"This incident is a total misunderstanding. Our police officers never realized that they beat the wife of a senior leader. A strong wave of fists rained down on her for more than 16 minutes."
-The Communist Party chief of the district bureau of Hubei, China, explains the accidental assault on Chen Yulian which resulted in a concussion and brain damage. Yulian was attempting to visit her husband, a provincial official, at his workplace when she was confused for an average citizen petitioning for redress of grievances and set upon by six security officers.