Qingan County, Heilongjiang β The mother of a man who was recently killed by a policeman in a train station in China's northeast said her son got angry before a fight with the officer because he thought village authorities were told of the family's travel plans and that she had gotten in trouble in the past for going to big cities to beg in the streets. The woman also said her son had been drinking before the incident and she told police he had mental problems.
Xu Chunhe, a farmer with three children whose family is from a village in Qingan County, in Heilongjiang Province, was shot dead by a police officer he fought with at the local train station. This angered some Net users , who thought the officer should have used other measures to handle the situation. Witnesses told Caixin that Xu took a police baton from the officer, who has been identified in media reports as Li Lebin, and hit him with it.
Xu's mother, Quan Yushun, said her son told her he was in a bad mood and wanted to travel to Dalian, a large city in the province of Liaoning, to see an aunt. On May 2, he took his mother; daughter, 7; and two sons, aged 5 and 6, to the Qingan Railway Station and bought tickets.
The family had lunch at a nearby restaurant, Quan said, and her son drank a glass of strong alcohol and two bottles of beer, before taking the family to the train station's departure hall.
Quan said her son told her that authorities from their village had been told of their travel plans and he then became agitated. Wang Shuhua, the Communist Party head of Fengman Village where the family is from, and another official named Deng Limin, both told Caixin that authorities have stopped Quan from heading to Beijing and Dalian to beg for money on the streets several times. Wang said the village has spent 30, yuan to stop Quan from begging in big cities, where it is more lucrative than in smaller towns.
