Hong Kong Police Use Spray as Protesters Try to Storm Poll Site
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Hong Kong police used pepper spray on protesters including unionist and lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan in clashes outside the venue where former government adviser Leung Chun-ying was picked to be the city’s new leader.
The approximately 2,000 demonstrators from parties including People Power, the Social League of Democrats and the Civic Party carried banners calling for full democracy outside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Leung, 57, won 61 percent of the votes cast by a 1,193-member committee of businessmen, lawmakers and academics.