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A young girl of school age was just cornered by riot police & proceeded to run away, before being viciously wrestled to the ground, kicked & pinned down by several police officers.
I wish I could say this isn’t normal in Hong Kong today, but it is.
Vid: HKUST student reporters
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More horrifying video emerging on Telegram of the pregnant woman who was pushed to the ground by the HK Police in Mong Kok tonight. The man in black trying to protect her is her husband. Excruciating just to watch.
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Grainy photos are starting to emerge on Telegram purporting to show 19-year-old Tony Chung (鍾翰林), former convenor of HK pro-democracy group @studentlocalism being arrested by state security agents (de facto secret police) on suspicion of inciting secession. 1984 is here & now.
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HK’s first mass march in months is starting to turn as police begin to lose restraint, firing pepper balls at the feet of journalists. The day has been largely incident-free so far, with a few dozen arrested. Vid: Telegram.
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HK riot police officers just charged through the crowd & wrestled a man to the ground on Jardine Street, CWB. One of the officers grabs his neck during the take-down followed by other officers trampling on him.
Normal service has resumed. Vid: HSUSU
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In CWB a small crowd of people were judged to have violated the national security law by using vulgar language toward police. Riot police used pepper spray at point blank range on people who were pinned up against a wall, on the ground & already in custody. Vid: CBC
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The Hong Kong Police have issued a statement (see below) claiming this 12 year old girl buying crayons “fled immediately”, “looked suspicious”, & that the officers who viciously tackled, kicked & pinned her down used “the minimum force necessary”.
Watch & decide for yourself:
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Per @appledaily_hk, the girl in this video is 12 years old, & was on her way to buy crayons with her brother when she was viciously wrestled to the ground, kicked & pinned down by riot police. Their injuries are currently being examined.
Hong Kong, 2020.
https://t.co/YnQRcMFg0U
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Further to the 2 young girls in school uniform being arrested by HK riot police earlier, video has emerged from the same incident of a boy, also in school uniform, having his head grappled & being shoved into the van.
These children constitute no threat & are already in custody.
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Horrifying photo shows a journalist being targeted by a HKPF water cannon in CWB. There are no protestors in their immediate vicinity, showing the HK Police's total contempt for the press. Pic: PolyUSU ('金魚').
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Another view of the same incident, in which undercover police disguised as protestors drag a demonstrator by the legs, as other officers pepper spray a crowd of journalists. Plainclothes HK police officers regularly arrest protestors but rarely with this brutality. Vid: Telegram. twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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Breaking: U.S. Dept of the Treasury announces sanctions against HK & Chinese government officials including Chief Executive Carrie Lam, HK Police chief Chris Tang & 🇨🇳 Liaison Office Director Luo Huining, citing the National Security Law & HR violations.
treasury.gov/resource-cente… twitter.com/SecPompeo/stat…
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Thoroughly unsurprising to see one of the senior British officers in the Hong Kong Police at the centre of horrific acts of police brutality today as Superintendent John Carroll was seen commanding police raptors & liaison officers in Kowloon. These men must be held to account. twitter.com/JackHHazlewood…
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The arrest of 12 HKers fleeing by boat to Taiwan might have huge consequences for others charged under the National Security Law. It could be used to deny bail in future to ppl arrested under the NSL (granted in all but one case so far) on the pretext others attempted to flee.
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Riot police pressed a man (apparently a bystander) against a tram stop and pulled at his clothes at the protest in central before arresting him. HK police marking the first anniversary of the protests as you would expect. Vid: HSUSU
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It’s possible this video of the HK Police taking aim at a journalist with their water cannon will become one of the defining scenes of the #HongKongProtests.
The reporter was standing alone with no protestors nearby or even visible, yet the police aimed directly for their head.
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Breaking: Pro-democracy candidates just received notice en masse that they’ve been disqualified from Sep’s LegCo election. Said to incl. Ventus Lau, Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen, Fergus Leung, Cheng Kam-mun & Kenneth Leung. Election expected to be suspended for 1 year imminently.
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Horrendous photos emerging of pro-democracy legislator Roy Kwong (鄺俊宇) being brutally wrestled to the ground & arrested by riot police in Mong Kok. Just one of a spate of horrific incidents of police brutality to take place tonight on the streets of Hong Kong. Pics: HKgolden
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Shocking dispatch by a HK Doctor:
“The HK police stormed hospitals where protesters are receiving medical treatment to make arrests, irrespective of the medical state of their targets [...] police have intimidated, attacked & even arrested my colleagues”. independent.co.uk/voices/hong-ko…
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In Pacific Place, two undercover police officers just aimed pepper spray at journalists & bystanders & threatened them when their identity was discovered, & continued as they left swiftly. Shows how the press & the public are treated with contempt by the HK Police. Vid: 凝政媒體
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Bad week for Hong Kong's premier white boy cop Rupert Dover. 壹週刊/Next Mag's revealed he runs a business on the side, built an illegal structure on govt land he shouldn't even be living on, *AND* rented it out on Airbnb. He took refuge from reporters in a public toilet. Thread:
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Riot police have fired pepper-balls at shoppers, bystanders & journalists during a dispersal operation in MOKO mall in Mong Kok. HK-wide there have been hundreds of stop & searches & fines issued tonight. This is how Mother's Day is celebrated in Hong Kong. Vid: STMHK/Telegram.
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BREAKING: HK01 reports the NPC in Beijing will tonight propose a ‘Hong Kong version of the national security law’. Stresses this is *not* Article 23, but it may well be A23 in all but name. HK waiting on tenterhooks as the final nail in the coffin beckons.
bit.ly/2LJi5AI
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This photo by a @StandNewsHK (立場) reporter is being extremely widely circulated - it shows the aftermath of a person being hit with a pepperball by riot police. SN report states the wound was so deep that bone was visible & police only allowed a single medic to give first aid.
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BREAKING: Chinese government authorities have confirmed in a press conference in Beijing they will discuss railroading through Article 23-like proposals for national security legislation in HK, confirming many pro-democracy activists' worst fears. Here's what it'll mean. Thread:
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