Zain Dean conviction--fatal hit & run case PART IV

[Charlie_Jack]

I don’t know Mr. Dean. I don’t think I’ve ever met him. So in the past, when people have disparaged his character without going into detail (I’m referring to the kinds of characterizations that don’t seem to refer specifically to his escape, which I consider to be a separate issue), not having the specifics, I don’t know what to make of those kinds of remarks.

But to me, as a criminal matter–that is, as a matter that involves police and courts–the thing seems to have sort of got started off on the wrong foot, and stayed that way:

On leaving the court house, I realized now that it was already dark again, a whole day had passed. Outside a mob was waiting, comprised of media. They drove away the taxi we’d called for. People were punching me, trying to rip my face mask off, my jackets hood was ripped off, my cap was pulled off, my bag pulled from my body, I fell to the ground. It was very frightening, being attacked by a mob and being filmed at the same time. At one point, the goading was too much, and I took a jab at one of the media who were especially confident and aggressive. My wife replied, “stop, don’t, you’ll make it worse”, so I stopped. I saw her being pushed to the ground, she was isolated from me and being stomped and jabbed with an umbrella. (Later her body was found to be covered in bruises). I became aware of a older Taiwanese lady, not a media member trying to hit me, I let her, as I assumed it must have been one of the family members. We ran back into the court house. The policemen there stated they ‘could do nothing’. I told them I wouldn’t leave unless they could get us into a taxi. Initially they insisted they had not jurisdiction outside the courthouse (despite all being in police uniform), but eventually they agreed to go out with us. This time the crowd had abated, the media already had the footage they wanted, and most had left already. When we got into the taxi we were chased around until we managed to evade them.

A Personal Statement from Zain Dean

I don’t know if the scene depicted in the video linked below is the scene, or part of the scene described above, but in any case, for me it serves to illustrate the above account (I could not get the video to work using Chrome or Firefox, but it worked for me in Internet Explorer–in that browser, I played it by clicking the button that says “播放”):

http://dava.ncl.edu.tw/MetadataInfo.aspx?funtype=0&id=534624

A side note: If you can get the video to work, then about two thirds of the way through it, you should be able to see a still image of a person who does not look much like Zain Dean, or at least, not like the Zain Dean under discussion.