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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Oct 2019

      So after a lot of commotion, and charging, both the riot police and the raptors left. I have one plum left. And the joking or gallows humor aside, there isn’t enough police in the city to handle this many tenacious protesters. Hong Kong’s political problems are too big for this.

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Oct 2019

      So, like many people in Hong Kong tonight, I was stuck on the wrong side of the water. Practically subway lines are shut down, roads blocked, taxis sparse. Some locals offered a ride. This isn’t unusual—there is a network of citizens ferrying protesters and press around.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Oct 2019

      After even some more walking, I’m back indoors! Thanks especially to all the Hong Kongers who have been very kind today, as I hung around and asked questions and walked with them. I hope the teenager who was shot at the chest by the police today recovers fully. #HongKongProtests

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Oct 2019

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      So what’s all this about? The Hong Kong protesters have five demands, but many of the ones I talk to say the most important one for them is universal suffrage. Hong Kongers want something seemingly as simple as electing their own government. https://twitter.com/fight4hongkong/status/1169193013173612545 …

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Oct 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Xinqi Su 蘇昕琪

      This morning in Hong Kong, students are reported to have gathered outside the school of the high-school student shot yesterday in the chest by the police. Sending out the police to solve a political demand is, predictably, leading to a cycle of escalation.https://twitter.com/XinqiSu/status/1179181759675551744 …

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      #NOW Outside the secondary school attended by Tsang Chi-kin, the student shot in chest by HK police ystd, hundreds of current and former students gather to show solidarity and reiterate demands of #HongKongProtests pic.twitter.com/5mL2h6bsgx
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Oct 2019

      A lot of good analyses of the scene where a Hong Kong police shot a teenager with a live round. But the real story is this set-up where increasingly desperate protesters only face police—rather than a political path—whether they march or fight that creates these situations.

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    7. Jeff Jacobsen‏ @cultxpt 1 Oct 2019
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      this is why protesters should not use violence. It only weakens their cause.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Oct 2019
      Replying to @cultxpt

      They had a completely non-violent (though violence isn't the right term but let's use it) lengthy protest in 2014. The leaders were jailed and none of the demands—the right to vote—were met. One can argue tactics or disagree for other reasons but your statement is clearly wrong.

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    9. Jeff Jacobsen‏ @cultxpt 2 Oct 2019
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      So you are assuming that what they are doing now will work? Any evidence for that?

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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Oct 2019
      Replying to @cultxpt

      I don't know what will work, but they don't believe that their current methods produced weakness. I've talked with many marcher-only peaceful protesters and many told me that without the storming of the legislative council, they would have had no success. Marches are ignored.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Oct 2019
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      It's a pretty united movement in its fourth month, still going strong... I can't make predictions about the future.

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