🇨🇳 Social media users have shared a video of a police car hitting a crowd with the claim it was filmed in Shanghai, as Chinese authorities mobilised to quash nationwide protests not seen in decades The clip was in fact filmed in Washington state in 2021
The eight-second clip appears to show a police car running into a crowd and driving away.A screenshot, taken on November 29, 2022, of the misleading post.
The post circulated as China mobilised its vast security apparatus to smother protests across the country, with frustration over heavy-handed Covid rules bubbling over after a fire in a locked down building in Urumqi in the northwestern Xinjiang region killed 10 people last week, AFPDemonstrators across China said Covid restrictions were to blame for hampering rescue efforts in Urumqi, claims the government swiftly denied.
China is the world's last major economy still wedded to a zero-Covid policy, which compels local governments to impose snap lockdowns and quarantine orders, and limit freedom of movement in response to minor outbreaks. Anger over the lockdowns has widened to calls for political change, with protesters holding up blank sheets of paper to symbolise the pervasive censorship to which the world's most populous country is subjected.
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