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Be Like Water: Protest Slogans Still Heard From Time to Time

17:00 | Yoho Mall, Yuen Long
Citizens chanted "Hong Kong Independence, The Only Way Out".

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Citizens Chant Protest Slogans to Show Solidarity in At Least 5 Shopping Malls in Hong Kong

16:47 | Moko Mall, Mongkok
After Shatin's New Town Plaza, Yuen Long's Yoho Mall and Tseung Kwan O's East Point City and Olympian City, the "Shop With You" protest also took place at MOKO mall in Mongkok.

People chanted slogans and sang "Glory to Hong Kong".

#ShopWithYou #Solidarity

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District Councilor Douglas Tsang: Police Arbitrary Arrests Have Injured Civilians

This is an interview conducted with District Councilor Douglas Tsang Tsz-ming, of Tai Kok Tsui South, at around 15:45 near Olympian City on May 16, 2020.

See the full transcript here.

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District Councilor Douglas Tsang: Police Arbitrary Arrests Have Injured Civilians

This is an interview conducted with District Councilor Douglas Tsang Tsz-ming, of Tai Kok Tsui South, at around 15:45 near Olympian City on May 16, 2020.

Watch video here.

Douglas Tsang Tsz Ming (Tsang): From what I have seen, this started at around 1-2pm. Everyone has been standing around chanting slogans without any complications.You can hear them chanting slogans behind me. I don't understand why there are so many police vehicles behind me as if there's a criminal on the loose. But everything has remained relatively peaceful and calm, so I am unsure the intention behind the police's deployment.

Reporter: Did police officers enter the mall?

Tsang: None as entered as of now. But as you could see, all are on standby there. I also saw some police officers standing at the other entrance doing stop-and-search. While I was coming here through Olympic Station, I also saw some officers conducting stop-and-search.

Reporter: Has anyone been arrested?

Tsang: None that I know of.

Reporter: So everything has been relatively peaceful as of now?

Tsang: Yes, although I heard that some arrests have been conducted in other districts. But I think that, seeing that this is a peaceful gathering, there is no need for an overreaction. What I have behind me is definitely an overreaction.

Reporter: I can see around...

Tsang: Around three police vans, two police personnel carriers, and some police cars. Is this really necessary? That's another point of consideration in our observations. Some of my colleagues stated that they saw some CSI mask-wearing plainclothes officers, which may help people distinguish them from the crowd.

Reporter: Do you think that plainclothes officers have become more high-profile?

Tsang: They have been like this for the past few days.

Reporter: What would you think the reason be?

Tsang: I'm not really sure about their intentions.Their ferocity towards civilians have increased recently, as seen from the civilians injured from the arbitrary arrests conducted by the police. This is a very bad situation.

Reporter: Has the situation called for you to partake in negotiations with the police?

Tsang: No, it hasn't, as they are unwilling to enter the mall.Thus we are here only to observe the situation as of now.

Reporter: So everything has been relatively peaceful as of now?

Tsang: Correct.

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Authorities' Suppression of Freedom and Rights Sparks Stronger Discontent Among Hongkongers

18:03 | Moko Mall, Mongkok
Civilians have been chanting protest slogans such as "Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times" in the mall for hours.

Most citizens respected social distancing by standing apart from one another. A citizen displayed a flag that reads "Hong Kong Independence".

The events on May 15 which demonstrated the further suppression of freedom and rights in Hong Kong by Beijing and the Hong Kong government seemingly have provoked the local citizens to voice discontent.

#ShopWithYou #Discontent

Do you know what happened on May 15, 2020 in Hong Kong?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/20820

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Citizens Speak Up Due to Injustice in Hong Kong

18:08 | Moko Mall, Mongkok
Over a hundred of citizens started singing ptrotest song after someone played a song written for the anti-ELAB movement with a harmonica.

Participating citizens at the scene expressed that they spoke up due to the injustice caused by police brutality and the authorities' abuse of power in Hong Kong.

#Harmonica #ShopWithYou

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The Fight Goes On: Protest Slogans Sounded in Multiple Shopping Malls in Hong Kong

Photo album:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/20870

Increasingly, the Hong Kong government has been tightening their grip over pro-democracy activities in past few weeks as the Coronavirus epidemic came under control. Such suppression didn’t stifle protesting activities but sparked even stronger discontent among Hongkongers and sporadic peaceful protests such as “Sing with You” and “Shop with You” spawning in shopping malls have become ubiquitous.

In the afternoon on May 16, netizens initiated a "Shop with You" event in five shopping malls, including East Point City, Yoho Mall, MOKO, New Town City and Olympian City. Soon after peaceful protesters started to chant slogans and sang, riot police charged in to clear shoppers out, sometimes setting cordon lines in the mall, causing even more panic and chaos to both the shoppers and shopkeepers.

Although riot police usually leaves the scene after a while, groups of plainclothes police officers continued to lurk in the mall. In Tseung Kwan O East Point City, 8 civilians were arrested today in the first 30 minutes of the event when there was no sighted complication on the scene. The tension between police and reporters sustained as a plainclothes police officer was seen drawing his baton at a group of reporters at the 1st Floor of the mall in Tseung Kwan O.

In Mong Kok Moko mall and Yuen Long Yoho mall, multiple memos with rhymes and short poems jabbing the police force for the recent incident of police officers arrested with methemphethamines have been attached to the railings for passers-by to read.

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