When Hong Kong police have been in danger, it is invariably because they broke off in small groups into a sea of demonstrators and got separated from their colleagues. I witnessed this personally in Prince Edward on 9/2; many others have seen or videotaped similar situations.
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This is a chance for Mr. Cook to make amends by stepping into the arena. He would be warmly welcomed in Hong Kong, he would have a chance to see with his own eyes what is happening here, and he would leave perhaps more in touch with the values that Apple still claims to uphold.
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To Apple employees, I will just say: look at the numbers. Over two thousand arrests since June, thousands injured (including people who were not hurt at the time of arrest), many alleging sexually assault by the police. Children as young as 11 put in the hospital. Two kids shot.
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Multiple thousands of rounds of tear gas fired in densely populated residential areas, including hundreds at a time in a single night. Kids taken from parents and put in foster care as punishment for demonstrating. It's pretty clear who needs protecting from whom in Hong Kongpic.twitter.com/gHB6k5Mdu8
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Finally, I offer my sincerest condolences to
@waze, which unlike HKmap is an app specifically intended for evading law enforcement, and which by Mr. Cook's logic must therefore brace itself for imminent removal from the App StoreShow this thread -
The developer of
@HKmaplive has a detailed rebuttal to Mr. Cook's allegations that is worth reading in fullhttps://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1182154372563836928 …Show this thread
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