Hong Kong protester shot at close range by police – video

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WARNING: SOME VIEWERS MAY FIND THIS FOOTAGE DISTRESSING. A Hong Kong police officer shoots a protester during the morning rush hour

A video captured by local media shows a police officer firing three live rounds at demonstrators in Sai Wan. The footage shows an officer struggling to subdue one protester before shooting another in the torso at close range.

 

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Shame on you. The key footage was deleted. Fake medias like guardian are responsible for the chaos in Hong Kong.

That police grabbed one man in front and then start shooting. Police did this all things in ACTIVE and in UNNECESSARY way. hongkongpolice HKPoliceMurderers

Fake news

UNARMED HongKongProtestor shot at close range unlawfully by HKPoliceTerrorist. and this is how the other officers respond to it! And BBCWorld just ignore all details of the fact!

Why is there no outcry from our government about this murder? So we can buy junk from China? Or sell them military stuff? They are communist dictators who don't allow freedom of speech & have state controlled media only. We must stand for pro- democracy NOW.

HKPolice shot at empty-handed protesters. Totally unacceptable use of force in a civilized society. HongKongPolice must be stopped and condemned.

While accusing police has anyone thought about the behaviour of those protesters? Is this violence really necessary for the democracy appealing? What are those teenagers doing? The police has their duties to maintain organised street and city. You forgot police also keep u safe

It is definitely a murdering act. The HKPoliceTerrorists is intended to use the gun without any life threatening action. FreeHongKong HKHumanRightsandDemocracyAct

This is not a single case!

MuffinGrain831 the police can choose less harmful weapons like baton or pepper spray as there is no life threatening, yet he choose the most powerful one- making 3 live shots hkpolicebrutality soshk

Yall cannot back a rebellion & condemn violence & death. It's that simple, even as a spectator u must understand the game, side with oppression or side with brutality, injury & death

Today we also saw a police officer trying to knock ppl down with his motorcycle. This is another unacceptable fact showing the HongKong govt and police are uncontrolled and can only be stopped by a global sanction.

Such short distance could kill a person. I see no intention of the protestors to attack. They are just defending themselves for being randomly arrested

someone1214z BREAKING NEWS: HKPolice new tactics - waterboarding to torture arrested protestors

The protester dpesnt even have weapon in his hand but still got shot, the police is a murderer! StandWithHongKong hongkongpolicebrutality

This is murder.

hau_hk In case you would like to check out the full version. Clearly showed that fired live rounds was not necessary. SOSHK hongkongpolicebrutality HongKongPoliceTerrorists HongKongPoliceState StandWithHongKong

He want to kill the white protestor in zero range!!!!!!!!!!!! HKPoliceMurderer HKPoliceTerrorists HKPoliceBrutality

Look close and he pointed the round at white jacket younsger to attack when they were just walking. Only terrorist do this. hkpoliceterrorist fightforfreedom

shiroihamusan HongKongPolice was intended to kill

Instead of pepper spray, HKPoliceTerrorists decided to take the gun out, turn back and shoot unarmed HKprotestors . Do you see why they are the finest in Asia? If not, watch below video as well

This is not minimum force as described by hkpoliceforce

their kid will repay their debt

Yet the police lied on the presser saying the protester wanted to snatch his gun in the first place. The video tells the truth.

Look carefully, the young man was unarmed. The only reason to pull the trigger is to hurt someone badly. Gunfire HKPoliceState MURDERER

The Hong Kong police have been mad!!! They are extremist terrorists, lose their humanity, and arbitrarily kill citizens, especially students!

HKPoliceTerrorist tried to murder a young protester with no legitimate reason, the Policeman who shot live round had suddenly pulled the pistal under no attack, this police picked the man in white at random & then shot live round at the man right next to him.HKPoliceTerrorism.

someone1214z HongKongPolice definitely have no reason to shoot an unarmed hongkongprotestors HongKong

Here’s a slow motion replay for your article. In short: HKPolice fired live round at an unarmed protester’s abdomen in point blank range. He’s still in critical situation in ICU.

Hong Kong Police murdered Hong Kong people again 7.21 in Yuen Long 8.31 in Price Edward 10.1 in Tsuen Wan 11.11 in Sao Wan Ho HongKongPoliceState HKPoliceTerrorism

chiya_heisuke if you still believe HK police is doing lawfully, think about what happen in XinJiang? If re-education camp is so useful, why there are so many control over the filming of XinJiang? Why there are people around reporter? Today XinJiang, tommorrow HK.

HongKongPoliceKillsCitizen

enckeranger They are murderer. HongKongPoliceTerrorism

The police kidnap the man in white jacket then shoot at the black bloc protester. It is the police who created a scene which seems life-threatening but the truth isn’t.

Why are you giving publicity - that is what keeps the anarchist destroying the country. This is not democracy fight.

Murderer. Absolutely unnecessary. HKPoliceTerrorists

America need to cancel the USA-HK policy act. SOSHK

HongKongpolice keep moving the victim after gun shot and he’s already unconscious! That’s a murder! soshk PoliceMurder policestate PoliceBrutalityHK PoliceTerrorism

Biasedly edited video! The rioter was trying to grab the gun!!!

Unlawful use of gun! If the boy dies, that HK police is the murderer! Pray for that boy!

Hk2019Free HK is going thru HumanitarianCrisis SOSHK No doubt CCP is staging the HK version of Tiananmen Square 89 with everyday terror, disappearances, “suicides”, premeditated “conflicts/accidents”etc.

No weapons and shot a live round!

Hk2019Free

STommydx PoliceTerrorism PoliceBrutality PoliceState SOSHK HumanitarianCrisis

The protestor already showed his bare hands, but the police still grabbed him by his side and then shot another protestor without warning. THIS CAN BE LEGITIMATE !

Yes, and the youngsters have no weapons, just bare hands !!! HongKongPoliceKillsCitizen HongKongPoliceTerrisom

It's 100% chinazi Style ~!! CCP kill everyone whose political stand is not the same as them PoliceState PoliceBrutality antichinazi BoycottChina

another video shows that the HKPolice are murderers

The HK police use the live gun without any guideline! They are just murdering civilians!

UK as signatory of Sino British Joint Declaration please act over Communist China ‘s violation of legally binding treaty and human rights in Hong Kong. StandWithHongKong BoycottChina

Why do all the HK protesters fly USA flags and use 2016 pepe memes? Is it natural, or a bad CIA op against China?

one word: UNACCEPTABLE

11.11 ,police started their massacre in Hong Kong. Please StandwithHK and stop the police brutality.

why aren't you posting in the article 8the moment where the officer pulls out his weapon and goes to contact ? this is clear intent from officer to escalate the situation which ended up with 2 shot

The guy is unarmed, he even didn’t reach to that police. Why shooting without warning first? HongKongPoliceTerrorism HongKongPoliceState

Insane It is not necessary to shoot protestors

HK police want to kill all the citizens..They are totally out of control. God Bless Hongkong..HKPoliceTerrorism HKPoliceState

Hong Kong police is criminal

1) The video showed the protester swatting the gun away and was shot, yet Hong Kong police's official statement was he was trying to 'forcibly take' the gun. 2) The police's first response to the incapacitated gunshot victim was to detain and move him, not first aid. StandwithHK

Stop protesting then especially aggressive protesting as it is really rioting

Funny seeing all those comments here. Guys if u watch the whole video, u ll see the cop suddenly turned around and pulled out the gun without any protestors on the road. Its the cop who initiated the incident.

He just avoid the gun point to him. He is unarmed. Police with one hostage on hand.

What’s wrong with the Hong Kong police? They are clearly out of control and forgot what was told during the training regarding the appropriate use of force!

lamml_ It was insane, why HongKongPolice need to use the highly destructive bullets to shot to the armless people? The HongKongProtesters want to rob and kill now? You can arrest him is not shoot the kid!? PoliceState without any consequences. Please StandWithHongKong

为何剪掉暴徒夺枪画面?都来看看这家假媒体的嘴脸

They even tried to move the wounded after the shoot.

And he still in critical condition. HKPoliceTerrorism

We cannot tolerate HKPoliceBrutality anymore. SOSHK HKprotesters

This is not okay. Never.

The hongkongpolice is trying to kill the kid without being threatened SOSHK

SOSHK And after the protester is shot, the police moved him around unnecessarily instead of letting him get first aids. They just want him to die!!

the video was cut. the part of man in black intend to rob policeman's gun.

The protester tried to rob the gun first and the policeman was interfered by another protester. If he took the gun from the police, what would happen?

the protestor is unarmed but the Hong Kong Police murder him anyway StandWithHongKong

Why do you stand with the terrorists, you should send out the complete video, and you should also send a video of Hong Kong terrorists burning civilians.

HongKongPolice simply gun shot the young man, who is in fact a student. Save our young people. StandWithHongKong

Police no longer aim to arrest protesters, but aim to kill them all. 😩 Independent Investigation must be conducted!😤 StandWithHongKong HongKongProtest

Both protestors are unarmed and did not actively attack the police. HKPoliceTerrorists HKPoliceState

The protestor had no weapons, why the police shoot him? He is NOT robbing the gun, he just tried to avoid from the gun! It is a normal reflex!

Hong Kong Police are murderers😡😡😡 大家用多啲 HongKong 呢個tag打擊五毛散播啲假同片面新聞吖。科勞手足 HKPoliceState

Please don’t justify what the HongKongPolice did was OK by merely comparing them with the situation in other countries. Wrongdoings committed by law enforcers should be arraigned and that’s the reason why HongKong people are persevering on an Independent Commission of Inquiry

The protestor is not armed and without immediate threat to the police’s life. This is murder and should be criticised.

They start killing us hongkongpolicebrutality UK must save Hong Kong by launching globalmagnitskyact

The policeman was not facing any danger at the beginning but he still took the gun out! The protesters didn’t have any weapons! How could you guys say the policeman was in danger and it’s urgent to shoot?

The policeman is definitely to be blamed as he shot the unarmed protester without life-threatening ground. His training should have taught him better as to how to handle the protester.

I would like to know why a well trained police was easily threaten by a young man who was unarmed.

No one is going to attack the policeman while the policeman was ready to take his gun out. Man in black is trying to save the man in white. Seriously is there any phrase called ‘minimum force’?

HongKong HongKongPoliceBurtality

How were these officers trained? Were they formal officers? HKPoliceMurderer HKPoliceTerrorism HKPoliceBrutality

Seriously doubt about these police's mental and logic. A full geared police afraid of a PVC pipe, a traffic police's life threaten by an unarmed citizen...

OK,so why a man with nothing has to be shot at close range in the public without warning? And he's on the sidewalk with other citizens around,what if other people get hurt by that? Has this police ever think of that? HongKong HongKongProtests

No obvious attack, not armed. What is Hong Kong police's justifications for opening fire at such a close range in the situation?

Po9Mon “again”

The unedited video clip indicates a situation under which the policeman was in his full right to fire the shot. In fact it is a revealing sign of the true nature of these 'protests', that a 'bare-handed protestor ' actually dares to grab a policeman's gun.

Where is the full video? Why just show only shoot video, cut the rob gun video? Fake news. How shame

Why edit the video? Why cut the part that the black man try to rob the gun? The guardian editors just chose the part they want people to see and spread. What a shame of journalism.

And he's still in critical condition...

The boy ‘s situation :

The hongkong popo have gone insane. Now they don't hesitate fire real bullets during rush hours, and tear gas at schools where students are still in there! They are the source of violence. Please help hk. standwithhongkong

It's so sad to see this violence. To be balanced, you need to cover violence that's happening today on both sides.

noobmaster1025 And the police refuse first aid's assistance, dragging him after the fatal attack

the govt is not doing anything to stop it, but they will try to escalate it anyway

The guy was trying to rob the gun

If they don’t try to rob police’s pistol,why police choose to shoot them?police just save themselves in danger!

Well done!

billbeleven The youth is UNARMED. HKpolice = MURDER HKPoliceTerrorism HKPoliceBrutality HKPoliceState HKPoliceMurderer StandwithHongKong HongKongProtests

Why don’t u show the whole video?!he tried to grab the gun from the officer,he would be a dead man in any country,stop manipulating !

The protester didn’t carry ANY weapon and hes doesn’t even have protective gear!! That riotous police just suddenly pull out his gun and shot at him!!

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Hong Kong Police is crazy.

Lunchtime in Central, HK

And Hong Kong Police terrorised throughout the business hub at noon. Many office workers injured

Please save us. HK police is killing everyone here!

They’re starting a massacre in HK. People have been protesting against police brutality in different business districts during lunch break

It was not a protestor, it was a thief trying to rob a policeman of his gun...

I saw a policeman besieged by demonstrators and he was forced to shoot.

in face of such close threat by protester, how elegant do you think HK police man should react? might be no shoot by gun, but never to be blamed of wrong doing! consider same occasion if encountered by US police.

No police officer should ever be threatened by a protestor. Shoot if u may for yo safety. No news here

jacknormie

I don't think China's making a clean sweep of anything. If they want to wake up, they're going to find a complicated real world outside of Confucian idealism. Here. Frankly put: oops.

ACAB

So this is how you deal with a protestors that didn’t even carry any weapon?HongKongPolice This officer just rushed into the crowd and shoot any one they like? HongKong hongkongprotestors

You can clearly see the thugs trying to grab the police guns.

Aloha88617098 HongKongPolice murderers for sure!!!!

Who is the police?

These black-clothed, mask-wearing protestors are anarchists and hell-bent on disobedience and destruction of the HK city. They know the risks they are running.

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Unfortunately, this is when you know the resistance is effective.

This is crazy and heartbreaking. The protesters got shoot didn’t cause any threat to the police clearly. Call for international sanction for their improper use of guns and violence!! StandWithHongKong HKPoliceTerrorism 5DemandsNotOneLess

Hey thestevennabil, it seems people worldwide have no idea what is going on in your country. Maybe if you could show them some pictures and/or videos?!

This is MURDER!!

finditwronginyourbackyard Hypocrites

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Tempesta585, does this get you excited?

Help notice what is happening in HK We are now in an emergency We fight against injustice StandWithHongKong HongKongProtests HongKongPoliceTerrorism

This needs to stop and be investigated!

Murders!

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