In November 2008, Lin Jiaxiang, an official with the Marine Affairs Bureau, allegedly followed an 11-year-old girl into a restaurant bathroom and grabbed her by the throat. A security camera shows the official admitting to her family that he touched the girl, but claiming that he was above the law because of his lofty government position. “Do you know who I am? … If you dare challenge me, just wait and see how I will deal with you,” he apparently warns. The subsequent public outcry through social media — including calls for his summary execution — saw Lin lose the job he was so proud of. However, staff at the Plum Garden Seafood Restaurant in Shenzhen were not so quick to condemn him. “It was a fight between rich people and officials,” one employee told the New York Times. “The official said something irritating to her parents, who are very rich.” Could the cyber witch hunt have been wrong?
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