“Why not let Yang Peiyi, perform?“ asked Flushing resident Mr. Li. ”It doesn’t matter that she isn’t pretty.”

On August 4, 2008, at about 3:00 p.m., Zhang Derong and Hu Zehua, New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) reporters and Falun Gong practitioners, were attacked by Li Wen and Li Huahong in Flushing.