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[Christmas] Christmas Eve Harbour City, Langham Place clashes, police release pepper spray

2019-12-24T15:53:04.485Z


Tonight (24th) is Christmas Eve on Christmas Eve. Netizens have launched multi-zone demonstrations. Among them, netizens have launched a demonstration in "Five Zones with You Sing to Return to Hong Kong Safely". Among them, in Mong Kok, the Starbucks coffee shop at Langham Place was damaged and spray-painted. The police once sprayed pepper spray after entering the mall. In addition, riot police cast peppercorn and overpowered many people in Harbour City at night.


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Written by: Xiaobin Bin

2019-12-24 23:40

Last updated: 2019-12-24 23:43

Tonight (24th) is Christmas Eve on Christmas Eve. Netizens have launched multi-zone demonstrations. Among them, netizens have launched a demonstration in "Five Zones with You Sing to Return to Hong Kong Safely". Among them, in Mong Kok, the Starbucks coffee shop at Langham Place was damaged and spray-painted. The police once sprayed pepper spray after entering the mall. In addition, riot police cast peppercorn and overpowered many people in Harbour City at night.

On December 24, a large number of citizens gathered in Sha Tin New City Plaza and raised their mobile phones with flashing lights to slogans. (Photo by Lu Yiming)

Tonight, netizens launched a multi-zone demonstration, including a demonstration of "Will You Sing Wish to Return to Hong Kong Safely" at five district shopping malls. Listed locations include Yuen Long Point, Sha Tin New Town Plaza, Tsim Sha Tsui Harbour City, and Langham Place And Causeway Bay Times Square.

At 7 pm, demonstrators wearing masks began to gather outside Langham Place, and then entered the mall and called for slogans. Around 8 pm, a group of riot police entered Langham Place to cause dissatisfaction with the protesters. Some people threw debris at the riot police and the pepper spray was released by the police.

Also around 8:00, the riot police applied peppercorn and overpowered many people in Harbour City. The demonstrators then left Harbour City, and the conflict moved from the mall to the streets of Tsim Sha Tsui.

On December 24, clashes broke out in Tsim Sha Tsui. Police waved batons and sprayed pepper spray to disperse the crowd. (Photo by Zheng Zifeng)

In addition, in Yuen Long, at 7 pm, people in black gathered and walked around the mall. By 8 pm, demonstrators destroyed the screen of the "Jade Cage Bundle". An emergency situation appeared in the mall radio, and riot police officers immediately Enter the mall.

According to a HKUST radio news group segment, the police subdued a man to the ground in the second phase, another man ran away from the police, and a police officer was knocked down by the man when he wanted to stop. The man suspected crossed the glass fence and fell straight to the atrium ground more than six meters.

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Police said that at close to 8:00 in the evening, a report was received that a "thug" broke into the second phase and damaged the store, so he entered the mall to handle and arrest him. When the police arrived on the second floor of the shopping mall to intercept two men, one of them suddenly fled. At that time, because the police were dealing with the suspect, they could not chase the fleeing man.

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Source: hk1

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