(13 Oct 2019) Protesters in Hong Kong popped up in small groups in multiple locations across the territory rather than gather in one large demonstration Sunday, hotly pursued by police officers who swooped in, quickly making muscular arrests.
One of the largest gatherings brought several hundred people together in a mall in Shatin that has attracted regular gatherings.
Protesters were seen vandalising the gates of the metro station and destroying CCTV cameras, whilst others protected their identities by holding up umbrellas.
Police were on the scene within minutes after black-clad protesters set up a makeshift roadblock in Mong Kok, a shopping district of Kowloon, sprinting out of their vans in hot pursuit of suspects.
Police also made a few arrests in Tuen Mun, where young protesters were escorted into police vehicles as the crowd shouted insults at the officers.
The protests gripping the semi-autonomous Chinese city initially began in response to a now-withdrawn extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent for trial in Communist Party-controlled courts in mainland China.
The protest movement has since ballooned to encompass broader clamours for universal suffrage, an independent inquiry of the policing methods used against protesters and other demands.
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