceased.
August 21, Director Bao of Bengbu City Public Security Bureau Yuhui District Subbureau responded that the two police officers’ reactions were somewhat slow in their handling of the incident, but there was no cowardice and fear of death.
Surveillance footage: As killer attacked, police officers stood to the side and watched
On the afternoon of August 18, 17-year-old Bengbu girl Xiao Hu left this world. According to the police bulletin after the incident, the man who killed Xiao Hu was her boyfriend Shen X whom she met through the internet. The place where Xiao Hu was killed is a supermarket in Bengbu Macheng Town. where she worked, just a little more than 200 meters away from her home.
August 20, reporters of People’s Daily Online Anhui Channel exclusively obtained the supermarket surveillance footage of Xiao Hu being murdered. This over one minute long video clearly recorded how Xiao Hu was killed.
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Eyewitness: Pushed the policemen to go save her, but they didn’t
August 21, reporters of this article arrived at the scene of the murder–Macheng Town Weihai Shopping Plaza. The supermarket was already closed. Nearby residents say the supermarket closed down after the murder happened.
After going through a lot of trouble, reporters of this article found supermarket employee Ms. Hu. On the afternoon of August 18, Ms. Hu witnessed the whole incident resulting in the murder of Xiao Hu.
According to Ms. Hu’s recollection, on that afternoon, an employee reported to her that a suspicious man had been hanging about the supermarket for a long time, and had even purchased a kitchen knife and a fruit knife from the supermarket. “I thought at the time that this man was going to rob the store, so I asked cashier Xiao Hu to put away all the cash,” said Ms. Hu. She also called the Macheng Town Police Station, asking the police to come as soon as possible and investigate.
Very quickly, two policemen arrived at the supermarket, but the suspicious man had already left the supermarket. “So the policemen went out to look for him, but with no luck,” said Ms. Hu. Half an hour later, the man turned up again, and she again called the police. As soon as the two policemen walked into the supermarket, the perpetrator grabbed Xiao Hu by her neck, and began attacking her.
“Seeing him stab Xiao Hu with a knife, I was scared to death,” said Ms. Hu. Frightened, she grabbed the policeman next to her by his clothes, screaming repeatedly: ”Go save her! Go save her!” But the policemen didn’t, only shouting at the killer. Reporters of this article saw in the surveillance footage that Ms. Hu was indeed pushing one of the policemen forward to stop the killer, but neither of the police officers went forward.
Ms. Hu then wanted to grab the police officer’s baton, but she was so scared her limbs went numb and failed to grab it. “The police officers were holding their batons and were very close [to the killer]. If they had went forward to intervene, they might’ve been able to stop the killer from killing her.” Ms. Hu felt very sorry and sad for Xiao Hu’s death.
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