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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What is the PRC being heavy-handed, again?
They wouldn’t! /s lol
It seems they do have a very similar discontent among the youth as in western societies. I’m sure that is very irritating to the PRC PTB.
They can have my Donkey Meat Sandwich when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
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