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AN official apologized yesterday for allowing a police officer to hold an umbrella for him while he spoke to protesters in the pouring rain last Thursday.
In a statement on the local government’s website, Wu Zhenfu, deputy chief of Huojia County in central China’s Henan Province, said: “There were many people at the scene. I had to focus on explaining to them and I failed to be aware that a police officer was holding an umbrella for me. I am wrong. It has posed negative social influences. I apologize to my people and netizens as well.”
A three-day street protest over a chemical plant had begun on September 9 with people gathering in front of the county government building in protest at the Zhongxin Chemical Industry Co Ltd, a methanol producer.
They were complaining about a rotten-egg odor in the air, suggesting highly toxic hydrogen sulfide.
The government had ordered the plant to rectify the problem but it was not until September 11 that it stopped production.
The umbrella incident caused anger among the public when photographs circulated online.
It recalled a similar row in the United States in May when President Barack Obama interrupted a press conference in the Rose Garden when rain began to fall to ask a couple of Marines to fetch umbrellas. But the incident angered opponents who said carrying umbrellas was a breach of Marine regulations.
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