On December 24, 2014, netizens posted a video on the public platform, which attracted widespread attention. In the video, a woman is lying on the ground, and a middle-aged man in a police uniform is stepping on his hair with his feet, and the movement is very rude.
It was confirmed that the middle-aged man in the video was a police officer from the Longcheng police station in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, while the woman lying on the ground was a native of Handan County, Henan Province, who worked in Longcheng Street, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, in 2014 to make a living.
Wang Wenjun stepped on Zhou Xiuyun's hair
The physical violence and personal insults inflicted by the police on the female migrant worker in the video caused discomfort among the vast number of netizens and aroused the indignation of the crowd. To make matters worse, the woman in the video lost her life as early as December 13, the day the video was filmed.
The original living person lay on the ground like a withered flower and passed away, what happened in the middle? Why is the woman in the video treated like this by the police?
All this has to start with a dispute between migrant workers and construction site security.
The son, who wants to get a salary, clashes with the security guards
In 2014, Zhou Xiuyun's family, including her husband Wang Youzhi and son Wang Kuilin, were working in Taiyuan, Shanxi. By December 13, a month or two before the New Year, Zhou Xiuyun took advantage of the time to think about returning to her hometown for the New Year, but a phone call disrupted her rhythm.
Her husband, Wang Youzhi, picked up the phone, and Zhou Xiuyun learned from her husband's retelling that Wang Kuilin had clashed with someone. Loving her son, she immediately rushed to the conflict site with Wang Youzhi. When they hurried to the north gate of the "Shanxi Sijian Group Economic and Trade Longruiyuan Project" construction site, they learned that Wang Kuilin had fought with the security guards stationed at the north gate.
In October, Wang Kuilin and more than a dozen fellow villagers took over the carpentry work of the "Long Ruiyuan" project. After a long period of hard work, more than a dozen people finally completed the carpentry task according to the agreement, but the contractor did not fulfill the obligation to pay the remuneration, and kept arrears of wages, resulting in the remuneration agreed in advance was never fully transferred to the accounts of Wang Kuilin and others.
So on December 13, Wang Kuilin and several fellow villagers planned to go to the construction site to ask for a salary from the project department. At about 16:00 p.m., Wang Kuilin and his party of four had just arrived at the north gate of the construction site, and before they could see the staff of the project department, they were stopped by the security guards stationed at the door.
When the security guards saw that Wang Kuilin and others wanted to enter the construction site but did not wear a work permit or the hard hat necessary to enter and exit the construction site, they stopped them at the door and were forbidden to enter. Wang Kuilin felt that the construction site had long been stopped, there was no need to wear a hard hat, and the security guards were really fine.
The two sides then quarreled over whether they could enter the construction site, which became more and more intense, and eventually turned into a fight. According to Wang Kuilin's recollection, when he wanted to go inside the construction site, he was pulled back by the security guard, and he turned around sharply and then pushed the security guard back. This shoving increased the smell of gunpowder, and the two soon got into a fight.
After the fight, the two sides began to call people, Wang Kuilin called Wang Youzhi and other co-workers by a phone, but he did not expect that Zhou Xiuyun, who was worried about him, also followed. The security guard called the captain of the security team and a group of security guards.
After Wang Youzhi arrived at the scene, he tried to negotiate with the security guards again, but the two sides never reached an agreement on the matter of entering the construction site, and the scene was very tense.
Not long after the stalemate, physical clashes between migrant workers and security guards resumed. Due to the large number of people caught in the melee this time, the security captain was worried that the scene would be out of control, so he called the police.
The police clashed, and Zhou Xiuyun fell to the ground
After waiting for dozens of minutes, the police of Longcheng Police Station arrived at the scene of the dispute. Four policemen get out of the police car, and Wang Wenjun, who steps on Zhou Xiuyun's hair in the video, is one of them.
When Wang Wenjun arrived at the scene, he first communicated briefly with the security captain in dialect, then looked at Wang Youzhi and asked one of the workers named Li Kang to show his ID card. Li Kang felt that Wang Wenjun's tone was full of disdain, and his attitude toward them was too rude, so he did not cooperate immediately, so there was a verbal conflict between the police and the people.
Wang Wenjun saw that Li Kang did not cooperate and wanted to subdue him with handcuffs. Wang Youzhi stopped in front of Li Kang and asked Wang Wenjun to handcuff himself. Wang Wenjun did not hesitate after listening, and went forward to press Wang Youzhi to the ground, suppressed him to get up, and freed a hand to handcuff him.
After that, several other policemen also quickly grabbed Li Kang, Wang Kuilin and others, planning to take them to the police car and take them back to the police station for treatment.
Zhou Xiuyun was deeply angry when she saw the police violently treating her husband and son, and she stopped Wang Wenjun and did not want Wang Youzhi to be taken away.
Wang Wenjun pushed Zhou Xiuyun away, ignoring her obstruction. After Zhou Xiuyun got up, she continued to pestering Wang Wenjun, hugging his thighs, and scratching and pulling at him again, trying to use her weak strength to restrain the people who were about to take away her husband and son.
However, how can the strength of an ordinary woman rival the strength of male policemen who have been practicing for more than ten years, and her series of actions is undoubtedly a mantis arm as a car.
Zhou Xiuyun and Wang Wenjun
Wang Wenjun angrily asked Zhou Xiuyun, "Do you let go?" ”
Zhou Xiuyun replied emphatically, "It is not loose." ”
Soon Wang Wenjun lost patience, and he quickly got rid of Zhou Xiuyun's hands and feet, forcefully pushed her to the ground, and hit her chest with his knee.
When Wang Kuilin saw his mother being beaten, he was very nervous and took out his mobile phone to call the police. He wanted to ask if a policeman had beaten someone, and the other policemen didn't care.
But Wang Kuilin was robbed of his mobile phone by the police who detained them halfway through the call, and in desperation, he could only watch Zhou Xiuyun and Wang Wenjun fight.
After Zhou Xiuyun was pressed to the ground, there was no way to break free, and he could only desperately pull on Wang Wenjun's pants pocket and struggle, so that the pockets were about to be torn apart. Wang Wenjun became more and more angry, constantly pulling Zhou Xiuyun's hair.
After Wang Kuilin got into the police car, he saw From the window of the car, Zhou Xiuyun was pressed on the head by Wang Wenjun with great force. Zhou Xiuyun was pressed so hard that his head was pressed against his stomach, and he looked uncomfortable.
Wang Wenjun
Not long after, in this confrontation between Zhou Xiuyun and Wang Wenjun, Zhou Xiuyun lost the ability to resist. She no longer struggled as much as she had at first, she lost her strength, and gradually lay on the ground without moving.
At this time, Wang Wenjun did not realize the seriousness of the matter, saw Zhou Xiuyun lying quietly on her back on the cold ground in December, and thought that she was pretending to scare people, so she did not pay attention to it, and even badly stepped on Zhou Xiuyun's hair with her feet, waiting for police support.
Zhou Xiuyun lay unattended on the cold ground of the cold winter moon for nearly an hour, during which Wang Wenjun, as a policeman, was not responsible for the result of Zhou Xiuyun's coma caused by himself, he just replaced the left foot with the right foot that stepped on the hair.
Zhou Xiuyun
After the police reinforcements arrived, several police officers joined forces to carry Zhou Xiuyun to the police car, Wang Youzhi's hands were handcuffed and could not check Zhou Xiuyun's situation, he could only arch her legs, but did not get any response, he was very worried but there was nothing he could do.
Private violence was used in the police station, and Zhou Xiuyun's first aid was ineffective
When they arrived at the Longcheng police station, Wang Youzhi was not investigated and questioned by the formal procedures, but instead suffered illegal beatings at the beginning.
At first, the police who beat Wang Youzhi secretly took Wang Youzhi to the toilet to avoid surveillance. In the toilet, Wang Youzhi was grabbed by the police and kicked in the hair for a long time. Later, when he came to the office to deal with related problems, Wang Youzhi was violently hit on the head with his shoes by other policemen, causing him to bleed continuously on the head.
After the incident, wang Youzhi was beaten and fractured 4 ribs.
Wang Kuilin and several other co-workers were also subjected to varying degrees of violence at the police station, with bruises on their lower backs.
As a policeman, it is really chilling to illegally beat one of the parties.
After being treated inhumanely, Wang Youzhi still had no time to take care of himself, and he kept an eye on Zhou Xiuyun's situation. In the inmate room, he saw Zhou Xiuyun not far away, his eyes closed and paralyzed, and the whole person was lifeless and could not even rely on the wall.
Wang Youzhi, who was impatient, could only ask the police to help look at Zhou Xiuyun's specific situation, but no one paid attention to him. Some police even kicked Zhou Xiuyun and told her not to pretend to be dead in a sarcastic tone.
After arriving at the police station for more than an hour, Wang Wenjun and other talents paid attention to Zhou Xiuyun's abnormality and dialed the telephone number of the Taiyuan Emergency Center. The doctors of the emergency center quickly arrived at the police station to rescue Zhou Xiuyun, who was unconscious.
During the treatment, the doctor issued a critical illness notice that needed to be signed by the family. Obviously, Zhou Xiuyun's husband and son were detained in the police station, but the police lied that Zhou Xiuyun had no family, so that Zhou Xiuyun, who was dying, did not even have a family to guard when he gave first aid.
More than half an hour later, the results of the treatment showed that Zhou Xiuyun's respiratory and cardiac arrest, the person had died, and he was unable to return to heaven. The police at the Longcheng police station were a little flustered when they saw the dead people, and suspected that the doctor who came to the police station for emergency treatment had made a mistake, so they asked the emergency center to send Zhou Xiuyun to the Shanxi Rongjun Hospital by ambulance for rescue.
But the doctor in charge of the treatment at the Invalides Hospital said that Zhou Xiuyun was already a corpse before he was sent to the hospital, and if it were not for the police to send for treatment, they would not have pushed people into the operating room in vain for emergency treatment.
Another first aid is also the result of Zhou Xiuyun's death, and her life of toiling around for her livelihood but still full of hope for the future has come to an abrupt end, which is regrettable.
Wang Youzhi and Wang Kuilin were not informed of Zhou Xiuyun's death until more than 3 a.m., and the two suddenly felt a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
The bad news came so suddenly, from the beginning of the alarm to Zhou Xiuyun's death was only a few hours, the living person was so gone, Wang Youzhi and Wang Kuilin father and son could not accept it at all, they wanted to find out the cause of Zhou Xiuyun's death, could not let her die so inexplicably.
So the long road of appeal began, Zhou Xiuyun's relatives repeatedly went to the Shanxi provincial government to complain about their grievances, but the responses they received were not satisfactory, and they did not know whether Wang Wenjun and other violent law enforcement policemen had been punished.
Moreover, in the process of filing their grievances, suspected police officers repeatedly obstructed them from taking taxis to the seat of government. Therefore, Wang Youzhi's appeal was not very smooth.
Fortunately, this is an internet age, and online public opinion supervision has become the fastest way to achieve results.
The clash between Wang Youzhi and others and the police on the construction site was recorded by a co-worker, and Zhou Xiuyun's nephew uploaded the recorded video to the Internet, restoring the real situation at that time to a group of netizens.
The spread of the video caused outrage, and the image of the unconscious Zhou Xiuyun being stepped on by Wang Wenjun's hair was the most unsatisfactory, and such an insulting and violent picture subverted people's perception of the image of the police.
In the face of the exposure of the video, some people at the Longcheng police station even said that the video was not trustworthy after malicious editing, Wang Wenjun did not step on Zhou Xiuyun's hair, and the angle of the shooting was tricky, resulting in the illusion that the police stepped on the hair of the peasant woman.
Can ask such an urgent situation, who would think of creating visual errors through the shooting angle, and some reporters have found someone to study the video specifically, and the reply is that the video has no traces of operation and tampering.
The Zhou Xiuyun incident continued to ferment on the Internet, and many netizens expressed solidarity with Wang Youzhi's family. Gradually, in real life, the matter also received great attention, and the Taiyuan Municipal Procuratorate and the Public Security Bureau both issued notices in response to the case, and Wang Wenjun was arrested on December 30. After half a month, I finally had an explanation for Wang Youzhi's family.
The court sentenced Wang Wenjun after he was released from prison and cried out for injustice
Later, after a series of preparations such as evidence collection and investigation, the death of Zhou Xiuyun was finally tried at the Taiyuan Intermediate People's Court.
According to the report presented by the appraisal center selected by Zhou Xiuyun's family, Zhou Xiuyun died of acute respiratory and circulatory failure due to closed neck injury caused by blunt sexual violence. It can be seen that Zhou Xiuyun's death was obviously caused by Wang Wenjun's improper pressing of his head for a long time.
The court held that Wang Wenjun's official conduct at that time had exceeded the reasonable limit. Wang Wenjun's unsure actions were the reason for his conviction, and his failure to fulfill his timely rescue obligation afterwards was also a reason why he could not be easily forgiven.
In the end, Wang Wenjun was found by the court to have committed the crime of causing death by negligence and the crime of abuse of power, and according to the circumstances of Wang Wenjun's crime and his attitude of repentance, he was sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment within the sentencing range of the crime of causing death by negligence and the crime of abuse of power.
As soon as the verdict came out, the public was in an uproar. Many people who pay attention to this incident feel that Wang Wenjun's sentence of only 5 years is too light, and one life is taken in public, is this the punishment that the executioner should have?
There is public interaction on whether to impose a light sentence in some news, and from the data collected by a popular news headline, the number of people who approve of the light sentence has reached tens of thousands.
However, there are also well-known legal experts who analyze the correctness of the judgment, and Wang Wenjun, in order to eliminate the excessive exercise of power by law enforcement, inadvertently caused the death of Zhou Xiuyun, he did not have the psychology of intentionality, nor did he foresee in advance that his behavior would lead to Zhou Xiuyun's death.
Therefore, it is legal for the court to convict him of the crime of causing death by negligence, and the sentence of 5 years is just by combining the seriousness of the circumstances and the sentencing range of less than 7 years for the crime of causing death by negligence itself.
Regardless of public opinion, the verdict has been decided, the authority of the court is not infringed, and the punishment Wang Wenjun accepts is the 5-year sentence specified in the document.
Time passes quickly, and the Zhou Xiuyun incident has long been lost in the vast and complicated network world, and netizens have long since lost the poor woman. But as a witness, Wang Youzhi's family is doomed to be unable to forget the pain of losing a loved one, and the sense of incompleteness of the family is always with them.
However, Wang Wenjun, who has been sentenced in prison for several years, began to appeal after he was released from prison, and the incident that had disappeared from the public eye once again returned to the public eye.
Wang Wenjun insisted that the procuratorate's procedures for investigating and collecting evidence were not proper enough, and questioned whether Zhou Xiuyun's relatives had published false statements online and deliberately created false public opinion to guide the public's emotions.
He said that Wang Kuilin and others did not go to the construction site to ask for wages on the day of the conflict between Wang Kuilin and others with the security guards, and that Wang Kuilin and others had already negotiated with the pay payers to settle the salary time before that day, and there was no situation where one party did not pay wages without a sound, and Wang Kuilin and others needed to come to the door to ask for it.
In Wang Wenjun's view, the reason why the Wang Youzhi family deliberately fabricated the reason for seeking wages is to arouse the empathy of the masses, divert the public's attention, and win the sympathy of deception, so that everyone can stand on their side and put all the blame on the police.
Wang Wenjun felt that he had been wronged, and he was acting in a proper manner. Faced with suspects who gathered to stir up trouble and attacked the police, it was not a crime for him to stop the attack and cause an accidental death, and he was not ashamed.
Wang Wenjun's appeal is still ongoing, and the outcome is still unknown.
The Internet is full of all kinds of related news, including doubts about the reason for the salary, contempt for Wang Wenjun's statement, and conjecture that the whole case is a conspiracy to provoke the relationship between the police and the people.
There are many opinions, but many people do not know that since ancient times, the truth of right and wrong and lies has been intertwined and integrated, and it is difficult to distinguish.
In the case of Zhou Xiuyun's accidental death, it may be difficult to clarify the specific details of which is right and wrong, and it may be difficult for the two sides to clarify their respective opinions, but Zhou Xiuyun's death is a definite fact, and it is also a fact that her family has lost her loved ones because of this, and it is also an undeniable fact that Wang Wenjun did not fulfill his obligation as a policeman to cause death.
In the face of these established facts, Wang Wenjun must bear corresponding legal responsibility if he is guilty.
This case has sparked many people's thinking about healthy police-community relations. In fact, in the complex relationship between the police and the people, it is the duty of the police to strictly require themselves to fulfill their responsibilities to serve the people, and it is also the expectation of the society for this profession.
At the same time, the relationship between the police and the people is a two-way relationship, the people can not unilaterally ask the police, they also need to do a good job, do not add burden to the police for no reason, and a healthy relationship has always been the result of the efforts of both sides.