Hong Kong Protests Started With a Roar End With a Whisper
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The Hong Kong pro-democracy protests that started with a 100,000-strong roar in September ended with a whisper yesterday after weeks of occupying the city’s streets failed to accomplish any of the demonstrators’ goals.
Police yesterday removed the last of the roadblocks at the main Admiralty district protest site near the government offices with little interference. They made 209 arrests on charges including unlawful assembly and obstructing police and allowed 909 people to leave the area after recording their identities, Assistant Commissioner of Police Cheung Tak-keung said, according to remarks posted on the government’s website.