On July 18, in Erjie Village, Dawa District, Panjin, Liaoning, government personnel went to the dock in the middle of the night to secretly take fishing boats stored by villagers, but were caught and stopped by the villagers. After daybreak, the local government switched from stealing to openly seizing, dispatching hundreds of police officers and government staff to forcibly tow the boats away from the village. During the confrontation, one villager questioned the police: “Are you the Communist Party or the Kuomintang, coming to rob people in the middle of the night?”

