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    Hong Kong protests: High Court test for warrants that let police search phones
    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...nts-let-police


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    Hong Kong police consider arming officers with electroshock devices and net guns amid protests
    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...s-electroshock


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    Man arrested after taking picture of Hong Kong police in restaurant, with councillor decrying incident as ‘arbitrary arrest’
    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...-police-camera

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom007:
    Hong Kong police consider arming officers with electroshock devices and net guns amid protests
    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...s-electroshock
    I’m for, but only if it means replacing handguns with tasers on crowd control missions. Would avoid situations where blood thirsty officers grapple an unarmed protester while shooting another one.

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    (tweet)

    A 19-year-old has been jailed for possessing offensive weapons with intent.

    During routine home inspection in a Yuen Long housing estate undercover "raptor" tactical unit discovered the man possessing lethal sticks disguised as wooden door frame which he intended to fashion into deadly weapons to fend off patriotic triads roaming the area if they attempted to enter his family's flat.

    The court found no reason to believe the man's explanation that it was simply a door frame.


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    Yes, it is parody I just made up but how many thought it within the realms of possibility after everything the popo and courts have done to Hongkongers in real life already? How long before this scenario actually happens?

    The twitter link refers to another arrest just in the news which inspired the parody and the photo is related to another story, both courtesy of HongkongFP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mefisto:
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    (image of the crime scene)





    Yes, it is parody I just made up but how many thought it within the realms of possibility after everything the popo and courts have done to Hongkongers in real life already? How long before this scenario actually happens?

    The twitter link refers to another arrest just in the news which inspired the parody and the photo is related to another story, both courtesy of HongkongFP.
    So two months after the Yuen Long attack where armed triads openly roamed the street unmolested, a citizen carrying a stick for self-defence was arrested and prosecuted? Wow, I’m highly comforted there’s rule of law.

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    Hong Kong protests: police seize powerful pipe bomb and arrest 10 members of radical anti-government group in two-day operation
    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...-pipe-bomb-and

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    "Lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting visited a protester in custody yesterday who needs to leave for regular medical check-ups

    She said the CSD officers normally use handcuffs only for these journeys, but after discovering she was a protester, they added iron chains around her waist and legs"

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