Aftermath:
On 11 January 2023, the driver of a black BMW X3 deliberately rammed his vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians and motorists on Tianhe Road in Guangzhou, China, killing six people and injuring 29 others. 22-year-old Wen Qingyun was arrested in connection to the attack, sentenced to death, and subsequently executed on 19 April 2024.
The crash took place on Wednesday during the evening rush hour at a busy junction in the southern city of 19 million.
"He deliberately drove into the people who were waiting for the traffic light. He rammed the car into them maliciously. After that, he made a U-turn and hit people again," an eyewitness told local outlet Hongxin News.
"He wasn't driving too quickly, but some people couldn't run away in time because they wouldn't have known he was hitting people deliberately."
The man also reportedly drove into a traffic police officer and his motorcycle, but the officer managed to escape.
One widely circulated clip shows a young girl lying on the ground at the scene of the incident, while a woman said to be her mother is seen by her side wailing.
Another eyewitness described the chaos of the aftermath on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. The person said that an hour after the incident, the site was still filled with ambulances and traffic police "and they had not moved all the injured and the bodies from the scene".
"The scene was too tragic and I couldn't bear seeing it. I felt so sad that I wanted to throw up whenever I heard the siren of the ambulance," the person said.
The incident has sparked public anger, with many expressing sorrow that it happened in the lead-up to Chinese New Year, a time for family reunions.
"The victims could be a girl who dressed up meticulously to go on a date… It could be a food deliveryman who earned five yuan after rushing an order. It could be a father who wanted to go home and have dinner with children. It could be a child who was happily shopping," one Weibo user wrote.
Many noted that the man drove a luxury car and had thrown money into the air, and asked if he came from a rich and powerful family.
The incident quickly became a trending topic on Weibo on Wednesday, but it later disappeared from the "hot searches" list, leading users to accuse the platform of censorship.
There have been similar recent incidents. In February 2022, a driver ploughed a mini truck into people in the southern province of Fujian, killing three and injuring nine.
Earlier this week, a hotel guest in Shanghai deliberately drove his car into the lobby following an argument with staff. Nobody was injured in that incident.
Timeline of the attack:
-Intersection at Tianhe Road and Tiyu East Road: Multiple pedestrians were struck
-Intersection at Tiyu East Road and Tianhe South 1st Road: A woman crossing the sidewalk was hit
-Intersection at Tianhe Road and Tiyu East Road: Several pedestrians were knocked down
-Near Shipaiqiao Bus Station on the south side of Tianhe Road: Three people were struck; two delivery drivers, and a pedestrian riding a bicycle
-Intersection at Tianhe South 2nd Road and Tianhe East Road: More pedestrians, including a woman on the sidewalk, were hit
-South side of the intersection at Tianhe South 2nd Road and Tiyu East Road: A traffic policeman was struck
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thats the guy
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How was Bro Executed?
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Yes
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wish I knew
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China commonly employs two methods of execution. Since 1949, the most common method has been execution by firing squad, which has been largely superseded by lethal injection, using the same three-drug cocktail pioneered by the United States, introduced in 1996.
In 2010, Chinese authorities moved to have lethal injection become the dominant form of execution; in some provinces and municipalities, it is now the only legal form of capital punishment
The Dui Hua foundation notes that it is impossible to ascertain whether these guidelines are closely followed, as the method of execution is rarely specified in published reports
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One thing I respect about China is that they do not fuck around when someone is sentenced to death. Only took 14 or 15 months from the time of the crime to his execution. Meanwhile, the USA usually takes 15-20+ years to actually execute a condemned prisoner. They sit on death row, exhausting every possible appeal while the taxpayers feed and provide them with health care for decades in many cases.
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We've found quite a few death row inmates innocent of crimes that they previously were convicted for. Sometimes they don't figure it out til 15 or 20 years later
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That is true. Hopefully, as forensic science advances, the possibility of wrongful convictions and execution is greatly lessened. I was able to find two US cases where men were executed despite significant reasonable doubt. One of them was Larry Swearingen, who had always claimed he was innocent of the murderer of Melissa Trotter in 1998. Substantial inconsistencies in the evidence were highlighted by Swearingen's lawyers over many years, including DNA material gathered from the victim's fingernails that did not match the prisoner's. Prosecutors relied on circumstantial evidence.
Shortly before his execution, Swearingen told the Washington Post: “Today the state of Texas murdered an innocent man.”
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Yah I don't trust the government with how they spend my tax money, I sure as fuck don't trust them with the power to kill. We can all whine and cry about violent criminals not getting what they deserve, but it's about your right to life too.
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We need fast track laws for when there's overwhelming evidence. Someone like Darrell Brooks needs to get the death penalty and if there is overwhelming evidence they don't need many appeals. My biggest concern with the death penalty is that innocent people could get executed based on false testimony or flawed evidence. That's not the case when hundreds of people witness it and there's all kinds of other evidence.
Idk, I've heard there's a method to the madness with the death penalty in the US. If every murderer knew he was going to get executed, then most would try to go down shooting and take some cops with them. Maybe take a hostage, or they'd try way harder to flee to Canada or Mexico.
Instead they don't exactly know what'll happen and that entices them to surrender peacefully.
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It's NOT just the cost of feeding them and such. Death row cases are VERY expensive - with all the appeals and such.
It's actually cheaper to keep them in jail for the rest of their lives.
"The study counted death penalty case costs through to execution and found that the median death penalty case costs $1.26 million. Non-death penalty cases were counted through to the end of incarceration and were found to have a median cost of $740,000."
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Exactly. I forgot to mention that, thanks for pointing it out. The hearings, the appeals, on and on..the costs are astronomical. Thanks
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Bro was not in GTA ☠️
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BMWs are the car equivalent of Pitbulls, it's always them.
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pov: him
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Imagine the mob had he did this in a Latin country, police wouldn't have been able to save him in time. Here after he did all that it looks like one guy is giving him a lecture and everyone else just walks away. The difference culture makes in how people behave and react to stress quite amusing.
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"some people couldn't run away in time because they wouldn't have known he was hitting people deliberately."
Funny how they thought he could've just been a bad driver. At least the sentence was carried out fairly quick
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The fact that they(the victims) could not conceive that another person could ever do such a thing, while this is an actual public safety issue in China, shows what a cultural disparity, where people can't even see to themselves that shit is fucked up enough that some people will crack like this.
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Causes rampage but still needs to do a 4 point turn on a wide city avenue
Asian drivers…
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Smug looking POS at the end. Rot in pieces.
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A former expat explains the phenomenon
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BMW drivers are all assholes.
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This is an argument in favor of the U.S. approach to law enforcement. Here you can see the cops standing around, hesitating to do anything to neutralize the threat to the public, only able to do so until the maniac's car gave up.
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Especially since there were no cops in cars, so there's not much they can do, I'm afraid.
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Huge killstreak and assists
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Why he is executed. So sad
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Execution van incoming.
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Where are american cops magdumping him or latino mobs beating him when you need them.
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average bmw driver (I love bmws)
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The bmw drivers is a fat guy who drank beer all time and play casino 😂
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Based bugman brings bowling to Beijing
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Snapshots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Guangzhou_car_attack:
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64245246:
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Ok I'm Not saying i would ever do that, but lets be honest, Pedestrians can be a real pain in the ass. They think they are impervious to any kind of injury or death once theyre in the crosswalk, its like Homefree.!!
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The chinese are just defective as a race. Like you open the box, take your chink out and its immediately malfunctioning.
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