Friday, October 29, 2010 | BAODING, CHINA —It might have been a fatal traffic accident like so many others that occur in China every day.
But when 20-year-old student Chen Xiaofeng was run down and killed on her college campus this month, it was different — and triggered a firestorm.
Chen was roller-blading with a friend at the University of Hebei, when a car collided with them and pitched them both sprawling and bleeding on to the pavement. But the driver did not stop. Instead, he sped on — corralled minutes later by campus security guards and angry students.
Chen Xiaofeng, 20 and (foreground) her mother Zhang Fang, 48.
Undaunted, the driver drunkenly climbed out of his car, and confronted the crowd shouting, “Go ahead and sue me! My father is Li Gang!”
It was Oct 16 — and those words have reverberated around China ever since. Li Gang is a senior police official here in Baoding, about 140 kilometres south of Beijing.
His son’s loud, arrogant and public profession that his father’s power would trump any law enraged students here and, eventually, much of the country.
China’s Internet, home to some 400 million users, lit up with fury. And many claimed the case is by no means ....
The Party knows it – and knows it has to deal with it.
Read more @:[http://thestar.com/death-china-triggers-disgust-derision]