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Police Intercept Watermelon Farmer "Chan Chi-Cheung" Cosplayer

To remember the 7.21 Attack one year ago, civilians wore cosplays of attackers, including white-clad gang member and water-melon farmer Chan Chi-Cheung, to satirise. The citizen cosplaying Chan was intercepted by police, but released at the end.

On the day of 7.21, a man dressed in a pink tee was recorded to have attacked journalists and civilians in multiple videos. He was later to have been found to look very similar to like Chan Chi-cheung, a water-melon farmer/farm owner.

Source: PSHK, Stand News

#July21 #721Attack #neverforget #neverforgive #PoliceBrutality
#721Attack
Police Enforces Group Gathering Restriction on Group of Strangers

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the 7.21 Yuen Long Attacks. Large amount of police was standby at YOMO mall next to Yuen Long MTR station. Some civilians complained that the police encircled them and narrowed down the cordoned area to make them into a group of 8 people. Subsequently, the police issued a penalty ticket of group gathering restriction (599G).

Source: USP United Social Press
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Legislator Ted Hui Arrested by Large Group of Officers

2120 | Yuen Long
Police have arrested Legislator Ted Hui for allegedly obstructing officers when they conducted several rounds of stop and search on civilians and reporters inside Yoho Mall. He was handcuffed and taken away by well over 20 officers, with multiple police cameras trained on him.

#Jul21 #YuenLong721 #PoliceState
#721Attack
Police Raises Pepper Ball Gun; Identity-Checks Journalists

2140 | Fung Kam Street Sports Centre
Police raised his pepper ball gun. Journalist suspected that something have been thrown from the top.

2143 | Fung Yau Street North
Blue flag has been raised.

2145 | Fung Kam Street, Fung Yau Street North
Riot police pushed forward suddenly towards Fung Kum Street. They shouted to journalists, ”all stand aside and show your press identity cards”, and stopped journalists filming under the reason of “infringement of personal privacy”

Source: PSHK; RTHK
#July21 #NeverForget #NeverForgive #PoliceBrutality
#721Attack
Police Intercepts Dozens of Journalists; Disperses Passers-by

2152 | Fung Yau Street North
Tens of journalists were intercepted by riot police.

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More riot police arrived.

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Riot police commanded civilians to ”dismiss in place”.

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An emotional officer shouted to journalists with microphone and stated that they crossed the road illegally.

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Several journalists could be seen being encircled by riot police again.

Source: Apple Daily; Stand News; RTHK
#July21 #NeverForget #NeverForgive #PoliceBrutality
#721Attack

Growing hostility against journalist witnessed among riot police

On the one-year mark of the 7.21 Yuen Long Attack, police obstructed citizens from protesting with a heavy deployment, repeatedly sealing off areas and conducting stop-and-searches. Their attitude toward journalists has grown even worse than before: journalists are now ordered to remove masks in order to verify identities, have their belongings searched, their ID card information recorded, and their faces recorded on police video cameras.

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Growing hostility against journalist witnessed among riot police

A Citizen News journalist was stopped twice within 10 minutes by two separate groups of riot police, and was even questioned if the news organization was real. Journalists from smaller platforms as well as student journalists were treated as if they were not journalists at all. Nearly 20 journalists from universities or internet platforms were even ticketed for violating the gathering ban.

During searches, police also demanded journalists to stop recording on the pretext of privacy. They have demanded this in other protests before, but much more frequently today.

Source: Citizen News, Stand News, Laurel Chor

#YuenLong721 #PoliceState #FreedomOfPress
#721Attack

Police Officers Target Volunteer First Aiders on 721 Night

A first-aider was fined by the police, on the grounds of violating the gathering restrictions, after he escorted a civilian who felt unwell to an ambulance at Fung Yau Street North.

Police officers at the scene said in an extremely sarcastic manner that they were specifically targeting volunteer first-aiders. They also comment that the volunteer first aiders at the scene were ”fake first-aiders”, and that they were of no help to the civilians present.

Based on observation, it seems like the police officers at the scene were very concerned as to whether the journalists and first-aiders at the scene were 'real' or not.

Source: City University Student Union Editorial Board

#Jul21 #721Attack #NeverForget #NeverForgive #PoliceBrutality
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Peace in the Midst of Chaos

A year has passed since the 721 attack, where white-clad triad members, allegedly colluding with the Hong Kong Police Force, attacked civilians and passersby. While it has already been a year, there has been no resolution to this incident. Justice has not been served.

A piece of paper with the words, "May everyone stay safe in the midst of the chaos. See you at the bottom of the 'pot' (a term used by Hongkongers for the Legislative Council's protest point)" was found stuck to the parapets of an overpass at YOHO Mall.

There is still a glimmer of hope in the midst of this chaos and darkness.

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A man taped an anti-police poster at police back jailed for three weeks for assaulting a police officer;
Hong Kong court said light punishment could make police difficult to enforce the law in the future
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(15 Jul) On the Christmas Eve of last year, netizens initiated a “Shopping with you” rally at Harbour City in Hong Kong. A 25-years old real estate agent put a poster at the back of a plainclothes police and he was charged with assaulting police officers. The defendant was convicted today (15 July) at Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts and sentenced to three weeks’ imprisonment. The magistrate stated the defendant touched others with a hostile attitude which caused battery assault. The magistrate also criticized the behaviour of the defendant silliness like tricks and challenged why he didn’t put a poster on himself first. The magistrate continued to criticize his behaviour was extremely humiliating to police and emphasize that a slap on the wrist kind of punishment makes it difficult for police to enforce the law and orders in the future. The 25-year old defendant pleaded not guilty to attack police officer A outside the shop (no. 24177, 2/F) in Harbour city on 24 December last year.

//Magistrate Chan didn’t believe the defendant statement that he didn’t know that man was the police and convicted the defendant of assaulting of a police officer.

//Magistrate Chan thought the police might “remember wrongly” and stated that was a minor mistake which couldn’t cause any impact to the case. Therefore, she accepted the police evidence.

//Magistrate Chan said even the police dressed in black and wore black mask and people around were not police; however, age, sturdy body and uncompromising attitude of the police and his teammates were incompatible with people on the spot.

//Magistrate Chan stated the defendant had a slap on the back of the police for no reason and without any provocation and police felt pain because of his action. It was lucky that the police didn’t get hurt.

//The number of days he is in custody was more than terms of imprisonment.

Full Translation:
https://telegra.ph/A-man-taped-an-anti-police-poster-at-police-back-jailed-for-three-weeks-for-assaulting-a-police-officer-Hong-Kong-court-said-lig-07-21

Source: inmediahk
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

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