When four Chinese civil servants in a restaurant got in a drunken argument with the boss over how to pay the bill, they smashed up his shop and began to beat him.
Li Jinming, the owner, was hit in the face and abdomen before collapsing in the April 16 assault. An ambulance rushed to the scene, but the 60-year-old was already dead.
It turns out that Li was a Communist Party secretary and deputy to the local People’s Congress in Nanzhao County, Henan Province.
The four assailants worked in the local agricultural and judicial bureaus, a land planning institute, and the county procuratorate, reported Caixin, a publication based in Beijing.
A press conference regarding the incident in Henan Province on April 18. via Henan Economics Daily
