Deng Zhaomei, a 64-year-old woman from Wei County, Hebei, had never petitioned before.
While working at a nursing home in Fangshan, Beijing, she learned from Douyin that if she encountered injustice, she could report it to the National Bureau of Letters and Calls, which is where the common people can reflect their problems. When she resigned and returned to her hometown, she wanted to see where the Bureau of Letters and Calls was, so she took a bus and went to the north of Taoran Bridge.
Unexpectedly, in broad daylight, Deng Zhaomei was beaten by a group of people, resulting in three fractures of the lumbar spine and a burst fracture. She is still bedridden and unable to take care of her bowel movements.
Deng’s children went to the Tianqiao Police Station in Xicheng District, Beijing, to report the case, but the police have not filed the case for almost a month.
**Want to see where the Bureau of Letters and Calls is, where the common people can reflect their problems**
Deng Zhaomei started working as a caregiver in a nursing home in Beijing on February 21, 2023, and resigned on August 31, 2023. She planned to take a bus back to her hometown on September 1, 2023. While working, she watched legal education videos on her phone, which said that if she encountered injustice, she could report it to the National Bureau of Letters and Calls, and the video also mentioned the specific address. She always wanted to see where this place that serves the common people is and what it looks like.
On the morning of September 1, 2023, after storing her luggage, she took a bus to find this place. **Before this, she had never filed a lawsuit or petitioned, and this time she was not going to petition, and she didn’t even know that there was such a place as the Bureau of Letters and Calls**.
**Just because of a sentence, she was intercepted and injured by strangers on the road**
She took the No. 40 bus and got off at the Taoran Bridge North bus stop in Xicheng District, Beijing. After getting off the bus, a woman asked her: Where are you going? She replied: Do you know how to get to the Bureau of Letters and Calls? The lady pointed her in the direction diagonally opposite. After crossing the road, she walked about 100 meters towards the bus stop and was stopped by two strange men who asked her: «What are you doing? Are you going to the Bureau of Letters and Calls»? She replied: «It’s none of your business whether I’m going to the Bureau of Letters and Calls or not, who are you? There’s no need to tell you».
**After saying this, the two men on the other side actually started to snatch her bag, and one attacked her from behind, causing her to have a sudden pain in her waist. She felt like she was kicked or hit with a knee.** At this time, four more people came over and pushed her into a car. During this period, the two who had snatched her bag were rummaging through her bag.
**Thinking she had encountered a mafia robbing her, but the other party said they were police?**
In the car, they claimed that they were staff members of the Bureau of Letters and Calls, that they were the police, and asked her why she was petitioning? She truthfully replied that she was just there to take a look. When she asked the other party: You said you are the police, why don’t you wear a police uniform or identify yourselves, and just snatch my bag and beat me? The other party did not respond.
She couldn’t sit because of the pain in her waist, so she could only lie down. She thought she had encountered a robbery and could only look for an opportunity to contact her family to call the police, but her phone was snatched away and she was told: If you shout again, I’ll tape your mouth shut! After that, the car stopped for four or five hours without moving. In her despair, the other party actually said to her: Your town government will come to pick you up in a while.
Waiting until dark, around eight o’clock in the evening, the staff of the town government and the village cadres came to pick her up and asked her what happened. After questioning, she realized that **she was mistaken for a petitioner and intercepted! She was unable to bear the pain and asked to be sent to the hospital immediately, but no one paid any attention to her.** Then, after a few hours of driving, she was sent to the local hospital by the town government’s car.
After getting in the car, the car started immediately, and she dared not lie down at first, but later she couldn’t bear the pain and had to lie down. In the car, they said to her: «Tell us if you have anything to say, we are the Bureau of Letters and Calls, we are the police». She said: «I’m not here to petition, I saw on Douyin that there is a Bureau of Letters and Calls here, I’m here to see if there is really such a place». The people in the car rummaged through her shoulder bag and said to her: «You still say you’re not petitioning, look at how many of these things you’ve copied (hand-copied pictures)». She truthfully replied: «This is what I saw on Douyin, the country has this policy, I’m very happy, so I came to see it.»
They also said to her: «Don’t go petitioning if you have something to say, don’t make trouble»、»**We are the public security, see the police car of the public security bureau we are driving, we are the public security bureau**». She said: «Have you explained to me? You snatched my bag halfway, and started beating me, I haven’t even walked to the door of the Bureau of Letters and Calls. Why don’t you wear the uniform of the Public Security Bureau, why don’t you bring the badge of the Public Security Bureau»? One of the men said to her: «Don’t look at how honest you look, your mouth is still very sharp». **She replied: «I was employed in the nursing home, I came out of the nursing home, and people are missing, the family members will definitely ask the nursing home for people, the nursing home has my ID information. If you harm me, none of you can run away**».
Although the other party claimed to be from the Public Security Bureau, she never believed it, because the other party was not wearing a police uniform, **she still believes that she has encountered a robbery by the mafia** . She was afraid of being robbed of her money, so she quickly said that she was very poor, and wanted them to pity her and let her go. She said to them: «**My husband is sick, and I only came out to work because my family is poor. I don’t have a penny, if I had money, would I still have to go out to work? I’m so old, and when I go out to work, people dislike me for being old, thin, and sick, and no one wants me**».
Later they asked her: «How many children do you have»? She quickly said «I don’t know, I don’t know, don’t ask me». They also asked «Is your husband’s surname Yang»? She also said: «I don’t know, I don’t know, don’t ask me».
**The town government came to pick her up, and she realized that she was mistaken for a petitioner**
After questioning, they threw her bag and phone back to her. She secretly sent a message to her relatives saying that she had encountered bad people and to call the police. Before this, her family had already received the news that she had been intercepted when she went to petition. Her family replied: «The village cadres will come to pick you up in a while, don’t be afraid». She saw the message reply and quickly dialed the phone, shouting as soon as it was connected: «Call the police, I’ve encountered bad people»! The people in the car snatched the phone away and threatened: «If you shout again, I’ll tape your mouth shut»!
Around eight o’clock in the evening, the staff of the town government and the village cadres came to pick her up. After the town government’s car arrived, the village cadres got in the car and asked her what was going on, and she truthfully replied everything that happened. **After seeing the village cadres, she finally understood that she was mistaken for a petitioner!**
When she changed from the police car to the town government’s car, because of the pain in her waist, she dared not get out of the car, and her request to be sent to the hospital immediately was also ignored. She held the car door with her hands and refused to get out of the car. The people in the police car **ignored her crying and begging, forcibly pried open her hands, and dragged her, who weighed less than 80 pounds, out of their car and put her in another car!**
Three fractures of the lumbar spine, burst fracture, but the police did not accept the case
After she was taken to the town government’s car and sent to the county hospital for a physical examination. The report came out at 2:00 a.m. on September 2, 2023: **three fractures of the lumbar spine, burst fracture**, requiring hospitalization. The medical staff said that it might constitute a minor injury and that she would have to undergo an assessment. She had large areas of bruising on her arms.
The family members immediately called the police at the hospital, and **the county police station replied after inquiring about the situation: you need to go to the police station where the incident occurred to report the case.** The family members went to the police station where the incident occurred in Beijing to report the case, and **the Beijing police, on the grounds that the other party was riding in a Hebei police car, believed that the other party was a public official performing official duties, and verbally notified the family members to go to the relevant local departments to reflect the situation.**
Almost a month has passed since the incident, and **the victim’s family members have reflected and returned to the relevant local and Beijing departments many times, but there has been no progress, and there has not even been a police case.** Each department has its own self-consistent reasons and «related» regulations that it cannot manage.
But Deng Zhaomei, who is currently lying in bed and is still unable to take care of her bowel movements, and whose psychological state is very negative, has not yet seen the Bureau of Letters and Calls, and has been beaten. What reason should she find to accept the reality that no case has been filed? Is it «it is right to be beaten when you get close to the Bureau of Letters and Calls»?
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