Raid!
There was a raid on a gambling den in my housing complex last night!  I heard in the end almost thirty people were arrested, but four got away.  This one guy got the crap beaten out of him by the police.  It was because he resisted arrest.  First the guy tried fighting, then he ran, followed by two plainclothes policeman waving billy clubs and telling him to stop, but he ran right to a dead end, where he refused to sit down when the told him to.  If I were faced with two 6 foot tall plus policemen with weapons and they told me to sit down, I think I might do it.  They ended up whacking him over the head a few times, and then again whenever he got up again and refused to sit.  After five or ten minutes the took him away with all this blood streaming down his forehead. 
At first with all the chaos and people and screaming, which was the way it started out, it was unclear what was going on, and the dog man told me it was just a fight.¬† At first, when I saw the cops chasing the guy, I yelled at them to stop fighting, because I didn’t know what was going on.¬† I thought they were collecting a gambling debt or fighting over women or something.¬† I think in China, it’s hard to know if someone is getting arrested or what is going on because so many operations are handled by plainclothes policemen.¬† Once I was like, “Hey, that guy is getting beaten up,” and a taxi driver told me that the person was actually being arrested.¬† From watching some Chinese police documentaries, now I know that pickpocketing, street fraud (like against the elderly) and gambling are often dealt with by plainclothesmen.¬† Oftentimes they track and film the perpetrator until they have enough evidence, then bust the person, jumping out of a fake taxi that is really a police car, or an unmarked car.¬† In the case by my house, they did use the fake taxi technique and the unmarked car technique at the same time, because I guess they needed so many cops.¬† I didn’t see any real police vehicles for like a half an hour, until everything was under control and they were ready to take everybody away.¬†