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True story of police brutality

All the students were from a sports college, meaning they were all physically strong. Lin himself stood 1.92m and majored in basketball.

In light of this, the tide of public reaction flowed very much toward policemen.

This incident is a reminder that one should have a sense of justice but should not be carried away by it before the whole truth emerges.

The case made headlines mainly because people first perceived it as a struggle between the strong and weak.

When you mention a college kid beaten to death by cops, it conjures up the ghost of Sun Zhigang and the 2003 Guangzhou incident that set a benchmark for tackling the police brutality problem. While police brutality is indeed a vicious virus existing in our society, one should not jump to the conclusion that a policeman in a brawl is always at fault.

What if there had been no video recording of the clash? To appease public anger, the court probably needs to dole out a harsher penalty than warranted.

If you dig deeper, the video does not provide sufficient evidence that can exonerate the cops.

The crucial "blows" that caused Lin's death occurred out of sight of the camera. And if there were no third-party witnesses around, it would be party A said, party B said.

When I travel around the country, I encounter stories of corruption, ineptitude and various forms of social ills, yet many cases are not as black-and-white as they would have appeared had I stayed in my office and commented on them. To apply a framework of class struggle on every conflict would achieve nothing except giving oneself a false sense of moral superiority.