Hong Kong protester shoots police officer with arrow during fierce university standoff

Police deployed water cannon and tear gas against protesters occupying the campus in the Hung Hom area of Kowloon, now a key battleground as the demonstrators fight to keep a stranglehold on the Cross-Harbour Tunnel nearby, blocked since Tuesday.

Protestors use an improvised slingshot as blue-dyed liquid is sprayed from an armored police vehicle during a confrontation at Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityA marked change in tactics last week to a"Blossom Everywhere" campaign of blockades and vandalism stretched the police force, shut down large chunks of Hong Kong's train network and forced schools and shopping malls to close.

The protests started against a now shelved bill to allow extradition to China but have billowed to encompass wider issues such as perceived police brutality and calls for universal suffrage in the former British colony. Protestors duck behind shields as a blue-dyed liquid is sprayed from an armored police vehicle at the Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityBlack-clad activists, known as"braves", threw Molotov cocktails at water cannon vehicles as they fired blue water towards them at PolyU, although their flimsy umbrellas were useless against the jets.

Violence is never good

Guys that's going to far

If they keep shooting protesters it's only a matter of time before it's more than arrows.

AndyB_Aussiered

At the same time. HK police used the new weapon to attack the protesters. The two opponents are mismatched. SOSHK savehongkong StandwithHK HKPoliceBrutality

braveprotesters they are showing us how it’s done ✊🏼

It is suspected that HKPolice used LRAD (which HKGovt claimed it wouldn't be used in public meetings and processions) for the first time today.

Note the escalation of violence. I'm wondering if anyone has told these brave students how this will end

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