Hong Kong riot police violence is traumatizing the population. Here's why eye witnesses are having nightmares or cannot sleep.
A crumpled tissue dampened with tears lies near Ng Chi Fai as he tells how a routine journey home on the Hong Kong subway landed him in a scene of terrifyingBusiness was slow for the chef Saturday night at the restaurant where he boils, steams and fries the Cantonese dishes his customers love. The 53-year-old, a cook since the age of 18, was fretting about getting home, scrolling through the news on his cellphone as protests broke out across the city.
“The way the police acted in the station that night, I really thought someone would die,” he said. “When they came down the steps, they just started hitting people. They didn’t look to see if you were a protester or not.”Passengers had to jump aside as riot police from the Special Tactical Squad, locally known as raptors, hurtled in. Anyone wearing any black clothing, a color often worn by protesters, was suspect.
“They rushed toward the protesters, just pushing people aside like obstacles, using a lot of force. They pushed me over as they ran by and I fell onto a seat.” A train pulled in opposite, and people fled to it. He saw police beat people trying to flee up the escalators in a crush that included older people and children.
Video footage circulated on social media showed riot police pepper-spraying a cowering group of four, clubbing people with batons, spraying tear gas into a train car, pointing pepper-ball guns into trains full of people, wrestling young protesters to the ground and hitting them although they were not resisting. Volunteers offering first aid were denied permission to attend a person who had passed out.
A Hong Kong doctor from a major city hospital was in Prince Edward station on his way home after finishing an extremely long shift. People were leaving the station peacefully until riot police rushed in and beat people, said the doctor, who gave his name only as Dr. J for fear of reprisals.
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