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    1. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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      #LIVE: Police have warned protesters to stop all illegal acts and leave Sha Tin MTR station, where officers say they are recklessly damaging facilities, spraying water on the floor and throwing objects http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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      #LIVE: Protesters are going on a rampage in New Town Plaza in Sha Tin, grabbing materials they can find and moving them to the central atrium to barricade access to the linked MTR station http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/2wusQewYz9

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    3. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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      #LIVE: Protesters have set fire to a barricade on Yuen Wo Road in Sha Tin. Police are chasing after the protesters with pepper spray http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/KinCTWZ84w

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    4. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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      #LIVE: Police have raised a black flag in Sha Tin warning of the use of tear gas. Protesters have opened umbrellas in a defensive line http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/KQgCEtMUJZ

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    5. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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      #LIVE: Multiple rounds of tear gas have been fired in Sha Tin http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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    6. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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      #LIVE: About 100 protesters are confronting police at Tsing Yi MTR station. Some set off a fire extinguisher while others dance and tease police who stand behind station shutters and shine bright lights on them http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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    7. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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      #LIVE: Passers-by without protective gear have been affected by the tear gas fired in Sha Tin http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/cgzSmIVdCJ

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    8. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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      #LIVE: More than 20 officers in riot gear are on standby, as some 100 protesters taunt them at Elements mall at Kowloon station http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/mBCOSUvvkU

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    9. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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      #LIVE: Riot police, followed by members of the Special Tactical Squad, advance on Tam Kon Po Street in Sha Tin as protesters hurl bricks at them http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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    10. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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      #LIVE: Developer Sun Hung Kai Properties, which owns New Town Plaza, condemns radicals for the unauthorised gathering and what it says is disturbance to public order and tenants http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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      SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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      #LIVE: The MTR Corporation has announced that its Kowloon station is now closed as trains will not stop for safety reasons http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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        2. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: Police are rounding up their sweep of Sha Tin Park, having divided into groups and marched through the riverside area, where protesters fled to. A group of residents gathers at a bridge to shout at officers http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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        3. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: About 20 riot police are standing outside exit D of Kwai Fong MTR station, while a crowd of about 100 chant slogans at them from across the road http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/rMivXWSyxK

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        4. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: Scenes from Tsing Yi http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/5gqpYpr5OD

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        5. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: In Kwai Fong, a member of the riot squad dashes towards residents who have been heckling them and raises his baton but is pulled back by his fellow officers. A few protesters and onlookers are yelling at police from about 10 metres away http://sc.mp/d7ad4 pic.twitter.com/jEFF49098o

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        6. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: Protesters have spray-painted the derogatory term "the Party's subway" on a footbridge outside exit A of Tsing Yi MTR station, in reference to the Chinese Communist Party and Hong Kong's rail giant http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/xpv0otRF04

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        7. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: In Sha Tin, protesters apparently retreated towards Christ College, a secondary school in Pok Hong Estate, and changed their clothes before leaving. Riot police arrived at the nearby Sha Tin Wai MTR station at about 6.50pm, but protesters had gonehttp://sc.mp/d7ad4 

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        8. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: A small group has vandalised Kwai Fong station and set off a fire extinguisher, resulting in about 20 riot police emerging from the station. Protesters rushed to the steps of the shopping mall opposite, where they are now chanting sloganshttp://sc.mp/d7ad4 

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        9. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: In Sha Tin, clean-up activities are under way at New Town Plaza, which was taken over by protesters earlier in the day. Staff have cordoned off areas with the heaviest damage and are sweeping up glass shards and equipment wreckage http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/iRnCMuasZq

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        10. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: Several dozen riot police are arriving on the scene from the train platform at Kwai Fong station http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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        11. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: On a footbridge in Kwai Fong where the action is now centred, a protester has smashed a surveillance camera with an umbrella, while another device has been covered up with sanitary pads http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/4TxoA1awa2

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        12. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          SCMP News Retweeted SCMP Hong Kong

          #LIVE: Protesters on a footbridge hurl abuse at officers, with chants of "triads"https://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1175742557583577101 …

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          About 30 riot police appear from the side of Kwai Fong station, and approach a footbridge where protesters are Video: SCMP/Laurie Chen pic.twitter.com/YlyFYERf3k
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        13. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: In Kwai Fong, about 30 protesters earlier surrounded a young man, accusing him of being a mainland spy and pointing lasers at him. Some hit him with objects. Before the MTR station closed, protesters had damaged facilities http://sc.mp/d7ad4 pic.twitter.com/yguRlkDzld

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        14. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: Opposite Metroplaza, protesters have spray-painted the popular slogan "Liberate Hong Kong" on shutters of the closed MTR station in Kwai Fong, while the crowd continues to hurl abuse at police http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/ICPvxHXdw3

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        15. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: Riot police appear to be heading away from Kwai Fong station. People are yelling at them to leave and cursing them loudly http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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        16. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: The Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor says it strongly condemns what it called multiple indiscriminate arrests and human rights violations against volunteer medics by police at protest sites http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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        17. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          SCMP News Retweeted SCMP Hong Kong

          #LIVE: In Times Square mall in Causeway Bay, veteran activist "Bull" Tsang Kin-shing from the League of Social Democrats has unfurled a large banner reading "Glory to Hong Kong"https://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1175754426008555522 …

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          At Times Square in Causeway Bay, veteran activist "Bull" Tsang Kin-shing unfurls a banner reading "Glory to Hong Kong" Video: SCMP/Zoe Low pic.twitter.com/13BoIZluSd
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        18. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: The LSD's Koo Sze-yiu says they picked Times Square because business and political heavyweight Peter Woo Kwong-ching, former chairman of the mall's owner The Wharf (Holdings), had shown his support for police http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/82wu7SblwH

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        19. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: Meanwhile, in Kowloon, at Mong Kok Police Station, officers are engaged in a standoff with a crowd of about 70 people. Police have used pepper spray, firing over the wall at a group of journalists http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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        20. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          SCMP News Retweeted SCMP Hong Kong

          #LIVE: A small group of protesters has returned to Yoho Mall in Yuen Long and are singing the protest anthem Glory to Hong Kong and chanting sloganshttps://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1175761740258136066 …

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          0:57
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          Dozens of protesters have returned to Yoho Mall in Yuen Long, singing the protest anthem Glory to Hong Kong and chanting slogans Video: SCMP/Jeffie Lam pic.twitter.com/kLehf9oyLT
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        21. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: Scenes from Prince Edward http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/hGfNlYcjtJ

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        22. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: Kenny Shui, one of the men who hung the "Glory to Hong Kong" banner in Times Square, says they did it to remind more residents to come out and make their voices heard. “If we don’t want to live in 'white terror', we must face up to the situation” http://sc.mp/d7ad4 pic.twitter.com/KmTw86N193

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        23. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: Police say radical protesters had gathered on roads near Mong Kok Police Station, throwing bricks and aiming lasers at officers. They warn that appropriate force will be used for a dispersal operation, urging protesters to leave immediatelyhttp://sc.mp/d7ad4 

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        24. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: Police have now raised an orange flag at Mong Kok station, warning protesters to disperse or they will fire http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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        25. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          SCMP News Retweeted SCMP Hong Kong

          #LIVE: Protesters have started a fire at a barricade they set up in Prince Edwardhttps://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1175773553783758848 …

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          Protesters in Prince Edward have set a barricade on fire Video: SCMP/Laurie Chen pic.twitter.com/hVYAXeliQN
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        26. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: The fire is growing and protesters are whooping and cheering. A fire truck has arrived at the scene, and extinguished the blaze. Riot police are now moving down Nathan Road http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/A3zApSOwqA

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        27. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE:The MTR said Prince Edward and Mong Kok stations have been closed due to situations in the vicinity. Trains on the Tsuen Wan and Kwun Tong lines will not stop at these stations http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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        28. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: More riot police have arrived on the scene. A few onlookers and protesters are gathered further down Nathan Road http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/SeYXSe9lqs

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        29. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: At Mong Kok Police Station in Prince Edward, officers have retreated into the building but one is seen on guard outside, holding a gun. A large number of protesters have returned to the scene, where riot police earlier cleared the crowd http://sc.mp/d7ad4 pic.twitter.com/f5cAm1hIMA

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        30. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: In Tuen Mun, riot police have advanced along Pui To Road near Tuen Mun Police Station, clearing barricades laid by protesters http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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        31. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Sep 22
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          #LIVE: Train services at Kowloon station on the Tung Chung line have resumed, the MTR says. There are still small pockets of trouble outside Mong Kok Police Station and in Tuen Mun http://sc.mp/d7ad4  #HongKongProtests

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