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At least in tiananmen square the Tank tried to avoid the protestor
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UK_cable_on_Tiananmen_Square_...

"5. FACT. ON ARRIVAL AT TIANANMEN TROOPS FROM SMR HAD SEPARATED STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS. STUDENTS UNDERSTOOD THEY WERE GIVEN ONE HOUR TO LEAVE SQUARE BUT AFTER FIVE MINUTES APCS ATTACKED. STUDENTS LINKED ARMS BUT WERE MOWN DOWN INCLUDING SOLDIERS. APCS THEN RAN OVER BODIES TIME AND TIME AGAIN TO MAKE QUOTE PIE UNQUOTE AND REMAINS COLLECTED BY BULLDOZER. REMAINS INCINERATED AND THEN HOSED DOWN DRAINS."

Tank Man is believed to be unharmed though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

You're right. I did not mean to minimize the horrible events of Tianamen square
And with "qualified" near-absolute immunity (since grand juries side with police almost all of the time), they can legally steal and destroy property of people and punch, choke, taze, shoot, and run-over them with impunity.

The police are a lawless mafia serving a feudal, totalitarian, klepto-plutocratic apartheid with prison plantations.