Man Jailed For Whistling At Police In Hong Kong After Officer Complains He Lost Hearing For 3 Seconds

A builder who whistled in the face of police officers during a Hong Kong protest march was today jailed for six weeks. Ki Chun-kei insisted that the whistling was nothing more than drunken antics, and claimed he did not know the policemen were so close when he did it.


But one of the officers claimed he had become deaf for three seconds thanks to the whistling, leading the judge to impose a prison sentence on the demonstrator.

Ki, 50, was participating in an annual demonstration on July 1 last year to mark the anniversary of Hong Kong being handed over to China by the UK, the South China Morning Post reported.

He was caught on camera approaching police and whistling at them, apparently without immediate provocation.

 

One officer said Ki was less than a foot away from his ear when he whistled sharply, leaving him unable to hear for two or three seconds.

The defendant's lawyer Pauline Leung Po-lam said that he had not meant to harm the policemen, and argued that 'a short ringing in their ears' did not amount to assault.

But magistrate Ho Wai-yang disagreed, pointing out that the officers were clearly identifiable thanks to their uniforms, and characterised the incident as an 'illegal use of force'. 







Source: Daily Mail