Hong Kong man sentenced to 9 months for attempting to throw bricks at police officers. Judge: Will not tolerate any attempts to attack police
[Global Net Reporter Yin Yanhui] According to a Hong Kong "Sing Tao Net" report on January 22, a 60-year-old truck driver in Hong Kong was accused of picking up bricks and attempting to throw them at an illegal rally in Tsim Sha Tsui in October the previous year. The sheriff was arrested.
The Kowloon City Court today (22nd) convicted the truck driver of an attempt to assault a police officer who was properly performing his duties.
When sentenced, the judge stated that he would not tolerate any attempt to attack the police officer and sentenced him to 9 months in prison.
According to the report, the judge stated during sentencing that the defendant Zeng Weiguang argued that he only had a grade three (third grade in elementary school) and did not know how to read Chinese. The written admission record was written by the police officer himself. He only signed the report upon request and did not know the content of the report. .
However, the judge questioned that the defendant was a professional driver and must pass a written test to obtain a license plate, and the defendant must first understand and understand the relevant issues before passing the written test, so he did not believe that the defendant did not have general reading ability.
In addition, if the police officer really wrote the report on his own, he would have no reason to write some excuses for the defendant, and it would be impossible to correctly write the nature of the defendant’s work without any basis.
In addition, the defendant also claimed to be at the scene just to join in the fun, and his action on that day was actually to bend over and throw off debris.
However, the judge did not accept this statement, saying that the police officer was only 10 meters away from the defendant at the time, the street lights were normal, there was no obstruction between the two, and the police officer could clearly describe his actions, so he did not think that the police officer would confuse the actions of dropping and throwing. .
The judge questioned, since the defendant stayed because of the excitement, why didn't he stay in a safer place to observe, instead he stood 10 meters away from the police officer, obviously putting himself in a dangerous place. The argument was incredible, and he was finally convicted. Established.
When sentenced, the judge stated that someone threw sundries at the police that day. Although the defendant did not successfully throw out the bricks in his hand, his behavior was "to add fuel to the fire."
If it were not for the police officers to act decisively and successfully stop the defendant's actions, the consequences could be very serious.
The court will not condone and condone attempts to attack police officers, otherwise the safety of the police will not be guaranteed and social peace will be undermined. The sentence must be deterrent, so the defendant was sentenced to 9 months in prison.