This is a very representative HK police encounter. Note aggressive yelling through loudspeaker, brandished pepper spray, declaration of illegal assembly and tear gas threat (colored flags), and rapid resort to violence against a small group of onlookers trying to get away https://t.co/skfH1BGtT0
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Hong Kong police tactics have become noticeably more aggressive since October. In particular, they now use the pepper spray paintball gun thing almost immediately, and fire it indiscriminately into crowds that are trying to leave the area as instructed
3:32 AM - 3 Dec 2019
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