Hong Kong police used pepper spray Friday night to disperse more than 100 protesters singing and chanting pro-democracy slogans in a shopping mall.
Riot police enter the shopping mall to disperse the protesters during Labor Day in Hong Kong, Friday, May 1, 2020, amid the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Hong Kong police deployed pepper spray during a protest in a Hong Kong shopping mall on Friday, as they dispersed over a hundred protesters who gathered to sing and chant pro-democracy slogans.
HONG KONG — The demonstrators sang the protest anthem “Glory to Hong Kong” and chanted “Glory to Hong Kong, Revolution of our times” in the New Town Plaza mall in Hong Kong’s New Territories.As the protesters gathered, police stopped and searched some and later told them to leave, saying they were violating coronavirus social-distancing rules. The police then used pepper spray while dispersing the crowd before cordoning off the atrium of the mall.
The protest was one of several small ones that went ahead on the May 1 Labor Day holiday despite rules that forbid public gatherings of more than four people.
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