Gonna update what’s been happening at CUHK in the last hour
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Still barricades up at CUHK and riot police on bridge no2. These are students barricading themselves on their own campuspic.twitter.com/j3GoGQ3z3s
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Frontline of protesters moved forward and there was a hail of bricks, molotovs and tear gaspic.twitter.com/G8qtNXMeJI
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Some protesters were throwing bricks from above, police were firing in all directionspic.twitter.com/qa9uYfuy2y
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Police charged forward toward the front lines to make arrestspic.twitter.com/eo9OjVFPGV
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This arrested student was bleeding from the head
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They also dragged this protester across the asphalt for several feet after a group of police tackled him
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A bunch of protesters retreated to the athletic field and locked themselves in away from police who had charged forward. Police continued to fire tear gas on the fieldpic.twitter.com/PFodSZUgcs
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Another group of protesters retreated behind a gate and a car was set on firepic.twitter.com/4QkOylyMFM
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A huge fire broke out on the athletic field too and more students started to retreat up the bleachers
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Police were repeatedly raising the black flag and firing tear gas in the direction of the car on fire as well as the fire that broke out on the athletic field
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Eventually the police retreated back toward the bridge, fire dept came to put out the car, students retreated further up the road in the opposite directionpic.twitter.com/mjpHmyDbcK
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Frontliners here are back to prepping— making molotovs w paint thinner, gathering bricks and building a new barricade with desks and chairs
#cuhk#hongkongprotests#hongkongpic.twitter.com/guNg7Yckaq
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Police are back at bridge no. 2 along w fire truck, ambulance and police vans. Tear gas is is still in air an hr or so later and street is charredpic.twitter.com/eUW1Nx73bi
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The principal of CUHK is here now talking w a few students and in a press mob. One student has a cardboard box of tear gas canisters to show him as evidence of the police actionpic.twitter.com/LmDnHOaOBi
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Press has stopped up the road from where police are, CUHK principal Rocky Tuan is w a group and negotiating w police, asked press to give them space to negotiatepic.twitter.com/4nJg5SQ4yq
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A protester just came down the street w a chainsaw revving, walking toward where police are stationed— a group of protesters stopped him, convinced him to put it down, turn it off and encircled him in a huge hugpic.twitter.com/FNdUQ454yj
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Ok back from negotiations but they say would like to talk to students first before they share the results of the negotiation w the press (there’s a huge group of press blocking the road, students are farther back behind a barricade)pic.twitter.com/4IEISThel5
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I cant explain how surreal it is to follow a Univ principle past a burnt out car, a fire and a line of protesters so he can give statement about his negotiations w police who fired tons of tear gas at the athletic field and made aggressive arrests herepic.twitter.com/pCau04DsOe
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I don’t speak Cantonese but
@hkwuliff has a good account of the ~30 min back and forth bt students and univ on his feed. Frontliners here now telling me they won’t leave until they know arrested students are safe.Show this thread -
Frontline of protesters moved up near bridge 2 - molotovs, tear gas, bricks, rubber bulletspic.twitter.com/Hy8XN4vQLs
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These are students, moving behind behind these barriers, under heavy fire
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Police in tight line at the edge of bridge no. 2 hard to get a good shot bc of their lights, fires still ragingpic.twitter.com/fLj3JIJ8bt
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Still heavy fire of molotovs and tear gas and rubber bullets going on. Front line has inched more toward police againpic.twitter.com/cGnudBTgfn
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Some of heaviest tear gas I’ve seen in part bc this standoff is taking place in a small area, police still on bridge and protesters only a few meters back. They’re doing best w leaf blower to clear all the tear gas smokepic.twitter.com/670ZM47ZnU
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Protesters are incredibly somehow still moving fwd up the bridge where police are, and despite fire that has been essentially nonstoppic.twitter.com/UUFjxLFno1
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I can’t tell how far away the police line is but protesters are still pushing up the bridge, have def reached the point where police were earlier. Bridge is still full of fire, bricks, tear gaspic.twitter.com/b5FZNv4L8C
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Huge crowd still pushing forward across the bridge, using molotovs to gain groundpic.twitter.com/iX33hb693R
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