Chengguan Deliver Massive Parking Lot Beatdown, Seriously Injure Woman

The latest case of chengguan violence comes from Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, where officers reportedly beat up the boss of a restaurant and his family and acquaintances. On June 9, after a meal, chengguan went to the parking lot and found a car blocking its way. They demanded that the vehicle be moved "within three seconds." The restaurant's boss came out, but unable to move the car within three seconds, he ...

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Why Did Yan’an Chengguan Stomp On Bike Shop Owner’s Face? An In-Depth Look

Even while bashing the institution of urban management and enforcement -- so neatly summed up in one word, chengguan -- we acknowledge that the officers tasked with urban bureaucracy -- keeping street peddlers X meters away from the curb, making sure businesses have proper licenses, etc. -- do unenviable and difficult work. Keeping in mind that every time we see a video of chengguan beating the snot out of ...

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After His Buddies Complete The Beatdown, Chengguan Stomps On Fallen Merchant’s Head [UPDATE]

On the afternoon of May 31, chengguan in Yan'an, Shaanxi province reportedly got into a scuffle with merchants. The video that was posted to Youku shows the civilian eventually being surrounded by urban management officers, with one particular chengguan -- the fat one, natch -- delivering a terrifying two-footed stomp on his head. Witnesses say the chengguan smelled like he was drunk. ...

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Chengguan: “Even If They Have Real Documents, It Doesn’t Mean They Were Processed Legally”

Chengguan are not technically police officers, but out in the streets, their word is law. Today, we got a sobering reminder of that in Beijing. As reported by That's Beijing, "around 30 to 50 chengguan, along with 20 xieguan officers (‘associate management,’ a force subordinate to chengguan – essentially, hired muscle) blocked off Xuezuo Hutong behind Zhangzizhonglu subway station, allowing the crews to dis ...

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Chengguan Brawl With Townsfolk In Broad Daylight

On Friday, street enforcement officers of Huangshi, Hubei province entered a convenience store and began confiscating goods -- it's what chengguan do -- but before they could finish, local townsfolk decided they'd seen enough. In the ensuing scuffle, chengguan were subject to verbal abuse, followed by phsyical contact. It wasn't pretty for anyone, as you can see. ...

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Chengguan Creates Mawkish Video To Elicit Public Sympathy

Chengguan, those salt of the earth, are pushing back against negative public perceptions of their profession. One particular urban law enforcement officer in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, Jiang Yifan, created the above video recently to "clear up some misunderstandings," as Danwei's Barry van Wyk writes. A couple of things though: ...

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Chengguan Killed In Line Of Duty After Being Struck By Hoe [Graphic Video]

A chengguan in Yingshan, Hubei province was killed in the line of duty last Saturday after he was struck in the head by a hoe. On March 16, squad leader Duan Jinyin, 34, was reportedly leading a team in stopping an illegal construction when he was attacked. It happens at the start of the above video (discretion is advised). All it took was a single blow to knock him unconscious. He spent four days in the ho ...

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Chengguan Stabbed 7 Times: “The Most Painful Part Is That Society Doesn’t Understand”

"The most painful part isn't the stabbing, but that society doesn't understand." That's a quote from Guangzhou chengguan bureau chief Wei Weihan, who recently saw one of his own stabbed seven times, including five times in the head. On Sunday, Su Jiaquan, 26, was doing his job when a pineapple peddler attacked him with a knife. According to eyewitness Zhong Yongde, absolutely no one came to Su's aid. "At th ...

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Here’s The Moment A Hired Thug Slugged An Already Bloody Petitioner

Found on Sina Weibo, the above picture supposedly depicts a thug beating a petitioner in broad daylight on the streets of Xi'an in Shaanxi province. The man on the left is a goon allegedly hired by a demolish-and-relocate (chai-qian) gang, perhaps a real estate company or a local official. (Think the government wouldn't get involved? A group of officials was recently arrested for doing just such a thing.) T ...

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Chengguan Bully And Cuff Street Vendor In Front Of Her 2-Year-Old Daughter

Netizens are outraged by a recent incident in Guangzhou involving urban street management enforcers, i.e. chengguan, whose reputation continues its uninterrupted plummet in this country. A young mother was physically harassed by officers in front of her two-year-old daughter, leading commentators to urge representatives at the Two Sessions in Beijing to pay attention to this flagrant violation of dignity. ...

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Our question has been answered: Yes, chengguan are stealing from the homeless

"Are Beijing's chengguan stealing from the homeless?" we asked in the headline of a Tuesday post. Yeah, they are. Confirmation via Xinhua: The theft of vagrants' belongings in downtown Beijing has prompted an outcry for the protection of homeless people's rights. A group of more than 50 uniformed, but unidentified, individuals took the possessions of homeless people who were staying on a street near the Yon ...

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Chengguan Chase Down Farmer Before Beating Him

You know, it's not that we don't sympathize with chengguan, China's street-level urban management officers. We get that they have a tough job, and encounter scoundrels and freeloaders on a weekly, if not daily, basis. But every single week, we see a video of chengguan somewhere behaving as poorly as the people they're supposed to police. And what are supposed to do about that? ...

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Chengguan In Wuhan Try A Slightly Different Enforcement Tactic, Still Mocked

When beating, bullying, and plundering doesn't work, resort to mass intimidation. Urban enforcement officers in Wuhan, Hubei province are turning to the group silent treatment to smoke out "illegal" street vendors. As Caijing reports, "A new policing method is to appear in a straight line and approach illegal business operators wordlessly for maximum intimidation." How well is this policy working? "The appl ...

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If You’re A Chengguan, It’s Probably Best Not To Fight An Old Man Surrounded By Townsfolk

The buildup is long and strange, but it's full of wonder and intrigue. Why is the old man's pants unbuckled? Why is he surrounded by three much younger urban enforcement officers, i.e. chengguan? Why does one of the officers appear to have a ripped shirt? Why does the old man taunt them, saying, "Come on, hit me?" We only know what the video title and description tell us, that this happened in Donggang, Lia ...

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