Hong Kong riot police used water cannons to drive back protesters near the Polytechnic University. Police have been trying to disperse the protesters from the roads around Polytechnic, which is the last major university that is occupied by protesters.
Protests in Hong Kong have intensified with live bullets and explosions as police continued their standoff with students at Polytechnic University.
On Sunday, an officer was shot through the leg with a bow and arrow and an armored police vehicle was set on fire as protesters fight back police tear gas and rubber bullets with Molotov cocktails. Hundreds of protesters who refused to leave the university are making a last stand inside, anticipating mass arrests.
Protesters have four additional demands, calling for: the authorities stop calling the protests ‘riots’; amnesty for arrested protesters; an independent inquiry into police brutality; universal suffrage; the withdrawal of the extradition bill. The protesters blame police for the student's injury because he fell off a parking garage in the vicinity of a police clearance operation.
Protesters withdrew to Polytechnic University, a Zaha Hadid-designed building, which normally serves 27,000 students, and started fortifying it.
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