“As a Chinese, How Can You Treat the Chinese Communist Party Like This?”
Chinese Woman Curses Falun Gong Practitioner Outside of Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles
Three persons allegedly intimidated or assaulted Falun Gong practitioners in Los Angeles (witness videos and photos are included below).
Three separate incidents of assault and intimidation against Falun Gong practitioners have taken place in Los Angeles within the past three months. These cases reveal a troubling pattern of harassment linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), taking place both at the Chinese Consulate and in public spaces.
June 9: Assault outside consulate
On June 9, around 11 a.m., outside the entrance of 500 Shatto Place—the building housing the Chinese Consulate’s Passport and Visa Office—Falun Gong practitioners were speaking with pedestrians about the CCP’s persecution of their faith. Their information table and banners present details about Falun Gong and the CCP’s human rights abuses. A Chinese woman suddenly confronted one practitioner, angrily accusing her of betraying the CCP. She shoved the practitioner three times, raising her hand as if she was about to strike the practitioner.
“As a Chinese, how can you treat the Chinese Communist Party like this?” the Chinese woman shouted in Mandarin at a Falun Gong practitioner.
When another practitioner began filming, the woman redirected her aggression, repeatedly lunging forward, threatening her, and demanding the video be deleted. The incident marked a troubling escalation from verbal harassment to physical assault targeting practitioners engaged in peaceful information-sharing.
Sept. 4: Banner seized
Less than three months later, on Sept. 4, another confrontation occurred at the same location. Without warning, an Asian man rushed forward, snatched a banner exposing the CCP’s staged “Tiananmen self-immolation,” and fled into the consulate building. “We were just standing peacefully as we always do, and suddenly he rushed at us and grabbed the banner,” recalled practitioner Liu Chuanyu.
The man dropped the banner after colliding with the building’s iron gate, allowing practitioners to recover it. Photographs taken captured the individual’s face as he frantically pressed elevator buttons inside the consulate’s visa office building. Police were called immediately.
Two officers from the Olympic Station of the Los Angeles Police Department entered the consulate’s third-floor visa office. After being shown the man’s photo, consulate staff admitted they knew him but did not clarify whether he was an employee. According to practitioners present, the officers instructed consulate staff to relay a warning: the man must not touch Falun Gong practitioners’ property again or he would face jail time.
Sept. 7: Harassment at Santa Monica
Three days later, on Sept. 7, harassment spread beyond the consulate grounds to one of California’s busiest tourist spots: Santa Monica Pier. A young Chinese woman followed practitioners as they handed out flyers about Falun Gong and the CCP’s human rights abuses. Suddenly, she snatched flyers from a practitioner, threw them to the ground, and shouted insults.
When tourists questioned the Chinese woman’s behavior, she repeated CCP propaganda and lied about Falun Gong.
Nearby tourists intervened, telling the woman her behavior was inappropriate. Practitioners also warned her that such actions are against U.S. law. Undeterred, she continued repeating CCP propaganda and slurs against Falun Gong. When she realized neither the tourists nor practitioners believed her claims, she left the scene.
Growing concern
The Falun Dafa Information Center has recorded at least 10 similar incidents since January, including six across the United States. In addition to the three Los Angeles cases, there have been two in the state of New York and one in the city of Philadelphia.
These incidents —two in Los Angeles directly involving the consulate and another in Finland involving a senior CCP official—highlight a consistent pattern of harassment, intimidation, and disruption aimed at silencing Falun Gong practitioners. Whether through physical threats, property damage, or propaganda-laced harassment, the tactics mirror Beijing’s campaign of transnational repression: exporting censorship, fear, and violence against critics beyond China’s borders.
In addition, as of Sept. 23, the Falun Dafa Information Center recorded at least 183 death threats sent to practitioners and their supporters, including 7 incidents in September alone.
One recent message submitted through the White House Contact Us form, impersonating the email from The Epoch Times on Sept. 6, threatened violence targeting the White House. The message stated in English,
”We are Falun Gong members, and we will soon be shooting at the White House! We will throw incendiary bombs and explosives! If anyone tries to stop us, we will open fire! … This is the consequence of your failure to help us address the Communist Party’s transnational repression!”
