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| Police chief arrests 48 relatives |
| 2008-11-11 |
| A POLICE chief in a remote county of southwestern China has taken down 48 of his relatives for various crimes including brothers, cousins and a number of his wife's family, local media said today. Laobulaluo, a police chief in Heizhugou township, Sichuan province, had seen 25 relatives either jailed, sent for "re-education through labour", or punished in other ways, according to a report posted on a state news website. The police chief, who is in his 30s, is a member of China's Yi ethnic minority. Over a 10-year career, he had personally arrested a brother and two cousins after finding they had beaten local teachers at a primary school while drunk. Other family members were arrested after stealing a woman's handbag. The policeman's sense of duty had inflamed his relatives, some of whom had taken turns threatening his parents, and had "even secretly cut off the tails and slashed the legs of their cows," the report said. "In the first few years, I did not dare head back to my hometown to pass the New Year holiday, but now it's all right. Everyone understands and supports what I was doing at the time," the report quoted him as saying. |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #4 Sounds like a guy who hates his relatives, actually. A couple, or even a half-dozen, I could write up to stern sense of duty, or cracking down on good-for-nothing family trying to trade in on their connections. A couple of dozen? I don't think so. Boy hates his family. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-11-11 14:25 |
| #3 ...had seen 25 relatives either jailed, sent for "re-education through labour", or punished in other ways Sounds like he's a true believer. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-11-11 12:30 |
| #2 well at least he don't turn a blind eye when it comes too family. can't say that about alot of lawmen here in the US |
| Posted by: chris 2008-11-11 08:11 |
| #1 "even secretly cut off the tails and slashed the legs of their cows," Hey that's not cool. Like messin with a man's tractor here. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-11-11 07:08 |