Unrest in Hong Kong

[Mr.Cyan]

Unrest and rioting in Hong Kong last night at the Mong Kok area.

This happened on the most symbolic day for the Chinese, the first day of the Chinese New Year, ushering in the year of the Monkey. Not sure if the Empire was behind this or it was an occurrence due to the circumstances. Will need to see how the situation progresses.

Hong Kong street hawker protest becomes riot: Mong Kok in lockdown after shots fired, police attacked with bricks and bottles

One of Hong Kong’s busiest districts was in virtual lockdown this morning after a night of violence which saw the police open fire with two “warning shots” as protesters launched missiles and set fires as a crackdown on illegal street food hawkers escalated into what some witnesses described as a ‘riot’.

Hong Kong’s government “strongly condemned” the protesters.

Mong Kok, the scene of some of the worst unrest during the Occupy protests in 2014 , remains tense as unidentified protesters – a signficant number of them so-called ‘localists’ who campaign for varying degrees of independence for Hong Kong – launching sporadic brick and bottle attacks on police, who retaliated with pepper spray.....


The two warning shots were fired by an unspecified number of officers at 2am, Yau said. “Because many rioters were attacking police with hard objects and seriously threatened their lives, there was no choice but to protect colleagues” and own safety, he added.

Police have not ruled out the notion the riot was “organised”, he said, noting that protesters arranged vehicles to transport equipment. Police will continue the investigation.

 

[Eulenspiegel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMbO4v5yiSc

Might be incited by the Empire. Not enough information to go by though. The police is acting rather reserved, firing gunshots up in the air. Imagine the same situation in the US.