Frontline of protesters moved forward and there was a hail of bricks, molotovs and tear gaspic.twitter.com/G8qtNXMeJI
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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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Heavy water cannon fire on bridge they also sprayed over the cement barrier where press was crouching to take photospic.twitter.com/VYByyxLJR3
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Undeterred, protesters start another huge fire on the CUHK side of the bridge, and dozens start to walk back over the bridge carrying new barriers and suppliespic.twitter.com/6xATiYVCSJ
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This is some of the challenge of getting injured protesters off the bridge as a tear gas canister starts going off a few inches from himpic.twitter.com/N6fXZcXzgQ
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Back on bridge. We’ve reached the point where they’re putting the javelins to use. (Earlier this afternoon the shot puts were being used to break apart bricks. )pic.twitter.com/VJx4GP9iqT
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Still here on the bridge, protesters are building a new barrier w metal stairs and fencingpic.twitter.com/sR6nsDGMZn
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Ok I stepped away for a bit but they have multiple barriers at the far end of bridge no. 2 now. Only protesters on the bridge now. Police not in sightpic.twitter.com/tG3owKhAo0
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There are dozens guarding the barrier on the far side of the bridge now, each w a Molotov cocktail in hand and flicking lighters to get readypic.twitter.com/RVI0h7ennr
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This is frontline of protests on the far side of bridge no. 2. All night this has been a fight to reclaim bridge to keep police out of CUHKpic.twitter.com/BBzsXhuORx
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I legit don’t even know how they did this but protesters just carried the burnt out car that was on fire earlier this afternoon to the bridge?? And added it to the barrier, and cheered when they lifted it and tipped it on its sidepic.twitter.com/sEs5yHslDR
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Under the bridge vehicles are stopped and there’s a ton of debrispic.twitter.com/QGbu4rVRry
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It’s 1am in HK and there’s still a human supply chain of protesters passing supplies to each other as they hold down bridge to CUHK that was earlier occupied by riot policepic.twitter.com/3HNXyHCfXW
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