This photo is one of a series posted today on SonicBBS.com’s bulletin board showing police in riot gear running down a Guangzhou street. The photos are accompanied by the following text, in Chinese:
Tianhe Beilinhe Donglu, photographed from my balcony
Apparently the Xinjiang guy who opened a restaurant on this street got into an argument with a city official.
Afterwards, I don’t know what happened but a cop got taken hostage. The hostage must be a chief ha ha.
UPDATE: ESWN has followed up on this story and translated an article from the Daily Express (also posted on QQ.com: Civilian reporting in Guangzhou
The incident arose when municipal administration workers got into conflict with people from a restaurant during the course of law enforcement. After a person from the restaurant was injured by the law enforcers, more than 30 people from the restaurant gathered together and used axes and poles to face off against the municipal administration workers and police officers. Some of those people were even upset enough to bring out at least five gas canisters and placed them in front of the municipal administration and police vehicles. During that time, the gas canisters were turned on and off several times. After two hours of negotiations, the matter was finally resolved.