Violent BBQ crackdown backfires
What's most important is that upon knowing that the UA had smashed someone's push stall, I believe that Chongqingers have seen it so often that it doesn't even strike them as unusual now; at the time I also didn't expect the incident to keep escalating to as large as it did. The UA don't just smash people's rice bowls [means of living], but their dinner tables too...not letting people eat, not even letting them earn a living...
From just after seven straight until midnight, the "upstairs" officials took their sweet time getting there, I really don't know what good they thought dawdling around would do....It was around eleven when I heard the first bang, and I thought the police had fired a warning shot, so I took out my camera; but then a flame shot out, then smoke, and the crowd went chaotic...you couldn't see anymore who was a cop and who was a civilian...