As the news of the Kaohsiung riot broke, a handful of "Taiwan Independence" elements in the United States disseminated lies and misrepresented the arrest of Chiu Sheng-hsiung and Yao Kuo-chien, as an abuse of human rights by the authorities.
面對國家安全、社會秩序、法律尊嚴受到的挑戰，面對民意沸騰、群情激忿，一致對行兇者與主使者依法加以嚴懲的要求，治安當局繼姚嘉文等十四人之後，也在取得了立法院院會無異議通過之後，逮捕了黃信介。