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...district attorney's office said that the defendant was visiting friends on campus. It is alleged that, along with others, Copney then confronted Cosby in a common space in Kirkland House. Shots were fired, and one of those shots struck Cosby, resulting in his death, according...
...recent weeks, chengguan officers have been accused of many violations. In southeastern Jiangxi province, local residents say bureau officers beat to death a farmer who was trying to stop a land-reclamation project. His killing sparked a riot, with angry residents overturning chengguan cars on a local highway. In the southern city of Changsha, city-management officers allegedly beat a Chinese reporter who was visiting from Beijing to cover a demolition-and-relocation project. And in the central city of Xi'an, chengguan who were shutting down a breakfast stall kicked a wok and burned a vendor with scalding...
...ranks of laid-off workers from state-owned enterprises and given little training in law enforcement, Zhou says. While Chinese police have also been accused of abusing suspects - the government recently ordered police to undergo a five-month retraining program because of an alarming number of high-profile deaths of prisoners in the nation's jails - the violence attributed to the chengguan is seen as more galling because of the pedestrian nature of their responsibilities. Yet they themselves face threats too. "Street vendors are also using violence to fight against chengguan," He says. "Some have even formed mafia-like societies...
...Hubei came upon a group of bureau officers. They were shutting down a small protest against a garbage dump planned for the area. When the construction boss, Wei Wenhua, began filming the clash between the chengguan and protestors, the city-management officers turned on Wei and beat him to death. On the Chinese Internet there were widespread calls for the officers to be harshly punished and the system reformed. For a while, it seemed like there was hope. A group of more than 100 chengguan leaders called for "deep concern and reflection...
...killers were handed sentences ranging from three to six years in prison. Wei's widow, Zeng Jingfang, calls the verdicts an injustice. And she notes that even after her husband's death, little has changed. "Similar cases of chengguan violence continue to happen," she says. The "deep concern and reflection" only led back to the sanguinary status quo. But as the economic slowdown puts further pressure on the chengguan, China's city-management officers may finally be forced to manage themselves...