![]() ![]() Indeed even the police have now admitted they had intelligence days before the attack that something was going down but they chose not to act on the intelligence." "People knew before the attacks," that gangsters would storm the metro station, Evan Fowler, an associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society who was born and raised in Hong Kong, told Business Insider. Two men in black shirts cover their heads as they bleed after being attacked by thugs in white shirts at a subway station in New Territory in Hong Kong, July 21, 2019. Despite footage of police officers patting armed white shirts on the shoulder, the police arrested only six men. Later, a group of men in white shirts, suspected gangsters working with the Hong Kong police, descended on a major train station and beat passengers on trains indiscriminately with metal poles. ![]() In China, speech and media undergoes heavy censorship, and people can go to jail for expressing opinions contrary to the party line.Īfter months of protest that saw Hong Kongers succeed in forcing their government to shelve the bill, another group of protesters stormed the city's legislative building and covered up China's seal, something the mainland took as a serious insult. In Hong Kong, a former British colony, citizens enjoy freedoms not seen in mainland China. As many as two million people may have taken to the streets in June to protest the bill. #Hong kong photo gun at head trialThe bill, which would allow China's ruling Communist party to extradite those it accuses of breaking laws in Hong Kong to stand trial on the mainland, met with swift and intense resistance in some of the largest protests in the history of humanity. ![]()
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