14 DAY TRIAL // The dramatic moment when a man in a wheelchair threatens to blow up an airport in Beijing, China has been caught on tape.
Ji Zhongxing has brought a gunpowder keg and you can see that he is serious about his attempt to obliterate the airport.
According to the Shanghaiist, the man was protesting abuse by local police, who allegedly beat him and left him for dead in 2005.
He was left paralyzed after the beating, which was apparently provoked by him running an unlicensed motorcycle taxi service in Dongguan.
“When I passed by the Xin Tang Public Security Office, I saw there were seven or eight chengguan blocking the road, holding steel rods and pipes.
“Just as I was about to brake, a chengguan threw one of the steel pipes across my face, throwing both myself and my passenger on the floor,” he writes in his blog.
He was pulled off the bike with a rod, at which point he lost consciousness and his passenger described how several officers had beat him with steel rods.
“When Gong Tao saw that I was conscious, he told me that policemen from Xin Tang Public Security […] refused to let me go and started hitting my legs, feet, waist, striking me furiously with the steel bars.
“They hit me until I was unconscious, and only took me to hospital when they'd seen the police car that was following me had also arrived onto the scene, and that I was practically dead. After that, they disappeared without a trace,” he writes.
The policemen beating him up were never caught or prosecuted. The gunpowder bomb used in the airport went off, but it only injured Zhongxing, and he is now hospitalized once more. The extent of his injuries is not known at this point.
