A government chopper was circling overhead, and at one point it decided to hover directly over the crowd for a while, to harass the event with noise. It got zapped with dozens of lasers.pic.twitter.com/EQIT8BdA6R
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A government chopper was circling overhead, and at one point it decided to hover directly over the crowd for a while, to harass the event with noise. It got zapped with dozens of lasers.pic.twitter.com/EQIT8BdA6R
At every Hong Kong protest event I like to try to find the most kitted-out reporter. Tonight's winner edged out strong competition with his helmet-mounted GoPro and tactical knee and elbow pads.pic.twitter.com/vD7VT0C7ZC
By the close of the evening, the crowd had spilled into Harcourt Rd. and it was clear there would be a confrontation. Police had their fancy water cannon lit up and waiting.pic.twitter.com/0cCTdzjaDM
The water cannon came out strong, firing water with a chemical irritant and blue indelible dye. The spicy water is much worse than the tear gas; it's like breathing hot pepper mist in an unventilated kitchen. People were retching and coughing all around from it.pic.twitter.com/DLdelw9cyX
(Reattaching to thread) Harcourt Rd. was a sorrowful sight after police cleared it.pic.twitter.com/IawKQHhO3v
I came across this water barricade bleeding out, and there was nothing I could do to save it.pic.twitter.com/amJgELWHNY
The riot police did their usual derping around the scene after the protesters left, but they went on to aggressively stop and search buses and trams elsewhere in the city. This marks another escalation for Hong Kongers, who are truly living in a police state nowpic.twitter.com/1nxH7tkOG0
As a white foreigner, I can go down into the MTR without fear of arrest. The riot police were there as usual, but there were also weird people standing around in yellow vests who were not reporters. The guy below the red sign in this photo was filiming everyone with a tripod.pic.twitter.com/Up18IvXORQ
Tonight was the Hong Kong protests in miniature: celebration, defiance, repression, evasion, escape. Everything is building towards the great protest on October 1. I am full of admiration for the courage and tenacity of people in this city. They are all heroes to me.pic.twitter.com/dT10jcd0HF
... What's w/Pepe on those banners? Hope it's satire.
Pepe doesn't have the same connotations here as in the United States. He's a popular figure in the protests and people just know him as 'sad frog'. Different cultural context (and I'm delighted to have Pepe reclaimed)
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