At the public prosecutor's table.
Su Bai's statement and counterquestion left Cai Wanqiang silent for several seconds.
From the legal perspective of law enforcement authority and the definition of law enforcement.
In this case, the enforcement authority of Urban Management Personnel referred to managing stalls and vendors.
It did not extend to other enforcement actions.
Those other actions included dismantling Zhou Li's stall, shoving Zhou Li, and similar conduct.
Cai Wanqiang understood this.
But his definition of the enforcement process referred to the process as a whole.
That overall process included actions such as penalizing Zhou Li and ordering him to pack up his stall as part of law enforcement.
During that process.
Zhou Li's verbal complaints and other actions constituted resistance to law enforcement.
The two men approached the matter from different angles, but in terms of the facts and an objective perspective.
Su Bai's account was more detailed, and examining those details further made it clear that shoving and similar actions were indeed not enforcement actions by Urban Management Personnel.
Cai Wanqiang also knew perfectly well that he could not acknowledge in court that the shoving by Urban Management Personnel constituted law enforcement.
Because this was a public trial, and this was the Northern Capital. If something like this happened even in the Northern Capital.
Then the judicial system would be placed in a very unfavorable position in public opinion.
Therefore, regarding Su Bai's question about whether He Ping and the others' jurisdiction could be taken to mean that they had the right to shove and beat Zhou Li.
Cai Wanqiang certainly needed to deny that.
Otherwise... if this trial spread online and caused a major public outcry, it would put enormous pressure on the judiciary.
After organizing his thoughts, Cai Wanqiang began his statement:
"We deny this