On the eve of the Tiananmen Square Massacre anniversary, a taxi crashed into a barricade in the heavily guarded Tiananmen Square in Beijing, with suspicions that a police officer was hit and left in an unknown condition. The related video has sparked heated discussions overseas.
On social media platform X, a video with an unknown filming date began to circulate on the 28th, showing a car passing through Tiananmen Square in Beijing, specifically on Chang’an Avenue facing the Beijing Great Hall. Passengers in the car filmed a green and orange taxi crashing through multiple barricades at the scene, coming to a stop with severe damage to the front of the vehicle. Several police officers rushed towards the taxi, with one officer breaking the car window to inspect inside.
A person resembling a police officer was seen lying on the ground a few meters away from the front of the taxi, and when approached by other officers, the person showed no response. In the background of the video, a man is heard saying, “Look! The police officer is probably dead. The taxi driver just drove straight through.” A woman exclaimed, “Chang’an Avenue, oh my!”
The Beijing authorities have not reported any related incidents recently.
Coming just before the sensitive anniversary of “June 4th”, such events in Beijing, the political heart of the Chinese Communist Party, have attracted attention. The video circulating on the overseas platform X has garnered significant attention from netizens.
“With the speed of these unexpected events, last time it was a tricycle, now a taxi, next will it be a line of cars and a group of people?”
“Who is this martyr?”
“I guess from now on, except for themselves, any vehicles passing through Tiananmen and Xinhua gates will have to undergo security checks…”
“It seems like there will be another lockdown, the 3-year White Guard Revolution, it’s becoming harder to travel.”
Li Muyang, host of the program “News Focus”, told NTD, “This is the first time I’ve heard of a police officer being hit and killed in front of Tiananmen Square. Normally, there shouldn’t be any issues with traffic control in such places, and incidents of hitting someone shouldn’t happen, let alone hitting a police officer! We don’t know what happened beforehand, but it does raise suspicions – could the driver have intentionally crashed?”
Li Muyang continued, “I have no doubts about these incidents challenging the Communist regime. Why? Because Chinese people really can’t live anymore, and extremists are emerging all over the country every day. If people are not afraid of death, then what’s stopping them from challenging the Communist regime? The possibility of doing so to topple the Communist regime, to express anti-Communist and anti-Communist sentiments, is too high.”
Jie Lijian, Vice Chairman and CEO of the Chinese Democratic Party, believes that with the approach of June 4th, it is a particularly sensitive moment for the Chinese Communist Party. “This is definitely not a case of being drunk or an unintentional overreaction, it’s definitely intentional, akin to a planned action.” He believes that the Chinese Communist Party is now completely surrounded from all angles, reaching a very critical edge of a major crisis.