Social News
Written by: Lu Leqian
2021-03-01 14:06
Last update date: 2021-03-01 14:06
On September 21, 2019, a group launched the "Recovery of Tuen Mun Park" parade. The demonstration later turned into a conflict between police and civilians. A 19-year-old student was accused of participating in the riot. The case was transferred to the district court earlier. Today (1st) ) The trial was opened in West Kowloon Court.
The prosecution read out the statement of the opening of the case today, and some protesters refused to leave after the demonstration on the day of the case, and they built roadblocks to confront the police officers.
The defendant was accused of shooting at the police with a fire hose and beating his trekking pole to make a noise. He was later arrested in a dispersal operation.
The defendant was also charged with possession of a trekking pole
The defendant Li Ho Ming (19 years old) was charged with two counts of rioting and possession of offensive weapons in a public place, alleging that he participated in the riot outside of Times Square in Tuen Mun on September 21, 2019; and the same day. There is a trekking stick in the earth tube.
Demonstrators blocked the road and paralyzed traffic
The prosecution’s opening statement stated that on September 21, 2019, citizens marched from the Jinxin Wo Li Recreation Ground in Tuen Mun to the Tuen Mun Government Office. After the parade, some of the protesters did not disperse, including a large number of them. Demonstrators wearing black costumes, equipped with helmets, gas masks and face towels built barricades near Tuen Mun Times Square with iron horses and debris to occupy the road, successfully paralyzing the traffic on Tuen Hui Street.
The police arrived at the scene at 4:40 pm to form a line of defense to confront the demonstrators, and issued a warning requesting the demonstrators to disperse, but a crowd of demonstrators refused to leave.
The defendant involved in helping the demonstrators fired at the police with a fire hose
At about 4:45 pm, the defendant, wearing a yellow helmet, gas mask, holding a metal shield and a hiking pole, walked to the front of the demonstrator’s line of defense and assisted another demonstrator to shoot at the police with a fire hose. His hiking stick hit the roadblock to make a noise.
Some demonstrators threw bricks and petrol bombs
At 5:04 in the afternoon, some demonstrators began to attack the police line and threw bricks and petrol bombs at the police line; the police immediately fired tear gas and pushed forward to try to disperse the crowd.
The demonstrators at the scene immediately turned and fled. In the chaos, the defendant was subdued by police officers outside Park Lane, Tuen Mun. During the chaos, at least five demonstrators used long weapons to be beaten.
The case was retrial in the afternoon.
Case Number: DCCC 210/2020
721 Less than half of the witnesses in the black-clothed people in the case of the white-clothed people in the gate A want to protect female reporters from being assaulted
Lu Jianmin accused of owing two cigarettes to his prisoner friend, beaten by Vietnamese and Han pleads guilty to assault
7.28 Hundreds of demonstrators in the Sheung Wan clashes did not leave the scene. 23 arrested persons involved in riots started trial
01News
Tribunals related to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance of the Riot Possession of Offensive Weapons