China: Videos of crowd attacking a police car break through digital firewall in ‘new trend’


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Multiple videos of a crowd in China attacking and flipping over a police car have gone viral on social media, marking another incident of civil disobedience that has broken through the country's wall of digital censorship. A large group of people gathered in Luyi County, Henan, on 2 January, where it's understood that frustrations against a fireworks ban escalated to people pushing an officer and attacking a police car. Some threw fireworks at the then-empty vehicle, smashed its windows and climbed on top of the car to stamp and dance on it. Social media users drew a link between this...