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9.6 Parade. Overview|Demonstrators block roads and pick up debris, police shoot pepper balls to disperse nearly 300 people

2020-09-06T17:21:35.824Z


September 6 was originally the voting day for the Legislative Council election, but the government decided to postpone the election for one year in response to the epidemic. Some netizens called for a demonstration in Kowloon to oppose the "National Security Law", election postponement and health codes in the Hong Kong area. During this period, some people blocked roads in Mong Kok, chanting slogans such as "Hong Kong Independence" and threw water bottles and other sundries at police officers. . In addition to raising the purple flag, the police also fired pepper balls to disperse the crowd. The police said that as of 9 p.m., at least 289 people had been arrested, including the chairman of Social Minlian Company Huang Haoming and former chairman Liang Guoxiong.


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Written by: Huang Weilun and Yang Wanting

2020-09-07 01:03

Last update date: 2020-09-07 01:03

September 6 was originally the voting day for the Legislative Council election, but the government decided to postpone the election for one year in response to the epidemic.

Some netizens called for a demonstration in Kowloon to oppose the "National Security Law", election postponement and health codes in the Hong Kong area. During this period, some people blocked roads in Mong Kok, chanting slogans such as "Hong Kong Independence" and threw water bottles and other sundries at police officers. .

In addition to raising the purple flag, the police also fired pepper balls to disperse the crowd.

The police said that as of 9 p.m., at least 289 people had been arrested, including the chairman of Social Minlian Company Huang Haoming and former chairman Liang Guoxiong.

The parade did not have a notice of no objection, and it was scheduled to start at 2:30 pm, and participants were called online to depart at the junction of Jordan Road and Nathan Road, or at Eaton Hotel.

Before the parade started, the police had been on guard in Yau Tsim Mong area around noon. Riot police were stationed in many places and intercepted citizens from time to time. In addition, the police erected roadblocks outside the Red Tunnel and stopped some vehicles. Long queues appeared outside the tunnel.

At about the start time of the parade, some netizens called for a change to meet at Battery Street, Jordan. A large number of police officers were stationed at the scene.

Later, the chairman of the Social People’s Company Huang Hao Ming, the former chairman Liang Guoxiong, and the member and deputy convener of the Chinese People’s Front, Chen Haohuan, appeared in Jordan and shouted slogans. Some police officers claimed that three people had participated in an unauthorized demonstration. They also claimed that about 30 citizens followed them. Finally, the police officers took the three people into the police car.

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At about 4:30, a NWFB bus 970 was passing through the junction of Waterloo Road in Yau Ma Tei, but was stopped by the police and the captain was also taken off the bus.

About an hour later, the captain was taken into a police car. The police stated on social networking sites that the captain was driving fast when driving, and he was once close to a police officer on duty standing by the roadside, and was arrested on suspicion of "dangerous driving."

In addition to Jordan, some citizens gathered in Mong Kok. Some people chanted slogans in Langham Place, including "Hong Kong's only way to independence." Others walked out of the road on Sai Yeung Choi South Street in Mong Kok and blocked the road with trash cans.

At about 4:40, some demonstrators threw sundries, including umbrellas, water bottles, etc., at the police at Sai Yeung Choi South, Mong Kok. The police fired pepper ball guns. Sources at the scene stated that an online media reporter was hit and fell to the ground.

In addition, the police raised a purple flag at the scene.

In addition, when the riot police stopped and searched the gathering of people on Sai Yeung Choi South Street, they told a 12-year-old girl that they would stop and search. The girl was suspected of being frightened and ran forward. The outflanking riot police fell to the ground and sat on the ground for a while. On the body, his brother tried to step up and hold the girl, but was unsuccessful and was arrested together.

The police later alleged that the girl suddenly pulled her feet out during interception and ran away. She "behaved suspiciously" and followed and chased her, saying that she was "subdued with the minimum necessary force." In the end, the girl and the rest of the scene violated the "restriction order." Was voted against.

Riot police officers carried out a dispersal operation in Mong Kok, during which they raised the pepper ball gun.

(Photo by Zheng Zifeng)

At the junction of Shan Dong Street and Sai Yee Street at 5 pm, when plainclothes police uniformed a man blocking the road, onlookers threw sundries such as umbrellas and water bottles at the police.

A number of plainclothes police officers sprayed peppers and waved batons to subdue three men in the center of the road and on the sidewalk. They shouted: "Go!", "Buried aside!" Then they grabbed one of the men's pants and bags , Drag on the ground for more than ten meters to the roadside.

A number of arrested men were later taken in a police car and taken away.

At about 5:40, the demonstrators confronted the police again and threw plastic bottles and other debris at the police line. After that, the riot police fired pepper balls to disperse the people at the scene.

In addition, the police set up blockades in many places, and many citizens and people wearing reflective vests were intercepted and searched. Near Soy Street, about 20 people were hooked up and brought into police cars.

The interception and arrest operations were postponed to approximately 10 pm, and the riot police returned to the police car to guard.

According to the police, starting from today, at least 289 people have been arrested in Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok as of 9 pm, of which 270 are suspected of illegal assembly, and the rest are suspected of "behaviour in public places" and "failed to produce valid identification. He was arrested for "documents", "assaulting police officers", "obstructing police officers from performing their duties", and "loitering".

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Photo series | Netizens call on Kowloon parade police to deploy heavily in Mong Kok to shoot pepper balls

A government spokesman said that a large number of citizens ignored the police's advice and participated in unauthorized assemblies in many districts of Kowloon, blocking roads with debris, and some people threw hard objects at police officers and shouted "Hong Kong independence" slogans, strongly condemned Illegal and selfish behavior.

The spokesman also said that the police will perform their duties and take swift and decisive enforcement actions to bring offenders to justice.

↓↓The plainclothes police clashed fiercely with the demonstrators, spraying pepper and dragging for ten meters and arrested↓↓

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↓↓12-year-old girl was rounded up and struggling, police accused of being suspiciously invoking a violation order ↓↓

↓↓The police once accused the NWFB driver of ``snapping for no reason'' and then arrested for dangerous driving↓↓

Hong Kong version of the National Security Law

Source: hk1

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