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发表于 2011-1-31 10:14 AM
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Hahaha, today's Toronto Star
‘My father is Li Gang!’ accused gets six years
BEIJING—The son of a police official who killed a 20-year-old female college student in a hit-and-run accident – then boasted that his father’s power would protect him – was sentenced to six years in jail Sunday.
The accident triggered national fury last fall after it was reported that 23-year-old Li Qiming alighted from his car after the accident and shouted to a crowd, “Go ahead and sue me! My father is Li Gang!
Li’s father was a local deputy police chief.
The phrase instantly went viral on the Chinese Internet and crystallized public anger at arrogant Chinese officials and their families who feel they are above the law.
Li Qiming was drunk at the wheel on Oct. 16 when he ran over Chen Xiaofeng and another female student on a college campus in the city of Baoding, 140 kilometres south of Beijing.
The father quickly tried to settle with the family out of court.
But the power of the Chinese Internet and the torrent of public outrage that it carried, ultimately forced the government to prosecute the younger Li.
He pled guilty to drunk driving and manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle. He was ordered to pay the Chen family $69,000 in compensation and $13,800 to the other student for her injuries.
While the sentence was a clear victory for the growing power of the Internet in China, the family’s original lawyer on the case said it wasn’t enough.
Lawyer Zhang Kai said in a telephone interview last night that the state effectively charged Li with a traffic-related offence, when it should have charged him with the more serious offence of endangering public safety.
That charge carries a sentence of up to 10 years and even death.
“He was driving 10 times over the speed limit on campus . . . He hit someone who actually fell across his car, smashing his windshield, and still he didn’t stop – he just kept on driving. He was totally negligent.”
Zhang also lamented that the trial had not been open to the media.
On Friday about 40 police officers and other officials held back a crowd of about 300 who had gathered in front of the courthouse awaiting the verdict, which was only handed down Sunday.
Last fall the deceased’s brother Chen Lin, told the Star that the incident had “lit a fuse” in China because it “underlines the tensions that exist between authorities and the common people.” |
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