I finally gleaned that he was engaging in a hunger strike to protest having to support his daughter, whom he had abandoned. A court ordered him to support her. Had he not left her, the court would never have gotten involved.
Here is the relevant paragraph from the article:
Dr. Chang's experience is one that has been repeated many times across the country over the past fifteen years. Sheriff's deputies literally kicked in the door to his apartment and arrested him at gunpoint - weeks after he had made necessary payments. Employees at the Middlesex County Child Support Department had refused to help weeks earlier after his employer had missed a child support payment and miscalculated another. His employer is charged with making payments after deducting them from his pay, a common practice since the early 1990s. Dr. Chang points out that his employer is generally cooperative with the agency, but had made errors after an end-of-year payroll conversion. He contacted the child support agency and sent the money himself, but that didn't stop the violent enforcement action weeks later.
Where do you get any sense that Dr. Chang abandoned his daughter?
Dr. Chang is protesting the Jack Booted Thug tactics of a police state that punishes him after he has done the right thing.
From your other posts, I expect better. This issue has been so well used by the OldDominantLiberalMedia to beat up men, that I might expect people to be taken in by all the propaganda, I suppose.
From first hand experience with these people this is a common thing. They'll screw up the process, after it's withheld from the guy's paycheck. Then, when the ex-wife calls them and complains, they come after him, hell bent on collecting money that's already been garnished from his pay. A very similar situation happened to me, when I called the Agency the response I got was "It's YOUR responsibility to see that your ex-wife gets paid on time." Never mind the fact that the money is garnished and sent to her before I even see it. A few years later I went to get a car loan, I found out they put "failure to pay child support" on my credit report. Loads of fun straightening that one out.