On the contrary. If you saw the news then you would see that there was a threat to the safety of officers. These were traffic cops who were outnumbered and being beaten with sticks and pelted with bricks by a savage mob.Original Post Deleted
On the contrary. If you saw the news then you would see that there was a threat to the safety of officers. These were traffic cops who were outnumbered and being beaten with sticks and pelted with bricks by a savage mob.Original Post Deleted
i don't want to excuse the protesters but if you work in the police (traffic warden or whatever) for a repressive regime, then you have to understand that you are seen by the people as the regime itself. in the same way as the protesters have lost their innocence, the HK police has lost their innocence too (unfortunately)
My take:
* hawkers - once a year tradition to sell stuff on the streets - should be allowed, there is bugger all else to do over CNY and the hygiene threat is minimal
* protesters' behaviour - awful - throwing paving stones, lighting fires - completely unacceptable
* police behaviour - awful, firing a gun in a crowded area without a clear threat to life? fire that fool (won't happen)
* relationship to "umbrella revolution" - practically nil - biggest similarity is highlighting of the growing rift between HK Gov and the people of HK
Slowly, but surely, the government is destroying what made Hong Kong interesting - HK by 2047 will be Shenzhen-lite.
I am only aware of this instance of journo beating by cops
【旺角衝突】已掛記者證 《明報》記者遭警員出棍打起腳踢 聲講明身分仍繼續打 (09:20) - 20160209 - 港聞 - 即時新聞 - 明報新聞網
Can you link to your sources of journalists being beaten by protesters?
And for the cops. During the umbrella movement zero rocks were thrown, but now lots of rocks were thrown. Why is that?
Agree.
The important thing to do now is to track down the people who rioted and look at the causes of the riot and adjust social policy in a quiet determined way.
Unfortunately the second step will not happen as the current administration appear clueless to tackling the causes of social in-equality.
It was on cable news. In this case, I think you are wrong in defending the rioters, cookie. Just because we have an unpopular CE does not mean we can just act with violent impunity here. This is not OC. This is not peaceful civil disobedience. This is premediated violence carefully planned and staged. I cannot and will not condone such actions.
Last edited by Cho-man; 09-02-2016 at 10:12 AM.