Probe into why police slow to tackle knifeman
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POLICE officers are being investigated over claims they were reluctant to come to the aid of a 17-year-old supermarket cashier fatally stabbed in a frenzied attack.
And when they did intervene in the store in Bengbu City, in eastern Anhui Province, one officer — despite having pepper spray and a baton — tried to stop the attack by hitting the knifeman with a cardboard box, footage showed.
But Bao Jiachun, police chief in Yuhui District, where the attack took place on Sunday, refused to condemn his men.
Bao had said they were guilty of being “slow on the draw” rather than cowardice.
The officers, one said to be in his 20s and the other in his 40s, have not been punished.
Surveillance footage showed a man drag the supermarket worker, surnamed Hu, and repeatedly stab her.
The two uniformed officers didn’t intervene immediately, despite being close by.
When they did step in, one officer hit the attacker over the head with a cardboard box.
But the man continued stabbing Hu, who fell to the ground. The attacker then stabbed himself and collapsed.
One officer sprayed him with pepper spray, but he still managed to stab Hu once more.
He collapsed again and the officers finally subdued him.
Hu was stabbed more than 10 times and died before reaching hospital.
Police said the suspect, from Shangqiu in central Henan Province, was Hu’s boyfriend.
He is under police guard.
Web users criticized the officers. “They were definitely scared!” one netizen said.
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