{"id":47064,"date":"2015-05-12T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=47064 "},"modified":"2015-05-12T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T22:33:00","slug":"47064-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=47064","title":{"rendered":"Woman to Sue Over Police Killing of Her Son in China\\&#8217;s Heilongjiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>2015-05-12<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/19\/2015512image(41).jpg\" alt=\"2015512image(41).jpg (620&#215;465)\" \/><br \/><div><\/div><div>Lawyer visits mother of shooting victim Xu Chunhe in hospital, May 11, 2015.<\/div><div>Photo courtesy of lawyer Xie Yang<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>The mother of a man shot dead by police in China&#8217;s northeastern province of Heilongjiang has rejected a compensation offer from the government, saying she has hired lawyers to pursue the police officer responsible, media reports said on Tuesday.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Xu Chunhe was killed in a police shooting incident in front of his elderly mother and three young children at a railway station in Heilongjiang&#8217;s Suihua city earlier this month, and while a police investigation has claimed he was in the wrong, the authorities have offered the family 200,000 yuan (U.S.$32,198) in compensation.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>But Xu&#8217;s mother, Qian Yushun, who was placed in an elderly care facility by police following the incident, has hired lawyers to bring the officer who shot her son to justice, the Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>One of Qian&#8217;s lawyers, Xie Yanyi, said the internal police investigation into the shooting was an ambiguous affair.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t made clear whether this case was actually registered, or whether or not it was a criminal investigation,&#8221; Xie told RFA on Tuesday.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;There is also crucial information about the facts of the case which isn&#8217;t provided.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Xie said the shooting comes against the political background of a fraud investigation announced on Tuesday into Suihua municipal party secretary Dong Guosheng, which Xie said will have an impact on how Xu&#8217;s shooting is handled.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Threat to the public?<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Xu, 45, got into a confrontation with an officer in China&#8217;s railway police at Suihua&#8217;s Qing&#8217;an station on May 2.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Police later claimed he was assaulting police and posing obvious threat to public security, Xinhua news agency reported at the time.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;The middle-aged man &#8230; forcibly prevented passengers from going through the security inspection gate,&#8221; the agency quoted a railway police spokesman as saying.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;When a policeman on patrol tried to stop him, the man picked up a child and threw him at the police. In the chaos, he also tried to grab the policeman&#8217;s gun and club,&#8221; it said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Police officer Li Lebin opened fire to keep the passengers safe, but called for emergency medical assistance soon after, Xinhua said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Excessive force<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Rights activist Yu Xinshui said the shooting was an excessive use of force.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;There is nowhere for people to go to redress injustice; all the doors are closed to them,&#8221; Yu said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;They are even detained on the train, but even if they are detained, they shouldn&#8217;t be shooting people dead; they could have shot him non-lethally.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;There was no reason to kill this man outright,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/police-05122015143505.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;But Xu&#39;s mother, Qian Yushun, who was placed in an elderly care facility by police following the incident, has hired lawyers to bring the officer who shot her son to justice, the Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper said.&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&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-47064","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\/47064","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=47064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}