Here's the scene in Hong Kong's Sai Wan Ho district where a shooting reportedly took place early Monday morning #HongKongProtests #香港pic.twitter.com/siC5wYpWGj
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LATEST: Hong Kong police officer fired 3 live rounds and hit 2 teens on Monday morning, Apple Daily reports.
This comes after the 24th weekend of #HongKongProtests saw 88 people arrested https://bloom.bg/2NC0DQp pic.twitter.com/6wggRUi4MC
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"Eat sh*t!" Angry residents yell at a riot police as he comes out of Hong Kong's Sai Wan Ho MTR subway station
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"He's pulled out his gun!" Here's the moment a police fired at protesters in Hong Kong's Sai Wan Ho district
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Hong Kong activists disrupt morning commutes after the 24th weekend of
#HongKongProtests. Here’s what we know: - 2 protesters shot by police in Sai Wan Ho - Some trains suspended from New Territories to Kowloon, Ma On Shan line - Classes suspended in some universities#香港pic.twitter.com/9rRLHjwhbJShow this thread -
"They're all Chinese police." These bystanders at the shooting area in Hong Kong's Sai Wan Ho district say the police are from China and not Hong Kong. More
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Hong Kong's Hospital Authority confirms 1 shot patient is in critical condition and undergoing operation. Police opened fire on Monday morning in the Sai Wan Ho district. More
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"Online rumours stated that Police management have ordered frontline officers to recklessly use their firearms in today’s operations."
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LOOK: Hong Kong police arrest a man whose shirt has been ripped off in the Central area. Passersby in face masks watch on and jeer at police
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“Murderers! Murderers!” Hong Kong protesters surround the police, as the officers warn people to disperse
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HAPPENING NOW: Office workers flee tear gas at lunch time in Hong Kong's Central business district
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Blood, sweat and tear gas. People and protesters help the injured and elderly, as they take refuge in a building. Police just fired tear gas during lunch break at the busy Central business area
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“5 demands, not 1 less.” Police and protesters are at a stand-off, fueled by the death of a student on Friday and another protester shot in a clash between police and protesters early Monday
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Hong Kong police fire tear gas at protesters again. This Monday protest stands in contrast to the mostly-weekend events that erupt in violence in the evening
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Here’s the moment Hong Kong police fired tear gas into the crowd at Monday’s lunchtime protest in the Central business area
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“We are so angry about the police brutality and their violence that happened in the past 5 months in Hong Kong.” This 23-year-old demonstrator explains why she’s marching after police shot 2 protesters early Monday morning
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Emergency workers transport an elderly man to an ambulance car in Hong Kong's Central business district where tear gas was fired earlier
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"It shows that the police are increasingly unscrupulous in using their force and weapons." Here's how this masked protester feels about Monday's shooting in Hong Kong and why the
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“I understand his surgery has been completed and there is no immediate threat to this life.” Hong Kong police explain Monday morning’s events where 2 teenagers were shot
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“He was trying to protect himself and his pistol.” Hong Kong police say the officer who shot a protester was unable to give any warning because it all happened "in the flash of a moment"
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Hong Kong police say they will take statements from all relevant parties and witnesses and go through CCTV and online footage to “try to get to the truth” in the case of the protester shot by an officer. Police asked the public to remain calm and not “spread hate any further”pic.twitter.com/isUGetTXpd
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Speaking at a last-minute press conference, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Monday’s "social disturbances" resulted in "a large number of casualties." She specifically addressed the incidents of a protester shot by police and a man set on fire
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“Violence is not going to give us any solution.” Lam says the government will not yield to pressure to satisfy “political demands” and is focused on returning "Hong Kong to normal as soon as possible”
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A man was doused in fluid and set on fire after what appears to be a confrontation during the
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