Police
August 7, 2012One Comment
![Shenyang’s law enforcement units gang up on small businesses for hefty fines? All stores close in panic Shenyang’s law enforcement units gang up on small businesses for hefty fines? All stores close in panic](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2012/08/shenyang05_thumb.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
Multiple Chinese discussion forums and social media report that almost all small businesses in Shenyang, particularly those run by owners with no connection with the government, have put up the shutters to avoid sudden raids, detention and hefty fines. The police blitz on such a large scale is believed to be an effort to collect [...]
Continue readingFebruary 16, 20122 Comments
![Vice squad breaks into hotel room on Valentine’s night, busts ‘threesome’ and air it on TV Vice squad breaks into hotel room on Valentine’s night, busts ‘threesome’ and air it on TV](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2012/02/threesome02_thumb.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
From Sina Weibo In the United States, it is invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress; in China, it is law enforcement and a moral lesson for the public. Local police of Huai’an, Jiangsu province raided upon a hotel on the night of Valentine’s day with a camera team, and found two women and [...]
Continue readingJuly 26, 20119 Comments
![Chinese parapolice kill handicapped street vendor in daylight, use brutal violence against spectators Chinese parapolice kill handicapped street vendor in daylight, use brutal violence against spectators](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/07/chengguan01.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
The violent enforcement took place at 1:43 p.m. on July 26 in Anshui, southwestern Guizhou province. The street vendor who sold fruit was a disabled man hobbling along on a crutch while pulling a cart. Information from MOP and Sina Microblog provided by netizens said the murderers were two men and one woman from a [...]
Continue readingJuly 13, 20115 Comments
![Female teacher raped by local official. Police: Not if wearing condom. Female teacher raped by local official. Police: Not if wearing condom.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/07/rape01.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
From Qianzhong Morning Post Update: On July 13, owing to media coverage and public pressure, Wang Zhonggui was arrested on rape charges. An English teacher at a junior high school in the town of Ashi, Bijie Region, southwestern Guizhou province, was made by the school principal to drink liquor with eight local officials. After she [...]
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![A Cuckoo’s Nest that no one can fly over – Chinese petitioner locked up again 8 days after escape A Cuckoo’s Nest that no one can fly over – Chinese petitioner locked up again 8 days after escape](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/05/xu-wu02.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
From Southern Metropolis Daily and Tianya Xu Wu, once an employee of a steel company in Wuhan, capital city of central Hubei province, had been petitioning in Beijing trying and failing to get justice on a financial dispute between himself and his company was forcibly admitted to a mental hospital and mistreated for four years. [...]
Continue readingApril 19, 20113 Comments
![Picture of the day: Plainclothes policeman FAIL Picture of the day: Plainclothes policeman FAIL](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/04/police1.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, as a “hotbed” for protests and demonstrations, has the tightest security in the nation. A large number policemen, including plainclothes, are posted in the square and nearby to keep every person under scrutiny. A microblog user uploaded a picture of a man in the square who looks so obscure and ordinary but [...]
Continue readingApril 12, 2011One Comment
![Picture of the day: Standoff between traffic police and an ambulance Picture of the day: Standoff between traffic police and an ambulance](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/04/police.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
On the morning of April 9, traffic on a thoroughfare of Changchun, capital city of northeastern Jilin province, came to a halt. Some big shot had came to make an inspection of the city, and the traffic police ordered vehicles to make way for the powerful official. An ambulance transporting a patient stopped at the [...]
Continue readingFebruary 27, 20117 Comments
![World’s lousiest bank robbery took place in China World’s lousiest bank robbery took place in China](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/02/bank-rob.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
At 9:03 a.m. on February 7, a man walked into a branch of Postal Savings Bank of China in Baodi, Tianjin, and put on a black mask before he commenced his bank heist with the help of a …gun? No, a hatchet! Some Chinese netizens who watched the entire video footage recorded by the bank’s [...]
Continue readingFebruary 18, 2011One Comment
![Chinese police mimic Michael Jackson’s and Korean Wonder Girls’ dance moves Chinese police mimic Michael Jackson’s and Korean Wonder Girls’ dance moves](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/02/police021.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
The official Beijing police embedded this video in their microblog message via their Sina account ‘Peaceful Beijing’ (平安北京) as greetings for Chinese Lantern Festival, or the last day of Chinese New Year. Most of the 300 plus commenters applauded their moves, saying the dance is happy and cute, whereas a fraction said it is amateurish.
Continue readingFebruary 14, 20112 Comments
![Police car passes by hit-and-run scene, ignores injured victim Police car passes by hit-and-run scene, ignores injured victim](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/02/police01.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
From Mop On the morning of February 10, 2011, a motorcycle collided with a bicycle, knocked the bike rider down to the ground and unconscious, and then fled the accident scene. Someone who witnessed the accident jotted down the license number of the motorcycle on a scrap of paper and slipped it into the hand [...]
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![Chinese public servant beats janitor brutally for not giving gate pass right away Chinese public servant beats janitor brutally for not giving gate pass right away](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/02/0012.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
From Mop At 10:00 p.m. on January 30, 2011, a car with the license plate “桂BBZ3××” stopped at the gate of a neighborhood in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province. The janitor recognized one passenger on the car as a resident of the neighborhood, took it for granted that they don’t need a gate pass, and didn’t bother [...]
Continue readingJanuary 18, 20116 Comments
![Official micro-blog of China’s local police department follows Japanese porn star only Official micro-blog of China’s local police department follows Japanese porn star only](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/01/0114.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
Many regional police departments have launched their micro-blogs, a similar service to that of Twitter, at Sina, for promoting their image and public relations. Most netizens are not in the least surprised by the growing trend. However, Xigang Branch Office of Dalian Police Department in China’s northeast was a jaw-dropping one. It’s micro-blog, only half-a-month-old, [...]
Continue readingJanuary 14, 2011No Comments
![2-year-old Chinese boy killed by a police car 2-year-old Chinese boy killed by a police car](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/01/police.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
A Chinese policeman on patrol ran over a 2-year-old boy with his vehicle and killed him yesterday in Shenzhen, a city in southern China. It’s the third death from a police car in the city since 2010. When the reporter with Guangzhou Daily hurried to the scene, a patrol car with the license plate “粤B0782警” [...]
Continue readingDecember 31, 20102 Comments
![*Graphic Warning* Chinese bristle with indignation at horrific death of a village petitioner *Graphic Warning* Chinese bristle with indignation at horrific death of a village petitioner](http://web.archive.org./web/20170403125044im_/http://www.ministryoftofu.com/wp-content/themes/polarmedia/lib_frame/scripts/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2010/12/qian08.jpg&w=150&h=150&a=c&zc=1&q=90)
Qian Yunhui, chief of Zhaiqiao Village, Yueqing City of Zhejiang Province in East China, was a prominent petitioner who had been jailed three times for speaking on behalf of the villagers, whose farmland was seized by local officials without any compensation. On the morning of December 25, upon receiving a mysterious phone call, Qian went [...]
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