A protester was shot, and a man set burning, in a day that is violent Hong Kong’s protests
Week Violence and chaos mars Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, now in their 24th.
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A pro-democracy protester is detained by riot police in Hong Kong on November 11, 2019. Anthony Kwan/Getty Photos
A police officer shot a Hong Kong protester Monday morning, setting off a revolution of violent confrontations into the territory where pro-democracy demonstrations have raged for nearly half a year.
Protesters on Monday had planned for the strike that is city-wide designed to bring the town to a standstill — in reaction to the death of a protester, whom fell from a parking garage the other day and died. Demonstrators have actually blamed the authorities for the 22-year-old’s death, as officers had been firing tear fuel in your community, though the circumstances remain a little murky.
That tragedy was a harbinger associated with physical violence in Hong Kong on Monday, including the sh ting of the 21-year-old protester by a police officer. The incident, which was filmed with a Hong Kong-based manufacturing business called Cupid Producers, revealed a police officer grabbing one protester within an intersection and then brandishing his weapon and firing at an alternative man wearing black colored, his face obscured by a scarf. In the movie (caution graphic f tage), the target tumbles to the street, therefore the officer seems to fire a few more shots, in line with the audio — though it is not clear in exactly what way, due to the fact f tage gets shaky.