On the afternoon of December 10, 2012, a man knelt down on the street of the noisy Jingu Market in Loudi City.
In his hand was a piece of paper that read:
"It's not a hero who is a beggar, just to get justice."
His name is Hu Kefeng, and he is a villager in Jianglong Village, Loudi City, Hunan Province.
A few months ago, in the process of arresting a thief, he accidentally caused serious injuries to the other party, but he was sued by the thief's family.
Hu Kefeng originally did not think so, he felt that he was acting bravely, at best, he was over-defending, and there was no need to lose money at all.
Figure 1 Hu Kefeng
Until the court ordered him to compensate the thief's family for 1.3 million, which made Hu Kefeng completely dumbfounded.
That's why on this day, he will kneel in the street and beg everyone to give him justice.
So, what exactly is the truth of the matter?
See the thunderbolts of a sunny day for the brave
In the early morning of March 7, 2012, before dawn, the villagers of Jianglong Village were still sleeping.
The noise of "jingle bells" made Hu Kefeng wake up from his dream.
Hu Kefeng is a villager in Jianglong Village, Loudi City, Hunan Province.
He runs a commissary with his wife and is not wealthy.
But the two were very frugal and had a good time.
There are not many people in the village, and The Hu Kefeng family lives on the side of the road, and there are relatively many pedestrians and vehicles coming and going.
Although the business of the small shop is not difficult to do, it is also very noisy.
Fig. 2 Idle steel pipe
Especially in time for the construction sites around the area to start construction, workers from all over the world arrive, and the composition of the personnel here will become a lot of complexity.
At this time, thieves and robbers often take advantage of loopholes to engage in criminal activities in the village.
The instability of the environment does not affect the tight bondage of the villagers here.
When they hear about the theft, every family will always run out to maintain the law and order of the village.
Hu Kefeng is an active member of the maintenance of law and order.
Every time he heard a movement, he was always the first to stand up and fight the robbers, helping the local police catch local thieves and robbers many times.
So this time, Hu Kefeng also followed the direction of the noise.
He noticed that the sound was coming from a nearby construction site, interspersed with sparse chasing sounds.
Figure 3
Originally, Hu Kefeng thought that the construction site was planning to work in the middle of the night, and he just planned to yell two voices to make the other party stop.
But he was suddenly stunned.
The construction site has never been built in the middle of the night, and there is no one to guard it at night, and there are many steel and iron pipes stored inside, which are all construction materials, and can be sold for a lot of money.
Hu Kefeng immediately reacted:
This is a construction site into the thief!
So he immediately grabbed the kitchen knife to defend himself, woke up the surrounding villagers, and asked everyone to catch the thief together.
It turned out that Hu Kefeng was not wrong in calling the villagers to go to the construction site together.
Everyone took the guys and flashlights to the construction site, and when they took a picture, they found that the theft gang stole the steel pipes of the construction site.
The thieves found that their criminal acts had been exposed, and they quickly clutched the steel pipes in their hands and fled.
Figure 4 Surveillance screen
The villagers also quickly dispersed, hunting down the thieves who had fled separately. The steel pipe fell to the ground and jingled, and the construction site was full of people, and the scene was a mess.
Hooker chased after him. With a quick eye, he caught one of the thieves in an instant and pushed the man to the ground.
Only then did he realize that he had caught a female thief.
Hu Kefeng was very surprised, but immediately returned to calm:
What is to be done now is to control the prisoner first, and in terms of physical strength, men often have an innate advantage over women.
This "battle" is nine out of ten.
But Hu Kefeng thought that this female thief's resistance had been extremely fierce, and he had been using a steel pipe to violently hit Hu Kefeng's head.
Hu Kefeng could only keep waving his hands to block.
Figure 5
In the course of the fight, Hu Kefeng's knife fell on the female thief's head.
The female thief was bleeding profusely.
Hu Kefeng and the surrounding villagers were very nervous, and they quickly dialed the police and emergency telephones, sent the female thief to the hospital for treatment in time, and rushed to the hospital with the police car.
Good samaritan? Or is it overly defensive?
Sitting at the door of the operating room, Hu Kefeng waited anxiously, deeply understanding that although he was kind enough to catch thieves, the fact of hurting others was difficult to change.
The person who was hurt by himself was still lying in the operating room, not knowing whether he could carry through this ghost door.
The police learned about the incident and were very sympathetic to Hu Kefeng's situation.
The local police are also well aware of Mr. Hooker's personality.
Figure 6 Local police
In the past few years, Hu Kefeng has assisted the police in catching 8 thieves, and has made a lot of efforts to maintain local law and order.
Faced with the current situation, Hu Kefeng felt guilty in his heart and used his 50,000 yuan savings to advance the medical expenses of the female thief.
The case has already occurred, and the police can only first detain Hu Kefeng for 6 days in accordance with the regulations.
After the detention, Hu Kefeng thought that the matter was over.
However, the day after he returned, Hu Kefeng was taken back to the police station by the police again.
The reason was that the relatives of the female thief appealed for intentional injury, demanding that Hu Kefeng compensate Zeng Hong for more than 100,000 yuan in medical expenses.
Hu Kefeng was stunned at that time, he did not expect that his righteous act of arresting the thief had brought him so much trouble.
Figure 7 Zeng Hong's brother-in-law
The pathetic side of the case
The female thief who was caught by Hu Kefeng, Zeng Hong, took her two children to the home of her sister and brother-in-law in Loudi City after her husband died of cancer in 2005.
Zeng Hong's two children, the eldest daughter has intellectual problems, was placed in the old home to live with the elderly;
The younger son attends primary school in Loudi City, so he always lives with Zeng Hong.
Although there is a sister and brother-in-law to rely on, there are still two children to raise.
Zeng Hong, who did not have a skill, started a stall business selling dried tofu.
However, due to the politics of the city's appearance and appearance, Zeng Hong's stall business was often controlled by the urban management and expelled, which made the family that was not rich even worse.
The number of times he was driven away was more, and Zeng Hong was physically and mentally exhausted.
But for the sake of the child, she gritted her teeth and persevered.
Gradually, she came up with the idea of doing a fixed stall business.
At least the stalls are fixed, so there is no need to be too afraid of the city management to drive people away.
Figure 8 Fixed booths
However, to get a fixed stall, you also need all kinds of documents and equipment, and a set of how to get down how to need fast ten thousand yuan.
The poor Zeng Hong originally wanted to ask her sister and brother-in-law for this money.
But the thought of sending people under the fence to let them take care of their own lives really can't open this mouth.
Therefore, Zeng Hong could only get up early and greedy, pick up scraps while setting up stalls, and work hard to make up for the stall fee.
But this is only a drop in the bucket after all.
And just when Zeng Hong was about to despair, she noticed the steel pipes in the construction site.
In the eyes of others, the steel pipes piled up like mountains are just inconspicuous materials, but in Zeng Hong's eyes, they have indeed become the entrance to a new life.
At this moment, Zeng Hong developed greed.
Figure 9 Zeng Hong's brother-in-law
In the early morning of March 7, 2012, Zeng Hong came to the construction site to "pick up" steel pipes...
When Hu Kefeng was indicted by Zeng Hong's brother-in-law, Zeng Hong was still lying unconscious in the hospital.
The total cost of treatment and medical expenses is more than 100,000 yuan, and the 50,000 yuan left by Hu Kefeng before is simply not enough.
Hu Kefeng believes that Sun Hong is a criminal, and he is a person who sees righteousness and courage.
The reason why Zeng Hong was injured was due to the fierce resistance of the other party, everything was an accident, and the 50,000 yuan he had advanced was already the end of benevolence.
However, Zeng Hong's family believed that even if Zeng Hong had committed theft, he would not be cut into serious injuries and lose his life.
They believe that Hu Kefeng is a murderer and deserves compensation.
50,000 medical expenses, in the face of hundreds of thousands of medical expenses are not worth mentioning.
Figure 10 Judgment
The Zeng Hong family also believes that Zeng Hong, who suffered a knife wound to the head, even if he recovers, it is difficult to live and work normally.
So it is reasonable for them to demand compensation from Hu Kefeng.
Later, Zeng Hong woke up, but because her brainstem had been damaged, she could only be paralyzed in bed for the rest of her life.
Zeng Hong, who was lying on the bed, also became silent, unwilling to communicate with everyone around her, even her closest son, who was unwilling to say a word.
After Zeng Hong's case was exposed by the news, Zeng Hong's son was bullied to varying degrees at school.
Classmates ridiculed him as "the son of a thief."
Young children also have a lot of psychological shadows, and they cry at home all day. But he did not accuse his mother of her actions.
Because he knew that everything his mother did was for herself.
Figure 11
After seeing the living conditions of Zeng Hong's mother and son, Zeng Hong's sister and brother-in-law were more determined and must make Hu Kefeng pay the price and get justice for Zeng Hong.
Although Hu Kefeng sympathized with the Zeng Hong family, he felt that the other party was making trouble without reason.
They clearly regard zeng hong's accident as capital for making money.
So Hu Kefeng very strongly refused to compensate.
But Zeng Hong's brother-in-law did not give up his demands because of this.
They went to Hooke Feng's commissary every three or five minutes to make trouble.
The angry Hu Kefeng really couldn't stand the unreasonable trouble of the Zeng Hong family, so he also filed a complaint to sue the Zeng Hong family in court.
The two sides clashed in July 2012 against Bo Gongtang.
However, the court finally sentenced Hu Kefeng to 1.3 million yuan in compensation for Zeng Hong's family.
Hu Kefeng was stupid.
Figure 12 Zeng Hong's injuries
Their commissary can only make a total of tens of thousands of yuan a year.
Hu Kefeng really couldn't figure out why he had to compensate the thief for 1.3 million yuan if he didn't get the praise even if he didn't get the reward.
It was also from this verdict that rumors about "Hu Kefeng is a murderer" have arisen.
Many people who do not understand the facts do not dare to go to the door to shop, and even some good people will come to the store to make trouble.
Hu Kefeng's children were also criticized at school.
And he can only explain it over and over again:
"My dad was a hero, he was a hero, he wasn't a murderer."
Although he insisted on explaining outside, the child returned home and slowly alienated Hu Kefeng.
Hu Kefeng listened to the child ask the mother:
"It was better not to see the righteous courage in the first place, why was the thief still regarded as a target of protection?"
Figure 13 Hu Kefeng's wife
Axioms are in the hearts of the people
After hearing the conversation between the child and his wife, Hu Kefeng was completely overwhelmed.
Yes, why did the righteous brave himself fall ill, but the thief became the object of protection?
"Has the world changed? Is what you are doing wrong..."
Hu Kefeng was in pain.
Then he thought of the villagers who had met with him and bravely, and thought of the police who had been working hard to maintain local law and order.
He always firmly believed that axiom must exist in the hearts of most people, and the masses just did not have the opportunity to understand the facts of the case.
Hu Kefeng felt that as long as everyone understood the truth of the incident, then they would definitely be on their side.
In order to test his ideas, on the afternoon of December 10, 2012, Hu Kefeng knelt down in the streets of Jingu Market in Loudi City holding a blank piece of paper printed with the words "Not a hero is a beggar, just to seek justice".
Figure 14 Hu Kefeng
Next to him were two boxes, one with the words "See righteous and courageous" and the other with "Intentional injury."
Hu Kefeng prepared 500 ballots, intending to let passing citizens vote spontaneously to see what the masses thought about the matter.
Hu Kefeng knelt for a full two hours.
500 ballot papers were continuously taken away by passing people, and one by one they were thrown into the box of "seeing righteousness and courage".
The "intentional injury" box went unnoticed.
Looking at the voters' approval of themselves, Hooke Feng, who was kneeling on the ground, shed tears...
Back at home, after counting the votes, Hu Kefeng smiled:
The people believe that I have done a brave deed, and now I have no complaints or regrets when I go to jail.
The video of Hu Kefeng kneeling on the street begging for public opinion was uploaded to the Internet by the onlookers and instantly received widespread attention.
Through the tracking reports of various media, netizens also learned the story of what happened to Hu Kefeng.
Figure 15
But as the topic heated up, some controversy followed.
Some netizens believe that seeing righteous courage should be encouraged rather than punished, and Hu Kefeng should not bear any responsibility;
Another part of the netizens believes that although it is worth advocating to see righteous courage, Hu Kefeng's behavior has constituted excessive defense, and should bear the responsibility for the maintenance of the poor Zeng Hong's family.
The two sides have been arguing endlessly.
I saw the intervention of public opinion forces and gradually fell towards Hu Kefeng.
On November 29, 2013, Zeng Hong's family also published an article on a Hunan legal website in the tone of Zeng Hong's children in an attempt to regain momentum and charge Hu Kefeng.
In the face of the unchanged verdict, Hu Kefeng can only constantly beg.
Begging for a fair and reasonable verdict one day.
Figure 16
Although the results of this case have been announced, because of insufficient evidence and many doubts, the legal community has been arguing endlessly about whether Hu Kefeng has over-defended himself.
However, it is certain that Hu Kefeng was originally motivated by good intentions, which was the only way to see righteousness and courage.
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