"They've been telling everyone we're rioters. The march today is to show everyone we are not," said a 23-year-old named Chris, who works in marketing and was dressed all in black, including a scarf covering his face and baseball cap."It does not mean we won't keep fighting. We will do whatever is necessary to win, but today we take a break, then we reassess."
Protesters held aloft placards with slogans including"Free Hong Kong!" and"Democracy now!" and umbrellas to shield them from the sometimes heavy rain. A government spokesman said the protests were generally peaceful, but they had disrupted traffic badly. Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One in New Jersey on Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump drew parallels between the violent protests in Hong Kong and Beijing's bloody suppression of student-led protests inHe added that he supported liberty and democracy in Hong Kong and said that he hoped the situation would be resolved in a"humanitarian" fashion."When we were young, we didn't think about it.
On Saturday, however, a demonstration in support of the government attracted what organisers said was 476,000 people, although police put the number of attendees at 108,000.
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