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Mother's Day and you SING | Demonstrators in multi-district shopping malls shout slogans to enter Taikoo City store and close

2020-05-10T07:33:04.743Z


The revision of the "Fugitive Offenders Ordinance" has not yet been completed. A group previously applied for the Kowloon Parade today (10th). However, the police was notified of the opposition to the procession application. The group later announced an extension. The parade ended and some netizens continued to call on "Sing with You" from 3pm today (10th) to sing anti-revision songs in shopping malls in various districts, including Tsim Sha Tsui Harbour City, Kwun Tong APM, Kowloon Tong Another City, Mong Kok New Century In the Plaza, Times Square in Causeway Bay, and Taikoo City Center, some shopping malls have deployed security guards and erected railings to prevent crowds from gathering. In addition, some netizens also initiated the "Mother's Day Street", calling for a march in Tsim Sha Tsui from 2 pm onwards. The police were on alert at 1:30. Some people on the Internet initiated a parade on Jordan Road to Mong Kok New Century Plaza.


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Written by: Huang Weilun, Kong Fanxu, Ouyang Dehao, Chen Shuxia, Wang Jie'en, Wu Zuo'an, Luo Jiaqing, Lao Qingyi

2020-05-10 14:03

Last update date: 2020-05-10 15:30

The revision of the "Fugitive Offenders Ordinance" has not yet been completed. A group previously applied for the Kowloon Parade today (10th). However, the police was notified of the opposition to the procession application. The group later announced an extension.

The parade ended and some netizens continued to call on "Sing with You" from 3pm today (10th) to sing anti-revision songs in shopping malls in various districts, including Tsim Sha Tsui Harbour City, Kwun Tong APM, Kowloon Tong Another City, Mong Kok New Century In the Plaza, Times Square in Causeway Bay, and Taikoo City Center, some shopping malls have deployed security guards and erected railings to prevent crowds from gathering.

In addition, some netizens also initiated the "Mother's Day Street", calling for a march in Tsim Sha Tsui from 2 pm onwards. The police were on alert at 1:30. Some people on the Internet initiated a parade on Jordan Road to Mong Kok New Century Plaza.

15:15 Kwun Tong

More than 100 APM people gathered on the railings of every floor of the mall, and everyone sang "May the glory return to Hong Kong", and chanted "Hong Kong's independence, the only way out" and other slogans. There was "Crying City" published by the public to prepare the Ta Kung Pao. "Protest", said "Do not know how to do it (demonstrators)!"

15:14 Taikoo City

More than a hundred police officers arrived to reinforce the scene and entered the mall to disperse the demonstrators. The police officer at the scene accused the report that someone had gathered and began to enter the mall.

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15:05 Causeway Bay

At Times Square in Causeway Bay, about 40 people stopped at the glass fence of the atrium, but no one started singing, and some stopped to discuss the situation. By 3:05, a small number of people started to sing anti-modification songs on their own, and screamed slogans after singing.

15:04 In Taikoo City, 
dozens of gathered people shouted the anti-repair slogan, and the shops were not affected, as usual. The shopping mall uses a broadcasting system to play recordings to remind people to gather or violate the order.

15:00 District

At 3 pm, in many shopping malls in Hong Kong, demonstrators gathered and shouted slogans. Among them, in Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, the police entered the mall and once attempted to enter the mall to disperse the demonstrators. 

14:50 Tsim Sha Tsui

Some people gathered in Harbour City, demonstrators shouted anti-revision slogans

14:43 Taikoo Shing

At about 1pm, Taikoo City staff and security guards began to guard. The iron fence with the cover of Tie Ma Wai facing the atrium and potted plants were placed to reduce the space for gathering people "with you Sing". As of 2:30 pm, the staff inserted the words "Happy Mother's Day" and "Happy Mother's Day" on the pots.

14:35 Causeway Bay

A small number of employees gathered in the atrium of the Times Square mall, and only about 10 people on all levels of the mall stood near the railing.

14:12 Tsim Sha Tsui

A man was arrested in a police car after being searched at Star Ferry Pier in Tsim Sha Tsui. It is unknown what the man committed.

14:10 Tsim Sha Tsui

Many people in Harbour City are shopping, but no security has been strengthened. The police mainly intercepted citizens on Canton Road and the pier outside the shopping mall.

14:06 Tsim Sha Tsui 

The police and the Star Ferry Pier in Tsim Sha Tsui pulled up the cordon, pointing out that the citizens at the scene violated the restriction order and demanded that the citizens leave immediately, but there were no demonstrators calling slogans at the scene.

14:00 Kwun Tong

The APM mall is still calm for the time being, and there are plenty of people shopping and shopping. There is a riot police patrol outside Yumin Square, and there are riot police guards on both sides of the pedestrian bridge connecting the shopping malls. There is one every ten steps.

13:45 Tsim Sha Tsui

Police outside the Clock Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui, from time to time, intercept the passing citizens.

13:35 The
staff of the Taikoo City Mall began to enclose the fence with iron horses and arrange them with vases to prevent the public from gathering and singing.

13:30 Another City : No one has gathered in the mall. All shops including Starsbuck and Thousand Tael are open as usual. However, security guards wearing yellow vests are stationed at each entrance of the mall and on each floor of the mall.

13:30 Mong Kok

Police cars are on guard outside Langham Place, at the junction of Nathan Road and Argyle Street, and outside Mong Kok East Station. Several riot police officers got off the vehicle and inspected outside Langham Place. People in New World Plaza in Mong Kok walked as usual.

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There were no gatherings at Taikoo Shing , but people who were spending at the mall. Other mall staff began to put on reflective clothing and posted notices at the mall to remind citizens that the restriction of the order was in force. Those who violated the regulations may be illegal.

1325 Tsim Sha Tsui

Dozens of riot police have been stationed outside the Salisbury Garden and Space Museum. When the reporter went to the clock tower along the road, he had not put on the reporter's reflective clothing. During the period, the police twice intercepted the ID card and searched. A police officer pointed out that the black Decathlon backpack used by the reporter was suspicious and believed that the reporter's eyes flickered and the investigation was intercepted. However, the reporter was concentrating on using the phone.

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