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Video of police beating protester sparks outrage in Hong Kong
Source: The Guardian
Video of police beating protester sparks outrage in Hong Kong
‘Protect the children’ group contradicts police claims officers were only kicking a ‘yellow object’
Erin Hale in Hong Kong
Tue 24 Sep 2019 10.20 BST
Last modified on Tue 24 Sep 2019 10.28 BST
A video showing Hong Kong police officers beating a man who had been attempting to protect young protesters has given rise to another wave of outrage at police.
Two widely shared videos filmed over the weekend show a man in a yellow high-vis vest laying on the ground while being repeatedly kicked and hit by a group of officers.
On Tuesday, members of “protect the children”, a group of middle-aged and elderly residents who try to act as human barriers between the police and protesters, said one of their group was the person being kicked in the videos, contradicting police claims that officers were only kicking a “yellow object”.
According to the group, the man in the video had confronted officers during a protest on Saturday in Yuen Long, in Hong Kong’s New Territories. He had shouted at police after they pepper-sprayed one of the group’s members, a 73-year-old known as Uncle Chan. Chan had been trying to stop officers from dragging a protester into an alley.
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‘Protect the children’ group contradicts police claims officers were only kicking a ‘yellow object’
Erin Hale in Hong Kong
Tue 24 Sep 2019 10.20 BST
Last modified on Tue 24 Sep 2019 10.28 BST
A video showing Hong Kong police officers beating a man who had been attempting to protect young protesters has given rise to another wave of outrage at police.
Two widely shared videos filmed over the weekend show a man in a yellow high-vis vest laying on the ground while being repeatedly kicked and hit by a group of officers.
On Tuesday, members of “protect the children”, a group of middle-aged and elderly residents who try to act as human barriers between the police and protesters, said one of their group was the person being kicked in the videos, contradicting police claims that officers were only kicking a “yellow object”.
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According to the group, the man in the video had confronted officers during a protest on Saturday in Yuen Long, in Hong Kong’s New Territories. He had shouted at police after they pepper-sprayed one of the group’s members, a 73-year-old known as Uncle Chan. Chan had been trying to stop officers from dragging a protester into an alley.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/24/video-of-police-beating-protester-sparks-outrage-in-hong-kong