{"id":30258,"date":"2012-10-17T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=30258 "},"modified":"2012-10-17T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:46:00","slug":"30258-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=30258","title":{"rendered":"Chinese residents take to streets after man reported killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>(Reuters) &#8211; Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the city of Luzhou in southwestern China on Wednesday, after reports a truck driver was beaten to death by policemen, residents said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Pictures and video on China&#8217;s popular microblogging site Sina Weibo showed an apparently dead man sprawled out on the ground next to a truck as police held back onlookers.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Reuters was unable to independently verify the photos and calls seeking comment from the Luzhou government in Sichuan province went unanswered.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>China&#8217;s Communist Party has been trying to keep a lid on protests ahead of a meeting in Beijing next month which will usher in a new generation of leaders.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Residents contacted by telephone said they had heard reports that traffic policemen had beaten a truck driver to death after an unspecified dispute.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;People are very angry about this and are out on the streets to show their anger,&#8221; said one resident of the Hongxingcun neighborhood where the unrest was focused. He did not witness the incident and declined to give his name.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>A manager at a local restaurant who gave her family name as Wang added that several thousand people had taken to the streets.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Images posted later in the evening showed overturned police cars, some of which had been set alight.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Some Weibo posts said the police had used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; \">Continue reading the<\/span><strong style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; \"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/10\/17\/us-china-unrest-idUSBRE89G1AC20121017\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: none; \">&nbsp;original article.&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the city of Luzhou in southwestern China on Wednesday, after reports a truck driver was beaten to death by policemen, residents said.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}