Hundreds of bank customers in central China were beaten and dispersed by plainclothes police, in the presence of uniformed officers, for protesting the freezing of their accounts in a regional bank that hadn’t provided a credible explanation for disallowing them to access their funds.
On May 23, a group of protesters rallied in front of the provincial government of Henan, shouting for free withdrawal of their deposits from Yuzhou Xin Min Sheng Village Bank, a regional lender in the city of Yuzhou. Footage circulating online shows a team of plainclothes police in black attacking persistent protesters in a sit-in to turn them away while uniformed police officers just watch the violent scene from a distance. Later, police, security guards, and plainclothes officers force protesters, who were begging and crying for mercy, into buses and took them away….