Catapult Gets a Rest as Hong Kong Students Weigh Protest Tactics
- Protesters used university campuses to snarl traffic, commutes
- Vice-chancellor’s appeal: ‘Leave as soon as possible’
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About an hour before sundown on Friday in Hong Kong, a few dozen anti-government protesters huddled on the bridge over the Tolo Highway, trying to decide what to do next.
For a week, they’d blockaded the bridge, keeping police forces off the adjacent Chinese University of Hong Kong campus. They set up an impromptu security checkpoint for pedestrians and stopped traffic on the thoroughfare below. At one point, the standoff got so intense that the vice-chancellor of the university was caught in the tear gas.