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Wan Chai, Central, Sheung Wan July 21
“The demonstration began peacefully to renew calls for an independent inquiry into police brutality, alongside other pro-democracy demands. Clad in their usual black, the demonstrators began gathering at 3 p.m. in Victoria Park for a march towards Wan Chai, a busy commercial area. The organiser of the march, the Civil Human Rights Front, said 430,000 people participated.”
Casey Quackenbush / Aljazeera
“By nightfall, some protesters had defaced a crest of the Chinese government at the liaison office with eggs and black ink, and had sprayed the building’s exterior with graffiti. Shortly after 8 p.m., about 100 riot police officers, some carrying guns with plastic rounds, approached the liaison office and dragged away metal barricades that protesters had placed in the road.”
Mike Ives / The New York Times
“One of the tools used by both protesters and police on the streets of Hong Kong are high-powered lasers and blinding lights, shone through thick clouds of tear gas to confuse each other and as an additional tool to conceal their identities and activities.”
The Straits Times