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Written by: Lin Leer
2020-08-12 13:33
Last update date: 2020-08-12 13:33North Point City Garden District Councillor Qiu Xuxin and his male assistant were accused of pushing the hearts of riot police officers during a live broadcast of street conditions in North Point on August 11 last year, and were also charged with assaulting a police officer. The two denied charges and were tried. Magistrate He Junyao said today (12th) that the confession of the two police officers did not match the video of the case, as if they were in a "parallel time and space." When they gave testimony, they often answered unreasonable questions, "using boastful talk", which was illogical and sophistry. The court refused to accept their confession and reprimanded them for being "very frivolous" when stopping the two defendants. They stopped the defendants only to prevent the filming and did not perform their duties properly. The two defendants were convicted of not guilty and both received legal costs.
The defendant Qiu Xuxin (23 years old) was the community director of City Garden at the time of the case. She and the male defendant Lao Zegan (23 years old) each faced a crime of assaulting a police officer. The charge alleges that they assaulted Police Constable Xu Jingyao outside the Kwun Crown Building on King’s Road in North Point on August 11 last year.
Qiu Xuxin was found not guilty of assaulting the police and could obtain legal costs. (Photo by Lin Leer)
No foul language in the video, the atmosphere is calm
Police Constable Hui Jingyao and Senior Inspector Lin Jingnian confessed to the court that someone at the scene verbally abused the defendant and stopped them for fear of the defendant's safety, so they told them not to take the film and leave. When the magistrate ruled, he pointed out that the written record of the victim never mentioned foul language. In addition, there was no verbal abuse in the video, and the atmosphere at the scene was generally calm. The police officers gave evidence as if they were in parallel time and space.
Police officers wait for reporters to keep their distance outside court
When the case was interrogated for two consecutive days, the police sent officers to wait outside the court. When reporters were waiting outside the courthouse for interviews after the reporter left the court today, more than a dozen police officers repeatedly asked reporters to keep their distance and asked to show their press cards on the grounds of a gathering restriction order.
Case Number: ESCC103/2020
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