Chinese law enforcement takes down hostage taker-NSFW

[deathbydanish]

Chinese law enforcement takes down hostage taker

This is obviously one of those videos that will lead to polarized reactions. I'm sure some of you will say, it was a good, clean take down and others will question whether or not the police respected the criminal's rights.

AFAIK criminals in China have very little rights, and its obvious their law enforcement operates under different operational doctrines than do ours.

All I have to say is this, its obvious that the police negotiators were there for hours trying to get him to surrender. But since he wasn't going to see the light of reason, something had to be done to take him down.

[thatoneguy92088]

Chinese law enforcement takes down hostage taker

This is obviously one of those videos that will lead to polarized reactions. I'm sure some of you will say, it was a good, clean take down and others will question whether or not the police respected the criminal's rights.

AFAIK criminals in China have very little rights, and its obvious their law enforcement operates under different operational doctrines than do ours.

All I have to say is this, its obvious that the police negotiators were there for hours trying to get him to surrender. But since he wasn't going to see the light of reason, something had to be done to take him down.

Did anyone else think that girl he was holding the knife too seem very calm throughout the whole thing?

[deathbydanish]

Maybe she knew what would happen, maybe the guy knew what would happen and was using this chance to perform a suicide by cop.

I'm not sure of the details since I can't read kanji or whatever the text is.

[I Slap Fat Kids]

Well, thats one cost-effective way to resolve a hostage crisis.

Edit:
I translated this with babel fish.

"The Guiyang special police officers handle the highway robber on June 18, 2008 about 8:00 pm, on Guiyang around the city north road 20 group public transportations, a man is kidnapping forces a female passenger to take the hostage. The suspect proposed that demands two pistols, 500 round of bullets, 1,000,000 Renminbi. About 20:00 pm, suspect mood suddenly out of control, appears lathers, and the wound and the hostage pate, the situation is very critical. Guiyang Police station several assistant commissioner on the scene after the research, decided that sends out special police officer crew " Forest leopard commando unit " The member seeks for the opportunity to rescue the hostage. about 20:42, are invalid in the persuasion, the hostage life is threaten in the situation, the special police officer opens fire decisively, wounds the suspect, will be kidnapped the hostage to rescue safely. 　　At present, the suspect after delivers the hospital rescue invalid death, the case is further investigating. This video frequency provides by the scene eyewitness."

[PeyotZET]

Did anyone else think that girl he was holding the knife too seem very calm throughout the whole thing?

It takes too much energy to be freaked out for so long.

[jones4ms]

at the end it looked like the girl lying there too

[azmjs]

If there is one thing I've learned after living ten months here in the People's Republic, it is that if you insist upon taking hostages, you should surrender quickly, before one of the highly trained black-shirt black-pants People's Armed Police crack troopers sneaks up and shoots you in the head with a pistol at extremely close range.




I saw a squad of these guys once, and they were trying to get taxis at the same corner I was trying to get a taxi, so I moved on and ended up getting rained on a bit more than I had planned.

While drunk one night, my buddy and I speculated on how they train. We thought perhaps they set a target up a foot or two away, and have to become proficient hitting it every time, one-handed.

We speculated as well that somewhere in China, gentlemen like these train by shooting targets off of telephone poles or watch-towers.

[Vince]

Hi Matt!

[Altered_Soul]

Awesome.

[Seedy]

I've been to China myself several times and I can tell you that is one fucked up country.
human rights are a joke there.

[Panzer]

As Seedy commented the authorities and how they deal with criminals are no joke. China is now starting to experience issues domestically with Muslim extremist. In march a chick tried to ignite bomb on a China Eastern Flight to Beijing. A couple of weeks back while I was there they caught 36-43(numbers varied depending on which news agency) that had plotted to bomb the transit system, key tourist locations and select events at the olympics. Needless to say when asked about the status of "those involved in the incident" a local official commented, "once the information as to their plans has been obtained the problems will be removed."

[azmjs]

Hi Matt!

Hey hey hey, how's it going?

I should be back in the states in about 3 weeks. Unless I get disgruntled and take hostages.

Heller was announced at 10 PM China time, just in time for fun.


ETA

I was in Hong Kong when I read about the guy on the bus being shot, and the article in the South China Morning Post said that he was taken out by a "sharpshooter."