PHOTO EVIDENCE: About 10 protesters blasted the government for its inaction in finding the police officers who were accused of excessive violence in 2014
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 25, 2018 – Page 3
By: Su Fang-ho and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Protesters early yesterday gathered outside the National Police Agency headquarters in
A mask painted with the slogan “consciousness swallowed by a cat” is left outside the Executive Yuan and National Police Agency buildings early yesterday to protest the government’s failure to identify police officers who they say used excessive force on Sunflower movement protesters in 2014. Photo: Provided by a reader
Taipei, spraying paint on a wall and demanding justice for police violence during the 2014 Sunflower movement. One person was arrested at the scene.
“Fourth anniversary of March 23,” protesters wrote on one of the building’s outer walls, referring to the day in 2014 when students and others protesting a controversial cross-strait service trade agreement attempted to occupy the Executive Yuan after occupying the Legislative Yuan.
Riot police at the time used excessive force against non-violent protesters, the protesters said.
Photographs taken on March 24, 2014, when riot police arrived at the Executive Yuan to evict protesters at about 5am, clearly show police beating protesters with batons, “splitting their heads open” and firing on others with water cannons, one protester said.
The images, which were published in international media, show police using excessive force, but the government says that the perpetrators cannot be found, they said.
About 10 people were involved in the painting yesterday, some of whom were also involved in the attempted occupation four years ago, the protester said. [FULL STORY]
