Hong Kong tumbled into chaos Monday night, with police hunting protesters, protesters and thugs hunting each other and residents trying to protect themselves.
Police hunted protesters, protesters and thugs hunted each other and residents tried to protect themselves at home as fires, standoffs and outright brawls broke out.
More than 200 flights out of Hong Kong’s international airport were canceled as air traffic controllers went on strike along with tens of thousands of others from more than 20 business sectors. “Hong Kong police need to protect Hong Kong people, but now they are only fighting Hong Kong people. What the hell?” said Chan, who was striking from a delivery job.
“We can see in videos that Hong Kong police are together with these white-shirt attackers. We cannot accept a society run by police and thugs,” Lo said. Lam’s words were “nonsense” coming from a government that had favored real estate tycoons and Beijing’s wishes over young people’s futures and disqualified the candidates that pro-democracy youth elected, said Parpmy Tan, 59, a retail company manager on strike.
They stayed just long enough to provoke the authorities, then left at a moment’s notice, chanting and changing locations seemingly at random, but in smooth coordination. Some protesters removed a Chinese national flag and dumped it into Victoria Harbor for the second night in a row.
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