# Vietnamese worker shot nine times :facebook: **URL:** \ **Category:** Living in Taiwan\ **Tags:** hsinchu, vietnam, incident\ **Created:** [September 17, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/vietnamese-worker-shot-nine-times/163754 "2017-09-17T22:26:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Jack](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/charlie_jack/32/246096_2.png) [@Charlie\_Jack](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Charlie_Jack)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/vietnamese-worker-shot-nine-times/163754/22 "2017-09-19T11:57:23Z")
Apologies for the length, thought I’d add a little context but sort of got carried away. 🙂 About eighteen months ago tommy525 started a thread about police shooting an overstayed foreign worker: > [@Taiwan shoots it's overstayed](http://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-shoots-its-overstayed/89197): > > [taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/ … 2003641018](http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/03/07/2003641018) Don’t give Trump any ideas. He would sanction shooting of overstayed illegals too. Cept he would have to have millions of them shot. I think shooting this guy was very wrong. Guns shouldn’t be used on people who are not armed. He was an overstayed illegal and tried to get away by pushing a cop. The Taiwanese cops couldn’t catch him on foot so decided to shoot him. Firing as many as five shots. I don’t think this is the proper way. Over stayed … According to the _Taipei Times_ article linked in that post, the police said that they shot the man after he “pushed a police officer and attempted to flee a roadside inspection. . . .” > **[Vietnamese man shot by police in Taipei after fleeing - Taipei Times](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/03/07/2003641018)** > > Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan Here are a couple of Chinese-language news videos about it ( **both are NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK** :nsfw:): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EXhHx6yAkw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EXhHx6yAkw) :nsfw: [http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/headline/20160307/37097446/](http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/headline/20160307/37097446/) There was a thread about four years ago that dealt, among other things, with the issue of when it is appropriate for the police to use firearms. I posted some government information about that issue, some of it Chinese and some of it in English: > [@Taiwan Police Shoot Foreigner](http://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-police-shoot-foreigner/79477/166): > > There has been some discussion of the circumstances under which the police here are justified in the use of deadly force. The title of the law governing the use of weapons by the police has been translated in various ways. For convenience’s sake, I’ll give it a title I saw on the Ministry of the Interior’s website, “The Statute Governing Use of Arms by the Police.” This appears to be the text of the part of that law which appears to be pertinent to this discussion, namely Article 4 (from the … I’d better not try to read the Chinese part of the above-linked post, but anyway, I think that at least in some circumstances, the police here seem to have fairly broad permission to use firearms. About eleven years ago there was a thread about a shooting that came at the end of a fairly lengthy, apparently mostly low-speed chase that seems to have begun in Wanhua in Taipei and ended in Tucheng, in what was then Taipei County (now New Taipei City). In that thread there was some discussion of police conduct, and there was also a poll: > [@Junkie shot dead in car pursuit. Police went too far?](http://tw.forumosa.com/t/junkie-shot-dead-in-car-pursuit-police-went-too-far/31802/9): > > China Post article: Police shoot ex-convict to death in Tucheng An ex-convict refusing to be stopped by police for questioning was shot to death near Tucheng yesterday. Tucheng is a city some five miles south of Taipei. Chung Chang-hai, 42, of Tucheng, was dead on arrival at the Hoping Municipal Hospital in Taipei. Captain Hsueh Ching-lien, head of the Wanhua Police Precinct, [quote]said an internal investigation is under way to find out if the shooting was unnecessary[/quote]. Altogether 5… A post in the thread quotes this _Taipei Times_ article: > **[Hail of lead ends car chase - Taipei Times](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2006/09/18/2003328107)** > > Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan This video **_appears_** to contain at least one or more segments of the chase (I _ **hope** _ this is the right video), and is **NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK** :nsfw:: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LCa_ZUJGbyg/hqdefault.jpg "由一個笨警追一個笨賊開始.......") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCa_ZUJGbyg) --- _[View the full topic](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/vietnamese-worker-shot-nine-times/163754)._