Li Gang Incident
The Li Gang incident occurred on October 16, 2010 on the campus of Hebei University in the north Chinese city of Baoding .
The drunk 22-year-old Li Qiming ( 李启铭 ) drove over the campus at excessive speed in his Volkswagen Magotan and collided with two students in a narrow alley. One of them (Chen Xiaofeng 陈晓凤 , 20 years old) later died in hospital, the other (Zhang Jingjing 张晶晶 , 19 years old) got away with a broken leg. Li Qiming didn't care about them and kept driving to drop his girlfriend at the dormitory. On the way back, Li was stopped by security guards from the college. But instead of showing a sense of guilt, he reacted arrogantly and uttered the later notorious sentence:
「有 本事 你们 告 去 ， 我 爸爸 是 李刚。」
「Yǒu běnshì nǐmen gào qù, wǒ bàba shì Lǐ Gāng.」
“Accuse me if you can! My father is Li Gang. "
However, this statement triggered a real shit storm on the Internet . Four days later, blogger Piggy Feet Beta launched a poetry competition with the now popular phrase “My father is Li Gang”, which received more than 6,000 entries. Since then, the saying has been used as a metaphor for the abuse of power by the children of officials in China.
The Chinese authorities initially tried to suppress reports of the incident, but protests quickly spread on the Internet ( Renrou Sousuo ) that it could no longer be suppressed. As a result, Li Qiming was sentenced to six years of imprisonment and pain and suffering in January 2011. He excused himself crying in front of the camera.
Web links
- China's 'My father is Li Gang' case (YouTube video)
- Traffic accident: the son of a deputy chief of police kills a student
- Say of the week: My father is Li Gang.
Individual evidence
- ↑ China hit-and-run driver sentenced to six years in jail. In: BBC News. Retrieved January 30, 2011, November 2, 2015 (UK English).