Posted on 02/08/2016 4:45:14 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Hong Kong's New Year night of 'rioting' leaves Mong Kok in lockdown after street hawker crackdown descends into ugly street battles between police and protesters
Police: 'Radical elements' with 'makeshift weapons and shields' set fires set as they ran out of control creating a 'riot'
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 09 February, 2016, 1:37am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 09 February, 2016, 8:27am
One of Hong Kong's busiest districts is in virtual lockdown this morning after a night of violence which saw the police open fire with two ''warning shots'' as protesters launched missiles and set fires as a crackdown on illegal street food hawkers escalated into what some witnesses described as a 'riot'.
Mong Kok, the scene of some of the worst unrest during the Occupy protests in 2014 , remains tense as unidentified protesters - a signficant number of them so-called 'localists' who campaign for varying degrees of independence for Hong Kong - launching sporadic brick and bottle attacks on police and the police responding with pepper spray. A number of fires are also reported to be burning in the area surrounding Shantung and Soy Streets and the government has advised motorists to steer clear of the area.
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Looks like Hong Kong just won the NCAA championships.
what we need are more robots, so that people can have more leisure time
not good
prayers for those in the wake
Damn! I just wanted cheap dumpling!
Now that there is funny
Welcome to the Year of the Monkey!
Thats racist!!
Alarming. It is usually a very peaceful, and controlled place.
All sorts of forces are building up.
And the wave will be Yuuuge
Arsonists must be killed.
Pei ping
All I can say is if you’re going to open fire on a crowd like that
you’d better have something more than a revolver.
I like how China handles the islamo fools that ply their wares in the homeland. Hard knocks are for the truly evil.
I have in my hand a chinese C96 invented by the Germans copied by the Chinese and used on Americans in the in the Boxer rebellion,
The Chinese invented that gangsta style
Wait - elsewhere I read the riots were caused when the police tried to shut down food stands - no soup for you.
Damn soup Nazis!
Apparently Ceasar did not get his nickle so we’s goes wilding
Here in America they want to tax little kids lemonade stands
usually aint reduced to gun play in the USA
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