On the afternoon of July 6, 2025, a video of a group of young people in Zhengzhou People’s Park assaulting a homosexual circulated in a WeChat group. This public account uploaded the video and commented on it, attracting the attention of some netizens.
Later, the poet Mu Cao, who had a better understanding of the situation, recounted the cause and effect as he knew it. I compiled the accounts of other netizens and published a second article.
Unfortunately, both articles were deleted. But fortunately, the official WeChat account of China Newsweek gave a brief report on the matter.
Today, July 9, a reporter from Sanxiang Metropolis Daily learned from relevant departments that the local public security organs have arrested 17 suspects involved in the case, and 11 people have been criminally detained, and 6 people have been administratively detained (5 of whom are not executed because they are under 16 years old).
It is understood that the above-mentioned personnel all established contact through the Internet and repeatedly initiated the crime temporarily, agreeing to commit the crime. The case is being further handled.
Thanks to the rapid response of the Zhengzhou police, the processing speed is comparable to that of the Nanjing police who handled the case of Mr. Jiao. Thanks to the follow-up report of Sanxiang Metropolis Daily. China has always had negative reports, and local media have cross-running positions. Dahe Daily is one of the very few local media that occasionally makes amazing reports in recent years, but it is estimated that Dahe Daily has deep roots in Henan, and the reaction chain is long, hoping to eliminate the impact as soon as possible, and did not grab the first point of landing, which is understandable.
Slightly bizarre, but actually easy to understand, is that Sanxiang Metropolis Daily and many reprinted media, including Beijing News, did not mention the cause and effect of this matter, and none of the media mentioned the word “homosexual”. After reading it, ordinary readers will naturally regard it as the most ordinary and common social news and will not take a glance.
Henan has not only produced the three new consumption stars of Mixue, pop mart, and Pang Donglai, but Zhengzhou is also becoming a “core growth pole of high-quality development regions”. The Zhengzhou police’s response this time was also very rapid and well done, which is worthy of praise.
“Beating rabbits” reappeared in 2025. These videos touched the deepest pain points of sexual minorities and the sad past of the gay community, so everyone felt the same way, and they worked together and relayed calls to the local area to communicate the situation and follow up on the progress. If there were no netizens across the country calling the mayor’s hotline, calling Zhengzhou 110, and calling the telephone numbers of the Jiefang Road and Minggong Road police stations to conduct telephone supervision, the processing might not have been so fast? We should thank ourselves!
Before, I still suspected whether Zhengzhou could handle it impartially and quickly, and many people were not optimistic about it. Zhengzhou slapped us in the face! We are more likely to raise the question of “the times are regressing” because of something or someone, and we pay less attention to the details of the progress of the times, so we should also see the highlights and shining points. Of course, it would be even better if the media could fully restore the incident.
I hope that the young people who are being dealt with and the local comrades will turn conflicts into harmony, walk on the right path from then on, know their mistakes and correct them, and become promising young people. Sexual minorities are not aliens, they are around everyone, they are everyone’s relatives, friends, colleagues, and classmates. You can’t see them, just because the environment you and they are in is not friendly enough, and they dare not surface, they can only hide themselves. Without better channels for making friends, they can only risk the risk of mosquitoes in summer and snow in winter, and drill into the woods.
According to netizen @流年染指青春, it was his gay friend who went to People’s Park to play and was beaten. Mengmeng, the friend’s fake marriage partner, was very righteous and stood up for her partner, undercover in that small group. When everyone was eating together and “appreciating” the video of the beating, she secretly forwarded it to her mobile phone, and then uploaded it to the Internet for everyone to see.
This group of people filmed the video to extort the person who was beaten, and they could only get money if no one saw it. At the same time, the video also recorded the perpetrators’ own evil deeds, so they should not have the intention to upload it to the Internet internally, and it is likely that outsiders uploaded it. I don’t know if this story retold by Liu Nian has any exaggeration or untrue elements – because it is too dramatic. If there is really this Mengmeng and her righteous act, then she deserves to be called a female knight by everyone.
In similar news in the past, it is rare to see such a good and fast result, which is very surprising, and I hope it will be maintained.
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