Beating death of Chinese Wei prompts outrage . 1,000 Chinese blogger writes : `` City inspectors are worse than the mafia '' Some journalists and bloggers have even compared Wei 's fatal beating to the Rodney King case , when the Los Angeles police repeatedly clubbed him . City inspectors in China act as auxiliary support to police . Wei Wenhua reportedly died at hands of inspectors January 7 .
Beating death of Chinese Wei prompts outrage . 1,000 Chinese blogger writes : `` City inspectors are worse than the mafia '' City inspectors in China act as auxiliary support to police . Wei Wenhua reportedly died at hands of inspectors January 7 .