With its many choke points located at footbridges, staircases, and corridors, HKU has got to be one of the more defensible universities in Hong Kong.pic.twitter.com/fb4q0hfWM5
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Day 2 of the general strike in response to police violence. On TG, the channel for reporting police movements tells scouts there’s “no need to report on MTR stations” anymore and everyone should just assume “there are police on every MTR platform and at every exit.” This is HK.pic.twitter.com/2GHIiOBBK4
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“You’re stepping in the blood of students” “People are eating live bullets and you’re drinking Starbucks” HKU’s Lennon Wall has expanded to the entire uni. It looks like a campus occupation—although most students have gone elsewhere, leaving just a skeleton crew of defenders.pic.twitter.com/B5A8B41maE
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In Central, Peddar St is occupied from Queen’s Rd down to Connaught Place. The vast majority of the crowd are office workers in their work clothes and simple surgical masks. Expect a police clearance operation after they go back to work and numbers on the ground begin to thin.pic.twitter.com/xeGdnF2Wqi
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A black van just ploughed through the field of bricks and other obstacles on Connaught Rd before breaking abruptly before the more serious barrier on the other side of the intersection. Quickly reversed and sped away. Very lucky no one was hurt.pic.twitter.com/a99KYAFeWF
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Traffic on Connaught Road Central has been brought to a standstill with protesters now blocking the thoroughfare and tunnel. There’s a line of vehicles stretching eastward back to Harcourt Road in Admiralty.pic.twitter.com/ItssCJ1oE3
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Protesters succeeded in turning this airport bus into a double-decker barricade by jamming the tires with bricks and pylons as it was reversing away.pic.twitter.com/mxyLzLJh4E
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Tear gas fired on Peddar St. Protesters scattering. Few had gear and many are struggling to breath.pic.twitter.com/M7FqWLTU0t
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DVRC in Central is full of pedestrians walking away coughing and looking for shelter after police unleashed another round of tear gas on protesters.pic.twitter.com/36sT9bTjSj
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