Burst
Written by: Ling Yide
2019-12-25 00:10
Last updated: 2019-12-25 01:03Tonight (24th), a netizen initiated "Sing with you" in a multi-regional shopping mall at 7 pm. Among them, there are several plainclothes policemen in Shatin New City Plaza wearing masks and headsets. Some citizens surrounded and accused them when they found out. Police later sent riot police officers and a large number of plainclothes policemen wearing black shirts and black pants to the scene to disperse and gather citizens. The plainclothes police officers had orange and white ribbons on their arms for identification.
Plainclothes police are on alert with telescopic baton and pepper spray. (Photo by Lin Zhenhua)
At 7 pm, more than 200 citizens gathered in the new city square. Someone hung a "five major demands, one is indispensable" banner on the fence and shouted a slogan. Some citizens wrote Christmas wishes in post-it notes in the atrium, and later built Christmas trees with post-it notes.
Meanwhile, at least four plainclothes police officers wearing masks and headphones were on alert on the second floor of New City Plaza, causing a commotion at the scene. A large number of citizens chased plainclothes policemen and surrounded and scolded. Some people raised their mobile phones to shoot. Outside the Baibu ladder in the square, riot police officers are on alert. At nearly 8 pm, a large number of riot police officers entered the New City Plaza to disperse the crowds. The plainclothes police were cleared. After that, nearly 100 riot police officers and plainclothes police stationed in the New City Plaza. Dozens of plainclothes policemen took out telescopic batons to the scene. They saw orange and white hand straps on their arms for identification, and some plainclothes policemen wore black shirts and black pants.
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