Blind throw of a teargas canister by Hong Kong police around a corner, first hits a reporter—yay helmet!—before teargassing random shoppers. This is one reason why the protests still have a lot momentum. Almost everyone I talked to mentioned police behavior as a key motivator. https://twitter.com/ray_slowbeat/status/1170733270079664134 …
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Hong Kong police seem to have hit the unsweet spot for incompetence and brutality. Having studied protests for a long time, I’d say they rank high in terms of incompetence for crowd control but are constantly upping their misconduct ratings. Every week I was there they got worse.
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By the way, this is why protest safety—for most people—is, in order of importance: helmets, goggles then gas mask. The most serious injuries are direct hits to the head and eyes, and I’ve seen and there a lot of videos of Hong Kong police firing the canisters at head level.
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At this point, many people are quiet mad at the Hong Kong police. One could’ve made a very good study of original Cantonese insults and curses from just listening to the passerby’s yelling at them.
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Also, Hong Kong's protesters appear to me as deeply earnest and non-cynical. It's really a disservice to interpret them through the cynical/weary frame around politics/movements that's common in US/UK. Our own frames/projections to their particular moment don't work well.
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The damage they can do is real, but they will go down in history as the kind of people that rationalized the Gulags or the Ukraine famine even long after being in a position to know better.
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