The bridge makes it visible just how much tear gas the police fire. Imagine this happening over and over in a residential high-rise neighborhood. The gas has zero effect on front line demonstrators (who wear masks and goggles) but really affects residents. It's strictly punitive
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It's also important to point out that demonstrators don't scatter because they are physically afraid of the police, but because they don't want to be arrested. Hong Kong's anti-riot laws mean you could do a decade of hard time for protesting like this. And yet people protest.
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The only thing missing from this time lapse to make it a canonical 2019 Hong Kong protest is zip-tied metal barricades, a fire started in the gap, journalists in the way, and a big laser battle between protesters using laser pointers and police with high-intensity strobe lights
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Asking for a friend. Is Hong Kong safe for tourists these days?
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Completely safe for tourists. Worst-case scenario is public transit outages.
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