Tonight marks two months since the attack, in which the police violated their most basic duty—to keep people safe. There was supposed to be a sit-in at the station, but the police closed it off. So the sit in has moved to the mall
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Why don't the police clear the mall? They kind of can't. The mall is private property and there is no way the owners will let the cops enter. They could force their way in, but that would be a huge escalation and likely illegal (help me out on this point!)
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Why do the owners let this happen without inviting police in? Because the protesters will leave here without touching a thing, but if the owners were to invite the police in, the demonstrators would consider the mall a fair target
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This is what happened to the MTR. When I first got here in August, it was neutral ground. Police stopped at the gates and protesters never damaged stations. But the MTR started aiding the police, and now it gets trashed on the regular
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It's hard to overemphasize how selective protesters are about property damage. The only time I've seen this violated is when frontliners are scared and barricading, and then they'll bar mall doors and discharge fire extinguishers to make floors slippery
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More points of interest! Note that the police decision to close two stations today had the knock on effect of shutting a giant mall on a Saturday night, and much of a business and market district in Tuen Mun. The weekend closures have a huge economic impact
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@Comparativist points out that this mall, like so many others, is owned by the MTR. https://twitter.com/Comparativist/status/1175381781228351489?s=19 …Pinboard added,
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The police are outside and protesters are at the windows taunting them. But they've also soaped the floor by the closed MTR gate, to give themselves a few seconds headstart if police do charge inpic.twitter.com/P9GxXjKXAY
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Just imagine antifa or your favorite black bloc back home doing this. The mall is absolutely packed, with nowhere to sit except the floor, but no one crosses even the flimsiest boundarypic.twitter.com/Jv3dMy4AXy
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cmon, the difference in police responses in these countries is *night and day*. Please embed with those communities and groups in the country you live before making these absolute cheap shots.
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What does police response have to do with not trashing a mall?
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Terrorism add-ons charges thrown in to systematically decapitate movements and their leaders leaving anonymous horizontal groups as the only viable strategy? Group trauma? Do we need to look at Standing Rock? J20? Or the Panthers? Lifetimes taken with nary a mall trashed.
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