EDITORIAL: Proportionality in policing
An incident on Thursday last week between a police officer and a woman walking in the area behind Jhongli Railway Station in Taoyuan has drawn public attention to proportionality in policing.
The incident ended with a Jhongli Police Precinct officer, surnamed Yeh (葉), wrestling the screaming woman, Chan Hui-ling (詹慧玲), to the sidewalk in a judo maneuver, pressing her face to the ground, and then detaining her for nine hours in the police station.
Chan, a music teacher, had refused to produce her identification card on Yeh’s request after he approached her to do a spot check. The situation quickly deteriorated when Yeh was affronted by an insult that Chan allegedly used against him.
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By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday published the public venues that one of the three new local cases of COVID-19 had visited on Tuesday and Wednesday last week.
Case No. 1,112 is a Taiwanese man in his 70s and is the younger brother of an earlier confirmed case a man in his 70s and his wife, who were both diagnosed with COVID-19 during quarantine after returning from Canada earlier this month.
The Taoyuan District Prosecutors’ Office on Saturday said it had opened an investigation into the arrest on Thursday of a woman who refused to answer a police officer’s questions after seemingly being stopped without cause.
The office said in a news release that, at the request of police, it on Thursday interrogated music teacher Chan Hui-ling (詹慧玲) on suspicion of obstructing a public official during an encounter in Taoyuan’s Jhongli District (中壢).
The office said the case is being reviewed and asked the public to be patient until the investigation is concluded.
The incident has drawn considerable attention in Taiwan,