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#FirstHand #Interview #May16
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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#FirstHand #Interview #May16
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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