Police Officers’ Attitudes About Falun Gong Determine Their Fates

(Minghui.org) In 2006, a fellow practitioner was arrested by police while distributing copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party in a public place. Her home was later illegally searched, and the police took many of her belongings, including a printer. Since I knew several of the officers well, I decided to go to the police department and ask them to release her.

I first went to the captain of the police and asked him to release the fellow practitioner. He firmly shook his head and refused. With no other option, I thought it over and decided to visit him at home. When he opened the door, he was so frightened that he quickly shut it. Afterward, I wrote him a letter urging him to do the right thing. From then on, whenever he saw me, he would avoid me. Not long after this incident, his wife divorced him, and he remains alone to this day.

I then visited another friend, Jia, who was also a police officer, but I did not know exactly what position he held. Jia said, “You had the whole night—why didn’t you move those things out of her home?” He was referring to the printer and printing paper.

I replied, “I’ve never experienced anything like this before, so I didn’t know we should move them.”

Jia said, “These days, petty thieves and those involved in prostitution get released, but when it comes to you Falun Gong practitioners, no one dares to release you.”

Jia’s sister was there at the time, and she mockingly retorted, “Hmph, and you still practice Falun Gong!”

Jia replied, “What’s wrong with practicing Falun Gong? People have freedom of belief!”

I was touched by Jia’s kind words. Under pressure, the arrested practitioner had mentioned my name to the police. So after that incident, many people, including fellow practitioners, avoided me because they were afraid of being implicated. My husband, who did not practice Falun Gong, was so frightened that he left and stayed in his hometown for more than 40 days.

The police called my husband’s younger brother and asked whether he practiced Falun Gong. They did not dare ask him directly whether I practiced, but they frightened his brother’s family. His brother then came to my home to scold me and called me crazy.

Jia, the police officer who dared to say a few kind words, was later promoted to deputy director of the public security bureau in the provincial capital, even though he only had a high school education. He had a happy family, and his daughter was admitted to medical school.

There was another police officer, Yi, whom I knew. When I saw him one day and was about to say hello, he turned away and pretended not to see me. At the time, Yi was a section chief and considered himself superior to others. He behaved that way after the arrest incident because he was afraid of being implicated. I later heard Yi had cancer and spent a great deal of money on treatment. His family fell into financial hardship and, after exhausting their savings, he passed away while only in his sixties.

There was a police officer’s wife, Ding, who knew one of my relatives. My relative told me to stop distributing truth-clarification materials because Ding had seen me enter their building carrying a bag. Ding went to the stairwell and found copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party placed beside each apartment door. She collected them all, took them home, and burned them, saying she was afraid others would find out I had distributed them.

I said, “If she did not want to read the copy at her own door, I would have nothing to say. But why take the copies from other people’s doors? They deserved the opportunity to learn the truth.”

I found out that Ding later developed a strange illness. She could not stand up, yet hospital examinations could not identify the cause. She is now reportedly confined to a wheelchair and relies entirely on her husband.

Her husband once told another practitioner’s husband that he had seen that practitioner in contact with me, even though we only spoke briefly. I told the practitioner, “Don’t worry about him. Are we not even allowed to speak to each other?”

There was another police officer, Zhang, who worked at an out-of-town public security bureau. In 1999, when the persecution of Falun Dafa had just begun, Zhang was very active in confiscating Dafa books because he wanted to earn a promotion. His son was then diagnosed with autism shortly after entering middle school. Now in his early thirties, he is unable to provide for his own needs and relies entirely on his parents’ pensions for support.

I also had a friend, Wang, who possessed a strong sense of justice. When I heard the police were planning to search my home in 2006, I asked, “Those officers are coming to search my home. Would it be all right if I kept some things at your place for a while?”

She agreed, “I don’t believe they would dare come to my home.” She also went out with me to run errands and covered for me while I distributed materials. Her family had struggled financially; her husband’s income was low, and they had a daughter to support. But not long after Wang helped me, her daughter was admitted to college. Wang then started a small business, and life has gone smoothly for her family.

Li, a police station chief and one of my distant relatives, once reported a fellow practitioner after receiving a truth-clarification letter. He had several practitioners arrested, and two were illegally sentenced. Years earlier, I had written to him, urging him to treat Falun Dafa practitioners kindly. In 2021, after my mother, an elderly practitioner, and I were arrested for distributing materials, my husband asked Li for help, but he refused. Recently, Li lost his position as police chief and was demoted to the rank of an ordinary officer.

These were all people I knew well. I sincerely hope that police officers and law enforcement personnel who are still helping the Party persecute Falun Dafa and its practitioners will pause and think about their actions. For your own sake and your family’s, please correct your attitude toward Falun Dafa. That is the true way to bring blessings to yourself.