People in black uniforms surround an old man's bicycle in Nantong, Zhejiang province, China.
Then, he takes all the sugar cane that was loaded there.
The old man cries without even being able to resist.
This video of 'Cheonggwan', called city managers, cracking down on street vendors became controversial as it spread online in China.
[Street vendor's granddaughter: Does Cheonggwan have the right to do something like this?
If my grandfather didn't break the law, wouldn't it be violent law enforcement?]
Earlier, in September, in the same area, a government official used violence against an old woman's street vendor.
He threw the rebellious old woman to the floor to prevent her from taking the confiscated items.
Government officials who are entrusted with local administrative agencies to crack down on street vendors and manage city sanitation are only some managers, and most of them are contract workers who are hired from time to time.
However, the ruthless crackdown on subsistence street vendors has often been the subject of outrage.
There was strong sympathy for a street vendor who was arrested and executed in 2013 for the murder of two officers while resisting the indiscriminate beatings of the crackdown team.
However, as the number of areas in which recruited people are working without proper education or subcontracting government affairs work is increasing, the controversy over government officials wielding undisputed powers continues.
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It's an order from the city government, so if you rebel, you can be beaten to death!] The
Nantong City authorities, where the government official problem arose, said that they hadtily suspended those involved, but critics and voices calling for system improvement are growing.