Beijing has announced a compensation of 897,000 Yuan (U.S. $146,000) for the family of the vendor, who was brutally beaten to death by urban management officials in the province of Hunan.
This compensation comes in the wake of clashes between the public and riot police sparked by the death and to avoid further clashes in the country.
The compensation award announcement was made soon after images of residents injured in the clashes went viral on social networks in the country.
A niece of the victim Huang told Radio Free Asia that Deng's death had caused "popular anger."
"A lot of the people at the scene were saying that they wouldn't sleep that night, and would stay up in vigil for us," said the niece describing the scene where the 56-year-old vendor, Deng Zhengjia, was beaten to death.
"The government didn't come out and deal with this face-to-face, but just sent in hundreds of police officers, robotically,"
"I got hit by a baton a number of times on my left arm, and it's all swollen up," said the niece.
The death of the vendor last week made people wonder if the incident could ignite a China's very own Jasmine Revolutionary.
A beating of a university student by chengguan (urban police) in the central city of Zhengzhou in 2008 had sparked massive protests involving tens of thousands of people.
Last May, Chinese riot police in Sichuan province were forced to withdraw after they were overwhelmed in clashes with an angry public protesting against the beating of a street vendor by the urban management officials.
A large number of civil rights groups in the country are trying to end the authority of chengguan.
"We will be making freedom-of-information requests for the relevant information," said Guangzhou-based rights lawyer, Sui Muqing.
"This is a form of so-called law enforcement that, in the interests of effectiveness, tramples on justice and fairness," said Sui.
