It's not so much the absolute level of police violence in Hong Kong as the arbitrary, capricious way in which the police direct that violence that makes them so hated. They routinely pepper spray or beat people for talking back.https://twitter.com/JOceanW/status/1200292920642818048 …
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Even at Carrie Lam's official listening session in September, two participants stressed that they were not suicidal, alluding to a belief that many suicides (by all evidence part of the normal rate for a city this size) are in fact masked executions.https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/09/27/hong-kongs-carrie-lam-trapped-stadium-4-hours-protesters-rallied-outside-first-town-hall-session/ …
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All that to say, wherever Hong Kong falls on the absolute matrix of police violence, people's lived experience of the situation is terrifying. That reality is important context for understanding people's behavior.
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