Originally Posted by Traum (Post 8958909)

A brief description for those who don't understand the Cantonese dialogue in the video here.

The young man in white had called out to the black cops from across the street, asking them where their conscience has gone. Upon hearing this, one of the cops jeered back, saying their conscience were right there. But some other black cops flipped out / lost their shxt, and immediately gave chase to the young man.

They obviously caught up to him, and went on to beat the living shxt out of him. (The young man later said he had been clubed 6 times, and I also saw at least 1 kick that made contact with some part of the young man.) From the video, you can easily see how the back of the head of this young man has been bloodied, and yet he remained relatively calm, and continued to reason with the black cops, asking for the reasons of the bloody beating they gave him.

Notice how a black cop was filming the young man as he loudly questioned the police about the beating. Had there been any physical contact with the cops (from even a careless or unintentional swing), or any advancement towards them, he would have been charged for assaulting the police. (It's a tactic that has been used repeatedly during these rounds of protests.)

Another black cop was heard telling the young man he is free to file a police complaint if he so chooses. And yet everyone in Hong Kong knows the police complaint process is severely flawed, with a complaint board that is entirely biased against the complaintants. Furthermore, any police complaints that do not include specific police badge numbers will be brushed off as non-specific and therefore un-investigatable. But the irony is, riot police have long adopted the practice since the start of these protests -- a practice that is against their own police procedures and policies -- to not display any identifying designations, including their warrant cards and badge numbers. Therefore, any complaint is guaranteed to end up getting tossed out.

The young man ended up getting taken away by the police in a police vehicle. It is not obvious how the incident ended afterwards.

Originally Posted by pastarocket (Post 8958914)

A warning from the Chinese government. :heckno:

"The End is Coming"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hong-ko...ng-2019-09-01/

For those posting on this thread, I am curious about what you think are the chances that the Beijing will send in the army from Shenzhen and use the military garrison in HK to stop the protest?

What is the endgame?

Originally Posted by pastarocket (Post 8958914)

A warning from the Chinese government. :heckno:

"The End is Coming"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hong-ko...ng-2019-09-01/

For those posting on this thread, I am curious about what you think are the chances that the Beijing will send in the army from Shenzhen and use the military garrison in HK to stop the protest?

What is the endgame?

Originally Posted by hi-revs (Post 8958950)

Highly doubt China will step in. If they did, itd be WW3 and countries would cut ties with China; which would result to a country of economical crisis and possibly isolation from the rest of the world.


Who am I to say tho. China could also rush in at any moment, with no f#cks given, and recreate the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Originally Posted by threezero (Post 8958929)

Carrie Lam's leaked video pretty much confirms that it is just for show.

Seems like China is just going to wait it out. If the protest keep getting violent, it won't be long until the city turns on the protestors.The Chaos is drying up investment and turning business away. Cant fight on a empty stomach......

Originally Posted by hi-revs (Post 8958955)

What I'm wondering is, when this is all over, who's paying for all the damages and police overtime salary etc? Civilians, thru taxes?

Not that it impacts me in any ways, but just a curious thought.

Originally Posted by StylinRed (Post 8958992)

With recession fears, she has to do something finally

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-war-take-toll

And fears of property n office rentals dropping 30-40%

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...prices-drop-30

Market had a slight uptick with news of the move too

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hong-...065813362.html

Originally Posted by Traum (Post 8958870)

IMHO, the pressure on the HKSAR gov and HKPD must continue because that's how you'd get them to crack and make mistakes. And the more mistakes they commit, the more pressure there is for them to reconcile one way or another. (In a sense, what Carrie Lam has done with the Reuters leak now is already a form of reconciliation.)

Originally Posted by SnK1800 (Post 8958999)

The bill is not officially withdrawn yet, it needs to go through the legislative council on Oct9 and Oct16. Keep in mind that she said 動議撤回, which means she will put the bill withdrawal in motion and its not guaranteed. And in order to withdraw the bill, they need to reactivate the second reading..which means the bill can go through at the same time..

Originally Posted by SnK1800 (Post 8958999)

which means the bill can go through at the same time..

Originally Posted by 6793026 (Post 8959022)

I can't see this EVER happening. If C Lam thinks she can pull a fast one and try to pass it thru, HK will riot like crazy.

Originally Posted by SnK1800 (Post 8958999)

The bill is not officially withdrawn yet, it needs to go through the legislative council on Oct9 and Oct16. Keep in mind that she said 動議撤回, which means she will put the bill withdrawal in motion and its not guaranteed. And in order to withdraw the bill, they need to reactivate the second reading..which means the bill can go through at the same time..

Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp (Post 8959012)

Can you imagine if they snuck the bill through and extradited all the protesters to China WutFace

Obviously not going to happen lol

Here's hoping they can get them to address the other 4 demands. Keep fighting, HK!