Hubei Protest Ends as Chinese Riot Police Storm Shishou City

The streets of Shishou city in China’s Hubei province have become center stage for a showdown between tens of thousands of protesters and riot police.

The city of Shishou is located in the southern part of China’s Hubei province.

Over the weekend, as many as 70,000 protesters took to the streets there. In this mobile phone footage from Saturday, June 20, riot police attempt to stop the protests.

Shishou residents were attempting to protect the body of a hotel chef named Tu Yuangao. They believe he was murdered because he knew too much about a local drug ring. Local authorities claimed it was a suicide, and sent police to get the body.

Residents blocked the hotel to guard evidence of the alleged murder. They say the cook was beaten to death and then thrown from a window to make it look like a suicide.

By Saturday night, the number of residents outside the hotel swelled to as many as 70,000, according to some reports.

So officials sent in an estimated ten thousand police for reinforcement.

By early Sunday morning, police were able to enter the hotel. After negotiations, the father handed over the body.

Shishou has been under a near media blackout since Saturday night. Internet access is blocked, so there is no video available from Sunday. State-run media report that the protests are over.

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(NTDTV)