News of a journalist being assaulted by local police officers in the city of Bijie in southwestern China's Guizhou province went viral and set off a public outcry as an example of obstruction of legal press oversight. News circulated online May 30 that a reporter from China's Jimu News was assaulted and injured by three unidentified assailants while reporting on a deadly incident in Bijie. The assailants turned out to be local police officers, according to a report released Thursday by local authorities.

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