"[6] (有本事你们告去，我爸是李刚; Yǒu běnshì nǐmen gào qù, wǒ bà shì Lǐ Gāng) After outrage erupted on Chinese internet forums, a doxing search revealed that Li Gang was the deputy director of the local public security bureau.
[7] Four days after the incident, an online poetry contest invited entrants to incorporate the sentence "My father is Li Gang" (我爸是李刚; Wǒ bà shì Lǐ Gāng) into classical Chinese poems.
[5][8] The phrase has since become a popular catchphrase and internet meme within China, frequently seen on various forums and message boards,[9] and in similar competitions using ad slogans and song lyrics, and used ironically in conversation by speakers trying to avoid responsibility.
[7][8][11] On November 1, Zhang Kai, the attorney for the relatives of Chen Xiaofeng, was abruptly asked to terminate his representation in the case, after the law firm was cautioned by the Beijing Bureau of Justice, according to a blog by Wang Keqin, an influential Chinese muckraking reporter, blogger and professor at Peking University.
That same day, Director Liu of Baoding Traffic Police Division and some clerks from Wangdu County proposed payments to the relatives of Chen Xiaofeng to settle the case.