He Guangwei | Not every police station is in Xiancun

The case of the trainee lawyer who was handcuffed by auxiliary police to the police station for asking the house-checking personnel to show their credentials reminds me of “Passing Xincun Police Station”.

Five years ago, on August 17, 2018, at around 3:35 PM, was the time of my case of “Passing Xincun Police Station”.

Although five years have passed, I still cannot forget what happened at that time and the subsequent insults from some official accounts and self-media.

For example, the official accounts of Henan Luyi Public Security, Jilin Ji’an Public Security, and Shaanxi Lantian Public Security, they unanimously called me “inciting netizens to violate the law” as “Internet ruffian”.

Since then, I have gained another resounding title in the Jianghu: Internet ruffian. A netizen asked: What would happen if you called the heads of those three public security bureaus Internet ruffians? I replied that if I did the opposite, I would definitely be detained.

Although I have been calling out to them for the past five years, and occasionally reporting their shameless acts to the local discipline inspection commission, they have not apologized to me to this day.

Many netizens have left messages on my Weibo saying “waiting for an apology”, and I replied to them: They won’t apologize, I guess they won’t apologize in this lifetime.

Also, Zhao Zhigang’s remnant – Wang Dong, the executive editor of the magazine “Qingfengyuan” under the Jiangsu Provincial Procuratorate, a former prosecutor, and a positive energy V in the national procuratorial system, the operator of “CU Jian Shuo Fa”, personally took up the pen to criticize me, and after promising to delete the articles that slandered me, he went back on his word and continued to scold me. I have never seen a man who doesn’t keep his word like this.

More online self-media also almost unanimously scolded me as a “scum” and a criminal, and they also put a big hat on me: He Guangwei wants to abolish the “Police Law” that is being revised.

Am I that awesome? Can I decide to amend or abolish the law? You really think Lao He is a National People’s Congress representative.

Including the official accounts of the Yuexiu District Procuratorate and the Huangpu District Procuratorate of Guangzhou City also almost simultaneously condemned me. The author of the article of the Huangpu Procuratorate’s official account was actually in the same group as me. After seeing the article, I had another fight with him in the group.

When I was about to sue the Xincun Police Station, Li Chunsheng, the then head of Guangdong and my fellow villager, also sent a message: You’ve become an internet celebrity, that’s enough.

According to Li Chunsheng’s meaning at the time, he felt that I had ruined the image of the Guangdong police under his rule, which was exactly the same as Gan Rongkun’s view that I reported the case of the Xinyang Public Security selling official positions.

According to the author’s self-description in the article “After asking the house-checking personnel to show their police ID, I was handcuffed to the police station”, he was checked in the hotel and I was checked for my ID card at the entrance of the police station, both of which are due to the standardization of police law enforcement. This time he was enforced, actually checking the hotel registration is not standardized or checking the ID card.

In my opinion, although the “Police Law” has been revised, the police should strictly abide by the “Police Law” in law enforcement. Checking ID cards should not only be based on the “Police Law”, but also comply with the provisions of the “Identity Card Law”.

It is said that Liwan District also held a learning experience meeting for my “Passing Xincun Police Station” that year.

Although I studied computer science, I am not as professional as the author of the above article, who graduated from Southwest University of Political Science and Law and is a trainee lawyer, but I have still studied the “Police Law” and the “Identity Card Law”. My understanding of the legal basis for the police to check ID cards is still the same as it was five years ago.

After reading the content of the above article, I think that the trainee lawyer’s experience in the Xingfu Street Police Station of Heze City, Shandong Province, is really miserable. Compared to him, those few hours in the Xincun Police Station of Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, are nothing.

Fortunately, the Heze police reported that the involved team leader was suspended and the auxiliary police were fired. This trainee lawyer did not go to the procuratorate to sue several times in vain and got the result.

This reminds me that soon after my “Passing Xincun Police Station”, a netizen told me: Someone was checked for their ID card at the subway station, and later they obstructed official duties.

Later, there was also a lawyer from my hometown in Henan who was forced to kneel down to show his ID card at the subway station in Guangzhou, and the person who checked his ID card also laid hands on him.

We are a country ruled by law, and governing the country according to law must be engraved in our bones, especially the police who enforce the law must enforce the law according to law.

To handcuff people just to check an ID card, although the harm is not great, the insult is extremely strong, this approach is really wrong.

Thinking about my passing Xincun Police Station five years ago, Xincun Police Station is really civilized enough. I was not handcuffed at the time, and my “Passing Xincun Police Station” is still alive, which has proved the openness and inclusiveness of Guangzhou.

To put it in a sentence I said in my WeChat Moments today: Not every police station is in Xincun, and not everyone who goes to the police station and refuses to be checked for their ID card is Lao He. When encountering the police checking ID cards, we ordinary people should still show it, because not every police officer can enforce the law according to law.