Shooting of petitioner needs investigating

Where there is no transparency of information, there will always be an abundance of rumors.

This is exactly the case with the incident at a railway station in Qing'an county of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province on May 2, when a police officer shot dead a man in front the man's mother and daughter.

The earliest report online described the police officer as a hero who opened fire when the man tried to grab his handgun. But later reports tell a completely different version of incident, saying the man killed was a veteran petitioner, who was about to board a train on petition trip along with his mother and daughter. The police officer was trying to stop the man from embarking on his trip. The incomplete video clip spread online shows the man trying to evade an attack from the police officer.