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    Quote Originally Posted by kimwy66:
    You can't tell anything from that video. The other video taken from above clearly shows him being hit by a brick thrown by a person dressed in black who arrives in the shot with protesters. I will leave it to your conscience as to which side you wish to attribute the throwers allegiance lying'.

    https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...brick-12091230
    I can see clearly a woman walks over picks up something and throws it followed by the old guy collapsing. Of course it's not 100% clear what is thrown.
    On the other hand why does none of the pro gov folks run over and check on the poor guy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by William06:
    I can see clearly a woman walks over picks up something and throws it followed by the old guy collapsing. Of course it's not 100% clear what is thrown.
    On the other hand why does none of the pro gov folks run over and check on the poor guy?
    You need to watch the video - I've linked the YT version here, between 23 seconds and 25 seconds. watching the two figures I have circled. You can quite clearly see the man in the black circle run in from the top right with a brick, throw it and the bricks hits the elderly man in the orange. Nothing to do with the woman, the brick comes from in front.

    Lets call them road clearing rather than pro-gov because sans a big label saying 'Pro Gov'on their tshirts nobody knows their political thoughts and general consensus is they wanted to clear the road which we have evidence of. Perhaps they are not checking his condition in the SECONDS after he hits the road because people are throwing bricks/having bricks thrown at them? Peripheral vision grabbing your attention is unlikely in that scenario. The protesters can clearly see it though because they were facing him, hence why they run away perhaps?



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

    So the advice remains, beware of anyone holding a brick without due care and attention to the injuries it can cause, regardless of political motivations or liklihood to notice you have been hit in the seconds after.

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    The correct advice would be not to walk between two sides hurling bricks at each other

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    Quote Originally Posted by MatthieuTofu:
    The correct advice would be not to walk between two sides hurling bricks at each other
    The correct advice would be to not throw bricks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kimwy66:
    The correct advice would be to not throw bricks.
    Yes but this is a hitchhiker's guide. I'd suppose the hitchhiker is not throwing bricks in the first place
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    One person illegal assembly...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idB8FqlYMqw

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    Quote Originally Posted by balancedequatio:
    One person illegal assembly...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idB8FqlYMqw
    I have to watch that movie again. One of my all time favorites.

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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Throwing bricks at people without formal protection must be condemned be it the Police throwing bricks, Pro-government or the protesters.

    Who started this brick throwing where the photographer got hit?
    https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/11/ar...th-protesters/

    The victim was struck during what, from a video, appears to have been an attack initiated by the dead man’s peers against a group of protesters in Hong Kong.
    The video uploaded by Stanley Ng Chau-pei, President of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions and a pro-Beijing politician, shows a group of people with long sticks approaching protesters near the North District Town Hall in Sheung Shui on Wednesday
    While a blue-shirted person started attacking the protesters with a stick, his peers threw bricks at the protesters, who protected themselves with umbrellas.
    Can’t see much myself from the video, but is that inaccurate?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AsianXpat0:
    https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/11/ar...th-protesters/

    Can’t see much myself from the video, but is that inaccurate?
    Another one for the 'risk of vigilantes'?
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