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Police officers slow to act in fatal stabbing
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NETIZENS’ anger has targeted two police officers in Bengbu in eastern Anhui Province who did not immediately intervene as a man stabbed a 17-year-old girl to death, People’s Daily reported today.
The police chief in Yuhui District, Bao Jiachun, didn’t condemn his two subordinates over the Sunday afternoon incident, saying only that they were “slow on the draw,” the report said. They have not been punished.
The incident occurred at a local supermarket, where footage from surveillance cameras showed the suspect dragged aside a supermarket cashier surnamed Hu and repeatedly stabbed her with a knife. Police said he was a boyfriend Hu had met online.
Two officers, in uniform, didn’t act right away, even though they were just a few steps away, the video showed.
While the officers were equipped with batons and pepper spray, one of the officers began hitting the man in the head with a paper box. That had little effect and the man kept stabbing Hu, who fell motionless on the ground after 15 seconds, the video showed.
The suspect stabbed himself and fell to ground. The officers at that point sprayed him with pepper spray but the man stabbed Hu again, the report stated.
The suspect collapsed again and the officers finally grabbed him.
Hu, stabbed more than 10 times, was dead before she reached the hospital, the report said.
A supermarket worker said she had tried to persuade the police to intervene, but they didn’t step forward, the report said.
It was not known if the officers carried guns, but most uniformed patrol officers in China do not carry guns.
The suspect’s condition was not disclosed.
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