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muriel_volestrangler

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Sun Dec 15, 2019, 02:48 PM Dec 2019

Hong Kong violence breaks out again in shopping centres

Hong Kong police used pepper spray and made arrests on Sunday as small groups of black-clad pro-democracy protesters targeted some of the city’s shopping centres, ending a rare lull in violence.

Flashmob protests and vandalism broke out in several locations. Riot police responded with pepper spray in at least two shopping centres as members of the public heckled them.

A secondary school girl and a 16-year-old boy were arrested in a Sha Tin mall, the pair shouting out their details as officers led them away.

Earlier in the afternoon an elderly woman was knocked over in the same shopping centre after a fight broke out when a shopper tried to stop protesters spraying graffiti.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/15/hong-kong-violence-breaks-out-again-in-shopping-centres
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