
Follow-up to Tumbi's post - https://www.spikednation.com/videos/hong-kong-police-attack-citizens-train - showing what led actually happened before the cops turned up...
Full description of events, translated from Chinese:
Some people in the carriages of the Prince Edward Station have been smashed into the black man. The MTR Kwun Tong Line and the Tsuen Wan Line have been damaged and harassed.
The MTR five lines will be suspended. Among them, passenger collision occurred in the carriage of the Taizi station. The MTR reported that the Athlon team entered the carriage and arrested many people in the station.
The MTR refers to whether the relevant station can be reopened in the morning due to the police’s search. From the online clip, two groups of dissident passengers confronted each other on a moving MTR train.
The train stopped at the Prince's station, and the black man fell into the car. The two groups continued to confront each other and throw water at each other. Suddenly someone in the car took out a clam and waved to the black man outside the car, which turned into a conflict. After nearly ten minutes of disturbance, someone fired a fire extinguisher into the compartment and the smoke was filled.
Afterwards, a group of Athlon squad members armed with batons and guns entered the platform of the Prince's Station. At that time, there were many passengers on the platform and there was also a train stop. The policeman walked into the train and pushed a passenger out of the carriage, uniformed on the ground. He was wearing black clothes and wearing a black mask. There are also fragments, the Athlon team smashed one person on the platform, then subdued him, then cast a pepper spray into the compartment. There was a bloody head in the compartment.
The MTR announced that there was an emergency at the Prince Edward Station at 11 pm, but it was evacuated and closed. After the station was closed, a large number of police officers entered the lobby. More than a dozen people were subdued by the police. Their hands were tied and taken away. Some people were not wearing black clothes.
The police said that the demonstrators attacked the Dalits in the Taizi station and destroyed the facilities in the station. The police received reports of entering the MTR to stop the violence and arrest the offenders. Due to passenger conflicts in the station, the station started the evacuation procedure and called for help. At the MTR station in Mong Kok, police officers entered the station to chase a group of demonstrators who had blocked the road at Nathan Road. Many places in the station were destroyed, the control center glass broke, the ticket machine was broken, and there were graffiti outside the door.
At Kwun Tong Station, a large number of riot police officers were present and some were subdued. The police searched the unidentified items such as handbags and backpacks of the public in the station and registered identity cards. Among them, a man was suspected of being a reporter and was handed over to the police. The police also took at least one man. At the Hang Hau MTR station, some people pulled the iron gates in the early morning and walked into the station to destroy the gates. After a few minutes of stay, they left.
Comments
(Old Spike)
Are they fighting each other because the ones still on the train don't want to protest?
(Old Spike)
from the footage it looks like it just snowballed from people squishing into other passengers, hard to tell really.
There's a clue in the description...
"Some people in the carriages of the Prince Edward Station have been smashed into the black man"
lol
(Old Spike)
The way they pick their words is nothing short of amazing :)
(Long Spike)