Police react to message ''China's twitter'' about street chaos

In China, weibo.com is a website like twitter in US.

On August 17, A weibo user tweet a message involving a uniformed officer beating an elderly woman on a street in Jinan city.
The message from the netizen Liu about the street chaos, posted at 18:32, was soon forwarded many times on weibo.com.

The police in Jinan city reacted via its weibo page later at 20:15 by confirming that it was a female prison guard, not a police officer, involved in the case. She had stopped to fix her vehicle when the incident occurred. She has been detained and interrogated at the police station.

Eleven minutes later, another message from the local police reiterated that the police are taking the case seriously.

At 20:26, Liu said in another post that it was a man beating the elderly woman and he has been taken away by police.

At 22:21, the police went on tweeting: “The female prison guard surnamed Lin quarreled with the elderly couple as she fixed her vehicle, and she sent her husband, a doctor at a hospital, to beat the elderly woman.”

According to the report, the injured woman was rushed to the hospital. The police are further investigating the case.

Shen Yang, a professor at Wuhan University, said that this was a good example of police reacting to tweeted news.