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Mother's Day and You SING | Police instructed arsonists to set fire to block more than 200 people in Mong Kok

2020-05-11T08:12:45.913Z


Restrictions on the relaxation of the order, plus Mother ’s Day on Sunday, netizens called to "sing with you" in large shopping malls. After night, it turned into a conflict in Mong Kok. Some people gathered on Nathan Road and Xiyangcai South Street. The police instructed the fighters to block the road and set fire, raise a blue flag to warn and disperse, and the riot police rushed to subdue many people. It is reported that the police arrested more than 200 people in Mong Kok, and Legislative Council Member Kwong Jun Yu was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public places.


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Author: Ling Yide

2020-05-11 08:54

Date of last update: 2020-05-11 16:03

Restrictions on the relaxation of the order, plus Mother ’s Day on Sunday, netizens called to "sing with you" in large shopping malls. After night, it turned into a conflict in Mong Kok. Some people gathered on Nathan Road and Xiyangcai South Street. The police instructed the fighters to block the road and set fire, raise a blue flag to warn and disperse, and the riot police rushed to subdue many people. It is reported that the police arrested more than 200 people in Mong Kok, and Legislative Council Member Kwong Jun Yu was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public places.

The police instructed the fighters to set fire to block the road. It is reported that nearly 200 people were arrested in the vicinity of Mong Kok. (Photo by Lu Yiming)

The "Fugitive Offenders Regulations" amendments are still in an uproar. Netizens took advantage of the large shopping mall "Sing With You" on Sunday. After going to the street from the shopping mall at night, demonstrators began to walk out of Nathan Road and evolved into a Mong Kok conflict. In Mong Kok last night (10th), the fire began everywhere at 8 o'clock. Demonstrators flashed the road at the junction of Nathan Road and Mong Kok Road and filled the road with debris. The police officer on alert at Soy Street, after several warnings asking the gathering to disperse, suddenly dispatched to disperse. Police raised blue flags on Xiyangcai South Street and Shandong Street to warn those involved in the illegal assembly and applied pepper spray.

At 11:00 pm, the police posted on the Facebook page that demonstrators gathered in Mong Kok around the night, shouting slogans and blocking roads with debris, destroying social peace. In addition, some violent demonstrators set fires on Nielsen Street, Western Food Street, Shandong Street and Soy Street, seriously endangering public order and the personal safety of those present. The police repeatedly warned the demonstrators to stop the illegal activities and made them disperse and arrested according to the situation on the spot, and called on the people present and the citizens in the streets nearby to leave.

The police arrested many people, including Kwong Jun Yu, a member of the Legislative Council. (Photo by Zheng Zifeng)

Kuang Junyu suspected of arresting water bottle in public place and arrested for misconduct

The police used pepper spray to disperse. People at the scene included reporter Zhongjiao. The riot police raised the blue flag outside Nathan Road near Hang Seng Bank. During the period, the riot gun was raised, but it was not used. According to the news, the police arrested nearly 200 people in Mong Kok. Legislator Kwong Jun-yu, at the junction of Shandong Street and Nathan Road, was sprayed with pepper when he took out the loud voice and the riot police theory. Kwong Jun Yu is being treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Police said at about 10:40 last night, the police found that many people had gathered at the junction of Shandong Street and Nathan Road in Mong Kok, suspected of violating the Prevention and Control of Diseases (Prohibition of Group Gathering) Regulations (Cap. Police officers repeatedly warned people at the scene to leave, during which a 37-year-old man named Kwong threw a water bottle in the direction of the police officer at the scene, and the police officer arrested him. Kwong Junyu was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public places and is being detained for investigation. The case was handed over to the West Kowloon Regional Crime Unit.

At noon on the following day of Mother's Day, dozens of family members still inquired about the arrest of their family outside the police station. (Cai Zhengbang)

The police said that as of 12 noon today, the police issued fixed penalty notices to 19 people who violated the Regulations in all districts of Hong Kong. In addition, the officers arrested a total of about 230 people, aged between 12 and 65 years old, involved in crimes including illegal assembly, possession of tools for illegal purposes, possession of any items intended to destroy or damage property, possession of offensive weapons, possession of drugs 1. Misconduct in public places, obstructing police officers from performing their duties, attacking police officers, and failing to produce identification documents, etc.

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Source: hk1

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