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"Disperse Or We Fire"- Hong Kong Police Shoot Tear Gas At Protesting Students: Live Webcast
Yesterday we reported that the biggest riot over the weekend was not in Ferguson (although things there are hardly stable after a local police officer was shot in the violent town overnight) but in Hong Kong, where students and other mostly young people are protesting the recent loss of their democratic vote powers and thus "the loss of their freedom." Since then things have gotten from bad to worse when late last night Hong Kong declared the start of the Occupy Central disobedience campaign, leading to violent skirmishes with the police, which over the past hour have included the use of tear gas by the police as well as the first outright warning by the cops demanding that the student protesters disperse or risk being fired upon.
A standoff between police and pro-democracy protesters intensified near where thousands have converged in the past days to demand free elections.
Around 6 p.m., police moved to clear the area, using tear gas against protesters near Hong Kong government buildings that had been blocked off. Protesters streamed away trying to wave away clouds of smoke and holding handkerchiefs against their mouths and noses. Many were running; others were raising their hands above their heads in an indication of nonviolent intent.
Crowds of thousands had gathered in the area through the afternoon, with protesters attempting to build barricades against police. At one point, a few police cars were surrounded by a sea of protesters. "Hong Kong police, you have been surrounded, please leave," protesters shouted over a sound system.
Police showed red signs urging the activists to stop charging or force would be used. Riot police in helmet shields and face masks were at the site.
After the tear-gas spraying, many protesters who had dispersed regrouped in the Tamar waterfront park where a stage and rows of chairs had been erected ahead of celebrations for China's National Day on Wednesday.
After spending hours holding the protesters at bay, police lobbed canisters of tear gas into the crowd on Sunday evening. The searing fumes sent protesters fleeing down the road, but many came right back to continue their demonstration.
Students and activists have been camped out on the streets outside the government complex all weekend. Students started the rally, but by early Sunday leaders of the broader Occupy Central civil disobedience movement said they were joining them to kick-start a long-threatened mass sit-in to demand an election for Hong Kong's leader without Beijing's interference.
Authorities launched their crackdown after the protest spiraled into an extraordinary scene of chaos as the protesters jammed a busy road and clashed with officers wielding pepper spray.
The protesters were trying tried to reach a mass sit-in being held outside government headquarters to demand Beijing grant genuine democratic reforms to the former British colony.
The demonstrations - which Beijing called "illegal" - were a rare scene of disorder in the Asian financial hub, and highlighted authorities' inability to get a grip on the public discontent over Beijing's tightening grip on the city. The protesters reject Beijing's recent decision to restrict voting reforms for the first-ever elections to choose Hong Kong's leader, promised for 2017.
Earlier Sunday, thousands of protesters who tried to join the sit-in breached a police cordon, spilling out onto a busy highway and causing traffic to come to a standstill. Police officers in a buffer zone manned barricades and doused the protesters with pepper spray carried in backpacks. The demonstrators, who tried at one point to rip apart metal barricades, carried umbrellas to deflect the spray by the police, who were wearing helmets and respirators.
Police had told those involved in what they also call an illegal gathering to leave the scene as soon as possible, warning that otherwise they would begin to clear the area and make arrests.
The use of the tear gas angered the protesters, who chanted "Shame on C.Y. Leung" after it was used, referring to the city's deeply unpopular Beijing-backed leader, Leung Chun-ying. To many, it also seemed to mark a major shift for Hong Kong, whose residents have long felt their city stood apart from mainland China thanks to its guaranteed civil liberties and separate legal and financial systems.
The following warning from the local police urging protesters to disperse or "they will fire" has attracted a lof attention:
BREAKING: HONG KONG POLICE WARNS "DISPERSE OR WE FIRE" - MING PAO LIVE PHOTO (Fire what? Bullet? HK=Tiananman 1989?) pic.twitter.com/KvIZQtbRwZ
— George Chen (@george_chen) September 28, 2014
This is madness RT @hkdemonow: #HK Police is warning protestors to leave or they will FIRE! #OccupyCentral pic.twitter.com/cEG4jYXHgs
— Ying Chan (@yingworld) September 28, 2014
I have never seen the orange flag before. "Leave or we will shoot" shoot what? pic.twitter.com/F3zu5zN7iv
— Grace Tsoi (@gracehw) September 28, 2014
Orange warning sign fr police: Might shoot to disperse crowd. Instant msg: No one has been shot but police hitting ppl w baton ?????????????
— Occupy Central ???? (@OCLPHK) September 28, 2014
Here id some more commentary from the ground in Hong Kong over the past few hours:
Hong Kong police use tear gas to break up the #OccupyCentral protest http://t.co/IVELO7tQQH (Photo: AP) pic.twitter.com/6ASyXQfV1n
— WSJ Asia (@WSJAsia) September 28, 2014
Fully armed riot police carry what appear to be guns with long barrels. Hold up signs: "Warning: Tear Smoke" on television. #OccupyCentral
— SCMP News (@SCMP_News) September 28, 2014
Tear gas was being fired into crowds at close range. pic.twitter.com/HTSjt7nS4l
— Yuen Chan (@xinwenxiaojie) September 28, 2014
RT @joannachiu: Another main artery blocked, Queensway outside Lippo Centre. Protesters acting spontaneously without directions from leaders
— Ying Chan (@yingworld) September 28, 2014
Finally, here are several live streams from the scene of the action:
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CAN YOU UNDERSTAND CANTONESE NEWS? I GUESS NOT OTHERWISE YOU WOULD NOT MAKE THOSE ABSURD STATEMENTS ABOUT THEY ARE NOT SECONDARY SCHOOL KIDS. FARKING IDIOT!
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS IT LIKE BEING A HUMAN BEING ? FARKING IDIOT !
But our examples and experiences are from the West.
Modern China marches to a different drummer. And seems to be doing pretty good.
Maybe the protesters will get lucky and the US will send some freedom and democracy their way.
Only the Patriot Act and Homeland Security. They can't afford to send anything useful.
just more CIA agents, provocateurs, and container ships full of fresh Bernanke Bucks.
Look at the sources: AP, Reuters, SCMP (all Western Fascist propaganda media controlled by the banking cartel) Love it. Everyone has to be a sucker once in their life I guess!
I live nearby, and was there earlier today.
Peaceful protests, nasty response by police - tear gas etc.
For a live feed go to:
http://hongkong.coconuts.co/2014/09/28/video-live-feed-occupy-central-de...
We are a peaceful lot in HK, but this has really stirred the emotions and anti-Beijing sentiment is certainly on the rise.
Looks like we won't be going to work tomorrow.
THEN YOU ARE BUT A EXPAT MORON!
Clearly your assessment is based on the fact that I can write properly. Grow up you silly twat.
Too bad you cannot comprehend. Being a cheerleader for your en-slaver is both pathetic and ironic.
HK was built on hard-work, good business ethics and a stable yet has a rule of law free-port. In no time of my existence have I read the WORD DEMOCRACY that has contributed to the blow away success of Hong Kong as a International Trading center. Who's the idiot? The person that promotes its very demise or the person that calls out the charade.
Then again, your just some idiot that can string together a bit of English and thinks he know something. I THINK NOT!
lol I see you speak from experience!
(not from being an expat, either!)
Tiananmen Square all over again... history repeats but no one learns for f*** sake!
Maidan too
I smell CIA in these protests.
That is the lie of the scum used to discreidt the movement. Outside influence , blah blah blah. Go away Fifty Cents.
Nuland much money invested in Hong Kong?
hehe.
They need to be in front of Loyd Blankfeins house and not in Hong Kong.
na..they are financed by these clowns indirectly.
DICKHEAD. Being used by the cartel and you don't even know it. HAHAHAHAHA.
There's going to be a massive outflux of money into overseas housing markets - Canadian, New Zealand, Australia, esp - since no HK'er is going to feel secure after this. I saw this back in 1996. I then watched as a HK women buy a whole block of brand new houses in Calagary for her family and friends.
I realize many trolls here today.
Anyone comment on or Nuland CIA involved in this long process of manufacture protests do not know the dynamics of it.
Are years and years of preparation making people's heads through NGOs - nongovernmental organizations - funded with American public money.
There are tribes of Indians in the Amazon who speak their language and ENGLISH!
Gasp!
Most have no idea of the insane reach about other cultures.
Putin banned or violently curtailed NGOs in Russia.
China also.
Hong Kong has a special, differentiated status - but belongs to China, and Macau.
This status can be hampered a simple stroke of the pen of Beijing.
Russian and Chinese are tolerant but patience has limits and generally the response of these governments is violent, furious.
The answer is violent and angry because they give warnings, many warnings alerting.
Deaf ears believe that it is weakness of the government, is not.
When the shit grabs, protesters make victim.
But then, it's late, they're fucked.
Whenever there is a stampede of American passports in airports when the native state, any state gives a shitload on protesters.
hehe.
Is English your second language?
No!
Portuguese, French and German.
I lock with English, if I refuse to converse in English.
:-)
They were cesspools of CIA spydom. Does Putin have to ask leave of Obama to do anything? You are too hard on Putin.
I've noticed the 'trolls' of late seem to be less educated, RT in paticular. But they are worse here on ZH now... Budget cut backs?
Cut in funds.
Only the best will.
ZH probably chosen as a battleground.
You know, the boss is too dumb to be reading comments on many different pages.
Delimit one place and expose everything that a good Troll Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk can write!
If you kick between the legs of government - more specifically speaking in the bag, break many teeth Troll.
hehe.
How do you circumcise a troll?
Kick his sister in the jaw!
http://hongkong.coconuts.co/2014/09/28/photos-faces-hong-kong-schoolchil...
School kids anyone?
Great for the satanoic leaders. All you can eat!
Was the training at the Ministry of State Security hard? How many were in your graduating class? Were your parents proud when you received your certificate?
Tell ol' Geng Huichang the crowd at Zero Hedge send their best! Thanks!!
No, certs are for retards like yourself. Troll often like to receive such anal gifts as they are constantly shagged up the anal orifice and it becomes a habit to obtain recognition to deflect the humiliation of being a MORONIC rat that gets shafted day and night by the Private Fed and obeying the Patriot Act whilst living a Orwellian existence but pretending that he/she lives in the land of OZ.....PATHETIC!
If China was a Muslim State, they wouldn't have this problem.
The world is going to have more and more protests until WWIII. Some people will probably even protest WWIII.
Butane cylinders. Butane is more dense than airm so it pools.
When it mixes with air you have a fuel air explosive. Same with propane but it usually doesn't come in handy throwable canisters.
This is how desperate the organizers are (SCHOOL CHILDREN)
http://www.todayonline.com/world/hong-kong-school-children-join-student-...
How SAD can a MOVEMENT get when you need NAIVE SCHOOL CHILDREN to do your BIDDING !
CLEARLY THEY ARE DESPERATE!
Those students are nothing but naive (morons):
......the recent loss of their democratic vote powers.....
the word "democratic" must make everybody suspicious.
elections and votes are all rigged.
this spontaneous movement is well instignated by CIA. That makes all of them CIA agents and their causa suspicious in the eyes of the whole world (except "democrats", of course), was Nudelmann-Kagan recently around HK?
Well said like a true ZH patron. Us ZH'ers know the MO and its becoming all to common place for the banking cartel to export this BS globally. I mean, how idiotic does one get when they have used DEMOCRACY in countries such as Iraq, Syria, Libyia, Yemen, Egypt, Ukraine, Afghan etc. to promote war, crime, bloodshed, chaos and outright debt slavery?
Nation building for the DC/EU/NATO/LANGLEY Fascist's is nothing more than scorched earth on steriods.
I worked in Hong Kong doing vacation relief a few months of the year all throught the 90's. I was there in the streets during the handover. "One country two systems" was the Bejing rallying cry. I can only imagine the creeping influence of Bejing and this was the proverbial straw. Note, In the past foreigners could not use Yuan in China. Outside currencise were sought after, namely the dollar. After the handover, China had to legitimise the Yuan. IMHO, Hong Kong being the financial center of asia was the route to do this. The high level money launder leverage was done in HK for the mother China.
Bankers again!
The naivete of some of these comments is world class
The comments assume that as a country's population increases from a million, to ten million, to a hundred million to a billion, that the freedoms of the citizens either stays the same or becomes greater.
It's rather endearing.
Update: it's over. Protesters have started withdrawing.
Over ? dont the facists wish.
Citizen who could not get over to Central because the police blocked the subway exit and streets, have start gathering in MongKok. The crowd is getting larger and more angry. It is 4 in the morning.
DBS just announced the temporary closure of the bank tomorrow.
How are you going to contain the anger of several millions of wronged people ? Hong Kong is small place and it can be paralysed very easily. Just a few cars blocking the cross harbor undersea tunnels will bring the city to a complete stop.
on the other hand, the authorities can embargo the island until the students turn on their CIA provocateurs and calm down.
Limited food and water, no electricity for the elevators in the myriad high rises (those old rich hong kongers will have to climb 70 flights of stairs to get to their offices and apartments). Eventually, the unseasoned students will realize how little an 18 year old knows about the rotten world America has created.
Fat American fascists will be eating Peking Duck in expensive Manhattan restaurants while innocent students in Hong Kong will be sprayed with gas.
Don't forget the False Flag provocateurs who will start fires and destroy part of the city and blame it on the police.
We've been there. We've seen that.
soros freedumb
bressinski will soon be dishing out the guns like he did in the afghan.
cia warning shot
putin next what what
Here's sumpin for you, tony. I think you'll like.
https://www.stormfront.org/truth_at_last/archives/sassoon.htm
It's kinda topical
Continuously plugging this as in any way similar to Ferguson is despicable manipulation. This is more staged Occupy fakery.
Not only is not over as the FIFTY CENTS wish.
The protest has now spread all over the city spontaneously. People are settting up metal barrier to block the road. Ordinary citizens could not stand it anymore and they started to join in.
The normal gear people bring to the protest consist of clear plastic bag to put over their head and eyes against pepper spray. Water to wash their eyes. Food and umbrella and most important of all, garbage bag to clean up the site when they leave. All of them know the importance of raising thteir hands to show they are not armed and have no violence intention. One student was attacked physically in the face but offer no resistance. People know not to give the police any excuses to use deadly force or declaration of martial law.
I think we can expect waves of exodus of money and talent from Hong Kong, leaving the dead city to the facist who think it does not matter. In fact why would it matter, those totalitarian mother fuckers and their families can simply move to the US and other countries like many already did.
TPT8 are shutting down social media. One by one.
This is ch4n
http://i.imgur.com/FldKggr.jpg
also, ramping up propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reSrmmae63k
and remember folks, propaganda is now legal in good ole U.S. of A
http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/06/first-time-since-1948-propaganda-is-now-legal-in-the-u-s/
Hang Seng futures drop 200 points at the futures open, Chinese A50 still positive
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LOL. Guess some of the HK folks missed the memo they are now under the control of a communist dictatorship. We already know how this plays out. Beijing will let the HKers vent their spleen for a few weeks - then the crackdown. And the crackdown will be hard and brutal. Tiannamen style.
Expect a bit of temporary market disruption amid the smashed skulls and bullet-riddled bodies. But then HK will return to what it does best - laundering money, without the intrusion of messy democracy.
It's remarkable how the CIA did it again.
If you substituted borscht for won ton soup, you would be back in Kiev last winter.
It's all about $dollar, hk is the finance hub of Asia, wall street needs dollars there coming home to support current bubble. BTW, I wonder why these people didn't protest when UK assigned their 'governor' before 1997.