Police Criticized In Bloody Nanjing Drunk Driving Accident

At 8pm on June 30 in Nanjing City, a Buick LaCrosse hit 9 people in Jiangning District and damaged 6 parked cars. Amongst these, 5 people died, including one pregnant woman, while the other 4 people are currently being treated at Jiangning District hospital. The driver was confirmed to have been drunk driving.

WARNING: Some of these pictures and videos may be graphic.

Videos after accident:

Video of a news report:

Video of remorseful driver:

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From Tianya:

Nanjing Jiangning 6/30 traffic accident, may I ask those police on duty: Could you have given those dead the slightest bit of respect?!

Ever since a Nanjing TX [同学 tong xue, schoolmate] called to tell me about this incident this morning, my heart has been rather uncomfortable.
So tonight I stayed by the television watching N reports about this incident.
[I was] Shocked! Pained! Saddened! Astonished!
With regards to that hit and run project manager, even if I used all of the dirty, crude words in my mind to describe him, they would not be enough. I am speechless! I simply cannot find any language to condemn and insult! I can only say that if in the end he cannot be sentenced to death for endangering public safety, then this world is truly without right or wrong and without justice!
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However, I am not here just to condemn the perpetrator.
I am not a very gossipy person nor an enthusiastic fenqing.
I am a female, an ordinary citizen, an ordinary spectator/observer.
The reason I have gone on Tianya to make a post is completely because I am angry! Truly too angry!

After seeing that news, what I could not help feeling shock and astonishment was not just the tragic car accident only.
Perhaps not many people have yet noticed
but in the midst of this traffic accident, the every action of those police officers on duty were such that I seriously dared not believe!

I truly really want to say that you guys are too inhumane! Too negligent! Too inconsiderate! Too disrespectful of life!
The entire road was full of police cars and special police cars. In front of huge crowds, in front of injured victims…
you guys actually picked up those broken arms and legs of the deceased, ran over and threw them directly onto that Nissan pickup truck!!!
That is a very small, old, lousy pickup truck, mostly used for electrical work!!!
Yet you guys actually took the dead and just piled them onto the back of the pickup truck!!!
Are the injured lying on the ground not innocent victims? You guys moving bodies like this, in front of all the injured, in front of all the masses on the street, in front of your organizing leadership!!! Are you guys butchers? Do you guys think the bodies in your hands are just lambs to be slaughtered???!!!

Seeing this scene, other than being shocked again and again, I truly do not know what to say!
I know that at the time the scene was very chaotic, and I thought maybe you guys were also maybe panicked? But what kind of people are you?! You are the people’s police, you understand the most how to defend our people, but with this accident, did you suddenly forget how to handle things? With this scene, did you guys just become overwhelmed?

I imagine the scene had too many people and it was very bloody, so maybe you guys were trying to handle everything as quickly as possible to avoid causing a panic! But even if it were so, you guys couldn’t call 120 [ambulance] to come carry away the dead???

Fine, maybe 120 would have taken too much time to come, maybe 120 wasn’t available! But for the lives that were just breathing a few minutes earlier, you couldn’t give these dead just a bit of respect? You guys couldn’t put the bodies in black plastic body bags first and then carry them away???

Fine, maybe you guys did not have any body bags on hand, but did you guys not have any clothes? You guys couldn’t use police uniforms to cover up these poor incomplete/deformed bodies before moving them???

Why??? Why??? Just why???

Facing that woman whose clothes were incomplete, facing that pregnant woman whose abdomen was burst open and the baby who was yet to be born, facing those already deformed victims. Why did you guys have to be so cruel in handling the scene???!!!

What made you guys behave so cold-bloodedly!!! What made you guys not know to respect the dead!!!!
They were all living people!!! Just a few minutes before they were still warm, they were like you guys with parents, with siblings, with children…those police officers!!! How could you guys bear treating the people lying on the ground like this!!!???

Going back ten thousand steps, leaving aside my anger towards you guys, and looking from another angle,
You guys handling the scene this way, handling the bodies as if you were transporting animals, allowed the bloodiness of the scene be completely revealed to the surrounding city citizens! Did you guys think of what kind of social impact this would have!!!???

You guys completely could have used a very humane method, and you guys also should have used a humane method to handle the scene! But you guys did not! All of the media, all of the people present including those of us in front of our televisions, saw was the scene of a slaughterhouse!!! This kind of practice is completely without professionalism!!! Even worse is that there was absolutely not even half a bit of basic respect for the dead, for the living!!!

I have thought of many different kinds of reasons for you guys, but in the end there was not a single one could persuade myself!!! I am just an ordinary girl, and even I could have thought of a better way of handling this. Such basic and necessary methods you guys did not think of? Did you really not think of them???!!!

Traffic accidents really are very intense, and that perpetrator truly deserves to be cursed and spit upon by everyone!!!
But what I want to say is that every single police officer there that night failed to live up to their responsibilities as public servants! You should be ashamed before the people! Ashamed before those dead! Ashamed before their families! I really want to say you guys should be ashamed of yourselves as people!!!

I was too angry, so I came [here]. I wanted to tell everyone who can see this post! I feel those police officers should apologize! The department involved should acknowledge that their handling of the matter was improper!!!

I do not have high hopes that you guys will publicly acknowledge your mistakes. I only hope you guys can realize that you guys really did wrong! I hope at least you guys are not insensitive/uncaring! I hope those police officers on duty can express their apologies to the dead victim’s families! Privately!

Really, I just want you guys to say sorry to those still-hurting and crying family members! Return to those unfortunate departed a bit of dignity!!! The basic dignity one who was part of the human race deserves!!!

Comments from Tianya:

诺曼底登陆D:

Indeed, too disrespectful, like they were carrying livestock.
Abroad they always have body bags.
Although, when no one respects you when you’re alive, what can you expect when dead.

李奇才:

This is handling it with Chinese characteristics? If the perpetrator is not given the death penalty, then that would be  administration of justice with extreme Chinese characteristics!!

喜欢杨沛宜:

At least use a piece of cloth to cover up the bodies and use a piece of wood to lift up the bodies, how could they just grab their arms and legs and just throw them onto the vehicle, that is too disrespectful to the dead!
Imagine if the dead were you guys’ own loved ones, would you have treated them the same way?
Police officers, your impression in the hearts of the people is already very poor, yet you guys do not even want to slowly bit by bit change how the people see you? Or do you guys believe there is no big deal with how you handled things this way, because after all it it just a routine way of handling problems?

下坡起步:

During the Sichuan Earthquake, each time the Japanese rescue team found a victim’s body, they observed the dignity of the dead with a collective moment of silence.

诚实的耗子:

I must say a few words. Louzhu, you are over-emotional and it would be good for you to go take a bath before coming back to read the replies!
Under this kind of situation, our JC comrades’ actions were completely understandable. You also know that these days traffic accidents are usually handled quickly…

期待大牛市:

These police officers lack a respect for life, incompetent!  I strongly despise!

That  driver should be given the death penalty, but unfortunately our country’s criminal law for these kinds of crimes at most is only 7 years and up imprisonment!

塞伦盖提:

At the very least, they should have determined whether or not the people were still alive.

Immediate assistance can save lives.

i9264934:

Every person will one day be disappointed by the true China.

do_it_yourself:

China’s education has never had anything related to respecting life, and the majority of people also do not have a religion. Everything is judged in terms of money, and for something like this to happen is not so strange either, because to those police officers, they think this is normal.

People who lack reverence for life is very frightening, because in certain situations they can very easily become the 1937 Japanese army in Nanjing…

ZF should question itself why Chinese people’s spiritual world has reached this point of collapse…

古道西风瘦驴:

Discussing how to severely punish the killer is much more meaningful than discussing this problem.

CattishCat:

How many times have I been angry, how many days, how many years…
They [government] still do what they always do.
When can they consider the ordinary common people?
Get used to it, just get used to it.

小阿呆xy:

The louzhu‘s feelings can be understood, but the police are not doctors, they do not have enough medical knowledge/common sense. Other than this, the average police officer does not often encounter such an intense scene, and most people at the time would probably likely have vomited, but given their duty, they had no choice but to move them.
Were I present, I bet I would be even more lost than them. It is very possible that I would have thrown up then and there, immediately gotten away, and would not have gone to help move the bodies.
Moving body parts requires body bags and a stretcher, but the police does not equip these things. If they did not move them, then they could only wait for 120 [ambulance].

hzxp:

Immediate cleanup to avoid creating negative impact. There are many masses who do not know the truth gathering, and this will be exploited by the minority with ulterior motives.

邪恶的小乌:

I do not know what to say. Seeing them one by one throwing the dead onto the pickup truck was very upsetting…
But I personally believe those police officers were not feeling good about it either.

sunnyfoggy:

1. Louzhu is too naive!!! Are the traffic police your parents? They have a duty to transport the bodies at the scene, but they do not have a duty to treat dead bodies the way a living person is treated, and what more, they are used to seeing dead bodies! You see a scene of bodies and say it is tragic, but how often have you seen even worse? Every few days traffic police need to go touch [dead bodies]! Can you hope that each time the traffic police sees a scene of dead bodies that they will treat them and look after them like their own loved ones? I can say, there are traffic police like this, but very regretfully, the traffic police naive louzhu saw were indeed the same as the vast majority of ordinary traffic police. Not every traffic police are saints!!!

2. Louzhu is too innocent!!! Can you hope that every surgeon when performing surgery can consider every sufferer’s pain, putting himself in other people’s shoes to consider the sufferer? If so, this society would no longer have medical disputes, and there would not be family members of patients staging sit ins in front of hospitals from time to time, blocking the entrance, causing trouble! Can you hope that when the ordinary people’s parents [government officials] are embezzling that they think the money may be the blood and sweat money of the ordinary people, their emergency money? Then China would no longer have corrupt officials!!!

3. Louzhu is too ridiculous!!! Who you are targeting is not the traffic police, but all of society, all of conscience!  Even the citizens of developed countries have not reached the louzhu‘s ideal heights, much less the citizens of a trivial developing country with an extremely poor education system!
If you have nothing to do, stay in your blankets and think, and if you cannot figure things out, hiding in there and crying is okay too. Society is like this…”so it is!!!”

Understand?

Louzhu is still young! Appraisal complete!!!