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The owner of a West Oak Lane convenience store where a raid by a police drug squad was captured on the video-surveillance camera until police cut the wires has sued police and the City of Philadelphia in federal court.
The video of the Sept. 11, 2007, raid and search of Jose Duran's Super One Market at 7301 N. 20th St. was heavily publicized after it was posted earlier this year on the Philadelphia Daily News Web site.
The video shows members of the police Narcotics Field Unit entering the store about 7 p.m., questioning Duran about the locations of store cameras, and then beginni... Read more
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Police arrests highlight anger
Long identified with corruption, abuse and political repression, China's police are facing an increased outpouring of public anger that has led to mob attacks, caustic Internet postings and displays of sympathy for a convicted cop-killer.
While outbreaks of unrest are not uncommon in the vast country, recent weeks have seen a spike in riots and attacks on police and offices of the ruling Communist Party. The sparks run from alleged assaults on citizens to factory closures and more general complaints over corruption and opaque decision-making.
Without thorough political reforms, such incidents will likely rise in number as China's slowing economy fuels new desperation and rage, many analysts say.
"Given that the regime has staked its legitimacy on economic development, it's hard to imagine that they won't increase," said Michael C. Davis, a law professor and China expert at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The bubbling outrage apparently prompted the arrest this week of two officers over the Oct. 11 beating death of a college student outside a nightclub in the northeastern city of Harbin. Hoping to soothe the anger, top officers released security camera footage showing officers being attacked and addressed Internet rumors to justify their handling of the case - extraordinary moves for a force long used to dismissing complaints.
At a news conference Tuesday, Harbin police spokesman Lu Hongxi announced the arrests of officers Liu Linan and Qi Xin and said four other officers were also investigated for their part in the fight that resulted in 22-year-old Lin Songling's death.
Despite the arrests, however, Lin's family on Wednesday continued to accuse police of a cover-up, demanding that all six officers be arrested.
"We've lost all confidence in the police. If we can't get justice for our child, we'll appeal to a higher authority," Lu Chuanzhi, Lin's uncle, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
The posting online of the security camera footage that showed the drunken brawl between the students and off-duty officers sparked an outpouring of commentary on the Internet, an increasingly lively forum for venting public anger at authorities. While some blamed Lin and his friends for starting the fight, many others accused the officers of brutality and unprofessional conduct.
The Harbin incident follows an extraordinary outpouring of sympathy for a 28-year-old unemployed man who was sentenced to death in August for killing six Shanghai policemen in a stabbing spree. Some hailed the man as a hero, while others decried state media's one-sided coverage of the case.
Alarmed by such sentiments, national police chief Meng Jianzhu has called on officers to show restraint and professionalism. At a national teleconference for top police officials on Tuesday, Meng warned of further trouble ahead, ordering officers to "fully recognize the impact of the current economic circumstances on social stability."
Wang Qinghuai, a professor at the ministry's People's Public Security University, cited a litany of reasons for such problems, including a growing defiance of authority and a lack of funding that has sometimes led to corruption.
Sensationalistic media reports also fuel anti-police sentiments, he wrote in a recent paper published in an internal ministry journal.
"Media demonization and public anger combine to drag the image of the police further and further down," Wang wrote.
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