Police Begin Investigation into Blind Post Mocking Namtaeryeong Protesters as "Cockroaches"

Hate Speech Targeting Namtaeryeong Protesters Posted on Police Blind
Police Launch Internal Investigation

Last weekend, the police launched an investigation after a post insulting participants of the Namtaeryeong protest, written under the police's name, was uploaded to the anonymous workplace community 'Blind'.

Hateful Posts Directed at Namtaeryeong Protesters. National Police Agency Blind Report

The Cyber Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 26th that on the 24th, they began a preliminary investigation into the authors of posts and comments on Blind who referred to women in their 20s and 30s attending the Namtaeryeong protest as "gyeonmin" (a derogatory term) and "cockroaches".

The police are currently tracking down the authors who left hateful expressions such as "I want to catch and beat those gyeonmin" and "In the past, they would have been beaten and crawled on the ground".

Previously, the National Assembly's Public Administration and Security Committee criticized the surge of hateful expressions condemning the Namtaeryeong protest participants on the Police Agency's Blind platform. Lee Ho-young, the acting commissioner of the Police Agency, stated, "We will take responsibility and thoroughly investigate. If it is a police officer, they will definitely be punished."

On the 21st and 22nd, at Namtaeryeong Hill in Seocho-gu, the National Peasants' Federation (Jeonnong), who attempted to enter Seoul for a "tractor protest" demanding the arrest of President Yoon Seok-yeol, engaged in an overnight standoff with the police for 28 hours.

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