Not all urban patrol officers thugs

A VIDEO SHOWING A 3-YEAR-OLD BOY holding a metal pipe and threatening some urban patrol officers who were "bullying" his grandmother, a street vendor, recently went viral on the internet. Rednet.cn commented on Friday:

The disputes between urban patrol officers and street vendors are no secret in many Chinese cities, but the recent one involving a 3-year-old "fighter" is a bit different. Some have attributed his anger toward the officers as the result of their "aggressive" law enforcement. However, should the patrol officers not enforce the law just because the youngster is trying to defend his grandmother's rule-breaking?

In a country with the rule of law, any violation of the law should be punished regardless of who commits it. It would undermine the rule of law if some wrongdoers were able to hide behind children to evade their due punishments.