Hong Kong chaos as cops fire tear gas, protesters hurl petrol bombs

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Police fired round after round of tear gas as protesters take cover behind umbrellas

HONG KONG — Hong Kong police fired tear gas and water cannon on Saturday and pro-democracy protesters threw petrol bombs in the latest in a series of chaotic clashes that have plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its worst political crisis in decades.

“We have to keep protesting, we cannot let China take back Hong Kong now,” said Evelyn, a 25-year-old asset manager, chanting “gangster” at police outside a subway station across the harbor from the central business area in Kowloon district. The People’s Liberation Army on Thursday rotated its troops in Hong Kong in what it said was a routine operation. Their Hong Kong HQ was the former base of the British military garrison.

It was the same pattern all evening. Police advanced steadily, protesters retreated. Pedestrians yelled out “black cops”, “gangsters” and “get fucked” as police passed. China is eager to quell the unrest before the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on Oct. 1 but protesters vandalized a long red banner celebrating the event to cheers from the crowd.

 

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