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    Quote Originally Posted by mrgoodkat:
    More people than the government anticipated = obvious support for the protesters = makes government look bad = better cancel the march for some made up reason
    ya I know
    nothing new... but still give some reasonable time for people to disband jesus christ..

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    https://twitter.com/hkchrisla...23488188395521

    https://twitter.com/HongKongH...22825681301505

    Can’t help feeling that have only succeeded in escalating the situation in what was probably only going to be a peaceful march. Perhaps what they wanted for the headlines tomorrow.

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    Brutalising the public at large seems like a poor way to de-escalate tensions


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    Quote Originally Posted by MatthieuTofu:
    The Twitterverse has come to the universal conclusion that undercovers were behind the vandalism after alleged undercover officers tried to vandalise a shop but ran back to police lines at around 4pm.

    See post #34
    sounds about right. Popo tactics

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    Upside to today's mess: Less tourists coming CNY, it's only 3 weeks away.


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    Could a large part of this be $$ related now? PoPo getting crazy OT pay and bonuses for this that and the other, why would they want the ot to stop?


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