Chinese Diplomat accosted by Houston TX police
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This is indeed interesting. Perhaps the diplomat was busy or didn't notice the cops. My dad has been followed by a police car for two miles in a small town but we didn't notice him because we were listening to music and the police didn't sound the alarm. However I think that the Houston Policemen overreacted. No one should treat any 53 year olds like that! I think they'd have been in big trouble had they not known that they were arresting people in the Chinese consulate!
At time, this type of immunity to host country law kind of thingy is really just a big FxxK (sorry for the language). In Singapore, we have a recent case whereby a Romania diplomat drove and knock into some of our citizens, killing a few in Singapore road... and there really is nothing we can do about it.
Sorry for the blast off... it really get to my nerve on all these shit.
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Sorry for the blast off... it really get to my nerve on all these shit.
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Any follow up news on whether the diplomat will be tried for driving without a license plate?
I don't think the housten police could try the diplomat. He is immune to the law.
That probably wouldn't stop Mr. Hu from firing him though. This is a major smudge on the Chinese image. Wonder what the Chinese media is gonna make of this incident.
Still you've got to wonder what the diplomat did that caused the police to react like that. I really don't think that he deserved getting hurt unless he intentionally tried to out run the police when their lights are flashing.
The police are the ones that should be fired. Sounds like he entered the consulate and they thought he was entering his home or something, so they got all amped because now they have an excuse to treat someone roughly (he's "running away"), and the fact that he was injured seems that they did treat him roughly. Doing that to anyone over a licence plate for a car, let alone a foreign diplomat, is reprehensible.
Consulates tend to be pretty insubstantial. Oftentimes they're just a small office or a house.
The police is no doubt at the wrong on the mishandling of the suspect. However the diplomat is also at the wrong in the first place for breaking the law in the first place with the lack of a license plate or something and to add fuel to fire, he ignored lawful request for him to stop his vehicle, instead driving it into the consulate. This is something like, driving into a safehouse and thinking it was all over.