This frame grab from video shows Canadian YouTube creator Toby Gu at a protest in Hong Kong. Gu fears reprisals after posting a video showing a man being attacked and bloodied by protesters.A Canadian man who fled Hong Kong has taken refuge elsewhere in Asia after posting a video of street unrest that prompted threats from protesters – and sympathetic coverage by Chinese state media.
He found it. A video he uploaded to YouTube shows a man being attacked and bloodied by protesters – a “mob,” as Mr. Gu calls them at one point – who go on to smash the common areas of a shopping mall, set fires on the street and block traffic. “I opened that – I was like, wow, that made my stomach sink,” Mr. Gu said. “That’s when I made the conscious decision I probably don’t want to go outside.”He put on a face mask and took a taxi to the airport. But even after leaving Hong Kong, he was recognized at an ATM in another city by a person who told him: “A lot of Hong Kong people hate you right now.”
For Mr. Gu, though, the experience in Hong Kong has had its advantages. His video has won him thousands of new social media followers. Among his fans are Chinese state media, including broadcaster CGTN, which profiled his work, saying he had “inadvertently exposed the hypocrisy of the so-called ‘peaceful protests.’”
Official condemnation has also escalated. “Some rioters took the law into their own hands by beating up bystanders, overstepping the bottom line of any civilized society,” Hong Kong police said in a statement Sunday night.
nvanderklippe Protesterd tried to burn police officer alive!Think twice before you support them!!!
nvanderklippe That should be illegal and be Spying and spreading propaganda around. I think he should be charged with instigating behaviour.
nvanderklippe I hope he gets readmitted to Canada without the 'manchurian candidate' examination.
nvanderklippe They've gone mental in Hong Kong. Everyone is beating up everyone for any reason. The protesters have become vicious, violent and psychotic, along with the communist Chinese. It's all really bad. Wake the f**k up everyone.
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