I think I only need 2 more punches on my VIP police card to get a free sandwich.
Seriously I have called 110 (911) so many times this week for good reason that I literally had a cop car out front of the coffee shop so they could keep a closer eye on me. I had money stolen from my company this week and the police just laughed at me. But when I was accused of taken $2 worth of junk from the new management company I had 8 officers there in a heartbeat ready to arrest me if I didn’t cooperate. The difference? The guy accusing me is a guy with power and money. He has relationships with the police. I don’t. The same policemen that laughed at me a few days before were back and demanding action over some junk. Welcome to the dichotomy of China. For people with power and money anything can be done in a heartbeat. For everyone else that makes us 99% of the country, good luck. Even if that wasn’t enough, the new management company guy threatened me even with the police standing right there and the police didn’t even blink. It could not have been more obvious and direct.
6:00 PM January 17th - the Police return
After finally getting to the bottom of the power situation, I returned with my manager to the old management company to discuss where everyone’s money for the electricity bills had gone. The power company said that the old management company wouldn’t even take their calls to work this problem out. Granted it was Sunday night but in light of this situation I expected the workers in the office to at least call the people in charge to answer a few questions. When they ignored me and told me to come back sometime next week, I told them it was really crucial to talk to someone tonight. Well they didn’t even look up from their TV show when I asked them the second time. Maybe I lit too big of a fire to the situation but I wasn’t in the mood to be disrespected and ignored when the stakes where so high and I spent so long being lied to by both of the management companies. So I unplugged the monitor that they were watching. Well that got them up on their feet and ready to take action. Unfortunately not the action I was looking for. They went to guns blazing in a half a second and were in our face yelling and threatening a beat down. So we called the police.
Busy signal.
Perfect, nothing like being in an emergency and the emergency line being busy. 4 or 5 minutes later the police did finally arrive to try to get a hold of the situation. You will never believe what side these police immediately took. The other people. Yes I did aggravate those old management company guys and I probably deserved the reaction I got but we certainly weren’t the ones that were threaten to beat someone up when the police arrived. From the management guy’s suggestion the police accused us of coming here to steal from them despite the fact that the office is no longer operational and completely barren of anything of value. I begged the police to file a report last week when I was stolen from but they said no way. This time they were filling a report without even being asked. I think I may have set a record for a foreigner and police reports in a 3 day span without actually doing anything illegal.
Everything seemed to be fine despite the uproar until the management guys got up in my manager’s face swearing at her and calling her names despite the presence of 7 cops in the room.
The police did nothing.
They simply watched.
So I did what any crazy person would do and stepped in front of my manager and put some distance between her and these two guys. When they pushed forward to get at her again I pushed them back against the wall with some force. That’s when one of them punched me in the throat and only let go when I was able to push him back off again.
The police just watched.
No attempt to help.
And when things settled down again their only recollection was that the foreigner tried to hit the Chinese men and they didn’t see the Chinese men do anything! You have got to be kidding! What does it take to get some justice here. I refuse to let Chinese thugs threaten people and especially women without any recourse. If it means I am the one that has to pay the consequences then so be it. I am willing to accept the consequences for my actions.
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