Is This Guy the Chinese Version of Pepper Spraying Cop?

China might have found its answer to Lt. John Pike.

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In the heyday of the Occupy movement last year, some Chinese Internet users dismissed as amateurish their U.S. counterparts’ efforts to satirize Lt. Pike, the University of California, Davis police officer who became known across the Internet as Pepper Spraying Cop after blasting a group of seated protesters in the face with a can of pepper spray.

But in the wake of protests that turned violent last week in Shifang, Sichuan, China’s online jesters have adopted similar tactics in mocking one overzealous riot cop whose well-documented assault on protestors has turned him into a symbol of government brutality.

In a sequence of photos that spread around Sina Corp.’s Weibo microblogging service shortly after the protests broke out earlier this month, the policeman, whose girth matches that of the memorably paunchy Pepper Spraying Cop, is first seen in a line of riot police, pointing with his truncheon and looking disgruntled.

Pictures then show him charging, baton raised high, at a group of protestors who have their backs to him and are seemingly unaware of his brave assault. In the final photographs, he scatters the protestors and knocks over a woman before being joined by other police behind him.

The solo blitz earned the policeman, whom Chinese Internet users identified as Liu Bo, no shortage of criticism. It also fed China’s meme machine, prompting the country’s microbloggers to paste the most recognizable image of Mr. Liu, head ducked as he dramatically charges forward, into a whole variety of scenes.

The meme, which has been spreading over the past few days under the tagline “Liu Bo is very busy,” show the corpulent comrade interrupting a professional football match, chasing Tom Cruise in the newest Mission Impossible film, and — a house favorite — closing in on 2004 Olympic gold-medal winning hurdler Liu Xiang (who looks genuinely terrified).

Comments defending Mr. Liu (the cop, not the hurdler) were hard to find, with users mostly split between open hostility and wry appraisals.

“Trash, a civil war hero,” wrote one commenter posting under the handle My Pocket Has A Lollipop.

Another with the screen name Laizhebujue was more dry: “The days of promotions [for Mr. Liu] aren’t far away.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/07/09/is-this-guy-the-chinese-version-of-pepper-spraying-cop/

Is This Guy the Chinese Version of Pepper Spraying Cop?

Is This Guy the Chinese Version of Pepper Spraying Cop?

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