Driver who photographed Chinese police breaking traffic rules, manhandled, forced to kneel in street
Officer later suspended and told to apologise for his actions in Shenzhen, TV stations reports
A police officer in southern China made a driver kneel in the street after he took photographs of the policeman’s vehicle breaking traffic regulations, according to a TV report.
The officer in Shenzhen later apologised to the driver after he was suspended from his post, Guangdong Television reported.
The driver, whose full name was not given, saw a police truck cut across a solid white line marking in the road to move from the right to the middle lane, blocking his own car.
After a traffic light turned red, the driver got out of his car and took pictures of the truck, which had stopped across more than one lane. Shenzhen police have offered rewards to people who take photographs of traffic violations as part of a road safety campaign launched last year.
A police officer and his assistants then pinned the driver to the ground, grabbed his mobile phone and made him kneel on the side of the road, the report said.