Image of Police Abusing Woman Sparks Outrage
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Chinese, Woman, Prostitute, Image, Outrage | Themes: The Internet, Business
An alleged prostitute was pictured naked while under arrest and grabbed by her hair by police, sparking an excessive force outcry.
Apparently, the Internet is in an uproar, although honestly, we didn't know anything about it until we came across this AP report. It seems that an image has surfaced online depicting a plainclothes policeman pulling a naked woman by her hair during a prostitution bust in central China. The problem here, obviously, is an excessive use of force, justifying the outrage.
According to China Daily, the image is one of many taken by local media covering the prostitution bust. The story originally ran last Thursday night on a news website run by the China New Service, however the report didn't receive web-wide exposure until mid-day Monday. By Wednesday afternoon EST, the story had reached a worldwide platform, almost taking a "viral" route.
Is it any surprise? News travels extremely fast on the Internet, especially when it involves illegal activity concerning law enforcement. The whole "don't tase me bro" situation is a great example, showing how the mistreatment of one student--one trying to debate with Senator Kerry in a public, open forum--led to a taser shocking his body. There's also the story about an officer using a police department computer to harass a woman for sex.
But what is necessary and what is excessive in regards to reporting and the Internet? As for the recently circulated photo of the officer and the alleged prostitute, the fight could lean either way: how can the police treat a "suspected prostitute" in such a harsh manner? Then again, how can an image containing the naked prostitute be taken and transferred to the Internet?
Ultimately, the Internet is like the old, wild west: untamed with lots of frontier to explore.
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i think the fact that it circulated so fast has a lot more to do with the prostitute being naked than it has to do with excessive force by law enforcement.
"...during a prostitution bust in central CHINA." So this outcry will be promptly ignored, like someone in CHINA actually gives a rats ass. People in the west are silly.
and the sad thing is crap like this happens everyday in America... watch some submedia or something...
no link?
and the sad thing is crap like this happens everyday in America... watch some submedia or something...
Yeah. Nothing's more fun than falling through the cracks.
"Face the camera!"
"No!"
*Grabs hair and pulls head back*
I see no problem with what was done.
I don't believe the term "excessive force" has an accurate translation in the Chinese language(s).
Well, not since 1949 anyhow.
now, what does this have to do with hardware or software aside from i am seeing it on the internet?
Exactly, so when is TH going to start doing articles about, "Picture of dogging licking own testicles leaks onto the internet"?
As soon as the "Oprah turns on her computer" story hits Tom's, I'm outta here. Not every single "story" involving electricity/internet belongs on here. If someone has sex in a car, it's not reported on Car and Driver.
Tom's, if I want National Enquirer bullshit stories, I know there website, got it?
First of all- PRO TIP: if the police are trying to detain you: COOPERATE. If you don't and they use excessive force, you wrote your own destiny so shut your mouth.
secondly - pulling hair is an outrage? firstly, I was expecting it to be shoving the nightstick up her **** if it caused outrage. Also, who would want to touch a naked, likely HIV-infected ho on any other part of her body? These police certainly don't get paid enough to put themselves in harms way of contracting the AIDS virus. Pulling her hair was probably the safest manner to go about detaining an uncooperative, naked prostitute.
... Oh, it was in China.
I was shocked until I found out that. Then it's just SSDD.
That's all he did? I think that's nothing, and media is trying to put bad name on China again, just like many other times.
American cops has done much worse and daily, and it's capture on Video too. I am sure China policemen has done pretty much the same things the Cops did too. So, what's the big deal?
Back to this picture, I think he wasn't nice to lady, and we don't really know the story behind it. This should be ignored by the internet. Except the fact that it's from China, and there is a naked Chinese girl in the picture, then everybody got so excited.
I bet she deserved it. How else do you apprehend a naked woman? She would've cried sexual harassment if you grabbed her body. Then again, this is China.
What has happened to Tom's? This place used to be a decent place to read some good tech articles and now it is about prostitution in China. I am sorry, what site is this again? Maybe this should be posted in Tom's China or something.
If the commie chinks can massacre and make hundreds of Uighurs disappear overnight, than bashing prostitutes is nothing. The West really needs to press hard on Beijing regarding its human rights violation records than pick on a story like this!
Why is this even on here? This is under the subsection "Influence of Technology on Society." Technology isn't influencing society in this article. Technology is being utilized as a medium of distribution but is in no way actually affecting society.
I come to TH so I can read about things not found on Yahoo!'s front page.
I don't believe the term "excessive force" has an accurate translation in the Chinese language(s). Well, not since 1949 anyhow.
过度使用武力
How about 'Excessive use of force'?
I love Canada... prostitution is actually legal here, however... communication the sale of sex (asking how much she charges), running a bawdy house (hooking from a building instead of the street) are illegal...
is that the photo of the policeman in the news? doesn't look Chinese at all. wrong picture or wrong news.
"Face the camera!""No!"*Grabs hair and pulls head back*I see no problem with what was done.
/agree
This article is really stretching the definition of Tech news. If someone uploaded a picture of me taking a piss on my old Asus AM2 motherboard, would you write an article about it? Actually the real question would be if the article focuses on the motherboard or on the fact that someone uploaded a picture, because that is the only connection to technology in this article.
Maybe she gave all his friends Ghonnaherpasiphilaids and he's fucking pissed. I'd yank that bitch around too! ~just kiddin
Why is there a picture of Ear on top.. .....
Here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prost [...] c_of_China - This is obviously the only reason people are pissed. People are pissed because it is almost SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE to be a prostitute in China. Ugggh.
This treatment happens to lots in china, not just prostitutes, i once saw a man being dragged down a street by policemen in china in broad daylight and no one batted an eyelid
They arrest them but they love them really.
So, IMO, the "Don't tase me bro" guy had every volt coming to him. The sex solicitation and now this, however, are very very different cases. There was no provocation from the offender in these cases, the tase me bro guy was all about it, struggling even as he yelled to not be tased, more or less asking for it, ironically. This woman, however, got abused to the 3rd degree because the cop is a rage-a-holic a-hole.
... Oh, it was in China. I was shocked until I found out that. Then it's just SSDD.
Yeah, I had the exact same reaction. Not that I don't feel sorry for the people, but that is what we've come to expect from a government that dealt with protestors in Tienanmen Square by rolling out tanks and killing almost 1,000 of their own people.
That's hot
Seeing how this happened in China she should be lucky that she is still alive to get pulled around by her hair while she is naked.
I am certain that China's police have to right to walk up to her and put a bullet in her head then walk away.
Well I am glad it's not just America that loves to hate cops. Now I can't say there aren't some police men and women out there that do their job and do it well by keeping a level head and not over reacting to everything, but often times the people that do this sort of shit are draw to police work for the power they get over others and that's why this stuff spreads because people love to hate corrupted power on any level.