Chapter 272: Ruling it an exercise of law enforcement meant dividing people into ranks.
Lin Youping had asked about their status to see how the prosecution viewed the conduct of He Ping and the others in this case.
If it considered He Ping and the others to have been acting as law enforcement officers throughout the incident,
then their conduct did not befit law enforcement officers, nor did it comply with the relevant legal provisions.
The law had not granted them such authority.
What right did they have to do that?
This situation was akin to coercive enforcement.
Without special circumstances requiring compulsory enforcement, violence and similar measures could not be used to uphold the rule of law and the law itself.
These were restrictions the law imposed on certain situations to protect ordinary citizens.
In other words.
If law enforcement personnel could forcibly use violence to uphold the law and the legal system, what would happen if individuals held the power to interpret that authority?
The consequences would be extremely serious.
What would happen if the prosecution declared that He Ping and the others had been acting as law enforcement personnel?
If he identified them as acting in that capacity, then by the following day,
public opinion might very well tear the prosecution apart!
So what could he conclude?
He could only conclude that He Ping and the others had set aside their status as law enforcement officers at the time, violated the relevant regulations as ordinary individuals, and engaged in a fight with Zhou Li.
One could even say that He Ping and the others, as law enforcement personnel, had committed serious violations and gotten into a dispute with an ordinary citizen.
Faced with the presiding judge's question, Cai Wanqiang rubbed the space between his eyebrows. What