Posted on 03/27/2020 1:22:41 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Police in China clashed with each other and with people trying to cross a bridge between Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, according to footage uploaded to Chinese social media on Friday.
Video taken at the bridge Friday afternoon at the Yangtze River shows the escalation of violence as people try to leave Hubei, while police on the other side in Jiangxi try to block their passage, Canada's Globe and Mail reported.
The skirmish was filmed two days after Chinese authorities lifted travel restrictions against Hubei residents. China has resumed operations of trains and buses out of the coronavirus-hit province. On Friday, the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, was reclassified as a "medium risk" zone after being assigned a "high risk" rating since January.
Distrust of China's numbers and safety ratings may run high, however.
When Jiangxi police blocked people leaving Hubei, Hubei police fought back.
On Twitter, Chinese-Australian dissident and artist Badiucao said Friday the conflict "started due to police from different provinces fighting for jurisdiction on checking #COVID19."
The artist also described the incident as a "riot."
The footage also shows police vehicles being overturned and police pushing each other as crowds of people shout in protest, as they abandon the globally recommended policy of social distancing.
"It's dangerous for you to gather like this on the bridge," says Ma Yangzhou, secretary of the party committee in Huangmei County in Hubei, according to the Globe and Mail. Ma also said the "risk of virus infection" still remains, the report says.
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Whew! Thank goodness it wasn’t an American bridge between Hubei and Jiangxi provinces! The ChiComs are trying to blame us for the disease, we don’t need them blaming us for their citizens fighting.
Boy one doesn’t need an advanced degree to see that China is gonna keep getting hit by this thing.
Nothing like communism to make something bad into something Horrific.
Looks like the Chinese government has many more individuals who need to “disappear”.
“Everybody was Kung Flu Fighting...”
How did this get past their internet “firewalls”?
Chinese police fighting each other? Interesting.
During the Cultural Revolution, rival gangs of Red Guards would fight each other.
Let me know how that works out.
Odd result over at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Fighting+erupts+at+Chinese+bridge+between+Hubei+Jiangxi+provinces&sp=EgQIAxAB
Confucius say policeman who fight other policeman have cop-out.
Ahahahahhahahahaaa
Gee, racism even exists in China between 2 different Chinese provinces. How do they stop that racism? /sarcasm
China opening everything up doesn’t tell us anything about the state of the WuHan Flu in China now. It is an indication that Xi’s political goals have been accomplished and his power is more secure. The spread of the virus and the deaths of citizens is no longer politically relevant and so can be ignored just so long as the people are forced back into the factories.
Ping.
That bridge was built by the American Army last week.
I would think that what we have seen of spread in America would tell us that China cannot have this under control.
Wuhan may have been the epicenter, and they incinerated the sick, to get it stopped, there, but there is a whole lot of country and people left to go.
This from The Epoch Times too: (Link) Brave Young Woman in Wuhan Demands Her Rights Be Respected
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