Hong Kong Protesters Clash With Police for Street Control
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Police used batons, pepper spray and water hoses to beat back attempts by pro-democracy protesters to expand their hold on a swathe of central Hong Kong, with the city’s leader warning that tolerance for the two-month protest was fraying.
“I advise everyone who’s still occupying or thinking to return to protest sites tonight, especially the young students, not to mistake the tolerance of our police force in the past as an inability to deal with the protests,” Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said at a press conference today. “Don’t mistake police’s restraint as weakness.”