The nearly 10 hours of mayhem kept the city on edge.
Rampaging protesters reduced Hong Kong’s streets to charred battlefields on Saturday, setting off multiple fires and hurling petrol bombs at riot police who fought back by firing rounds of blue dye from water cannons and tear gas, as the city marked yet another weekend of heightened violence.
They first began by besieging police headquarters in Wan Chai, throwing petrol bombs at the heavily barricaded building. Riot police again charged at them and fired rounds of tear gas. The protesters dispersed and reappeared an hour later farther north in Mong Kok, in even larger numbers. Still, that did not stop the mobs from vandalising several stations, including breaking a glass platform screen door at Wan Chai MTR station, jamming turnstiles at Admiralty and defacing walls there and at several stops, including Causeway Bay, Tin Hau and Fortress Hill.
But the moment came and went unnoticed as protesters and police faced off in a what has become a regular routine of cat-and-mouse at multiple locations. But soon chaos reigned as radicals swarmed around the seat of government and finance in Admiralty and Central. The mob threw rocks, started fires and shined laser pointers at police officers behind a barricade at Legco.
The mob dispersed in different directions and within minutes was all but gone, leaving the mounds of mangled metal fences, rubbish bins, traffic cones and other junk they had amassed. They used this fortification to start a fire and within minutes, a large blaze was lit. Three explosions were heard as they then threw petrol bombs into the flames.
“I still have faith in Hong Kong’s courts and judges that I will be vindicated even if police move to arrest me,” he said.
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