- Title: Hong Kong protesters smash metro stations after rally against police violence
- Date: 2nd October 2019
- Summary: HONG KONG, CHINA (OCTOBER 2, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PROTESTER HITTING TRAIN TURNSTILES VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS DESTROYING CCTV CAMERAS COMMUTERS VARIOUS OF DESTROYED TURNSTILES VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING PAST HONG KONG, CHINA (OCTOBER 2, 2019) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE GATHERED AT PLAYGROUND WITH ARMS IN AIR PEOPLE SINGING, HOLDING UP TORCHES ON MOBILE PHONES PEOPLE CHANTING (Cantonese): "STRIVE ON" PLACARD READING (Chinese): "STOP SHOOTING AND KILLING OUR CHILDREN" AND (English): ''DON'T SHOOT OUR KIDS'' VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING, HOLDING SIGNS AND HANDS IN AIR MAN CHANTING PROTESTERS HOLDING PALMS OF THEIR HANDS OUTWARDS TO SIGNIFYING THEIR FIVE DEMANDS VARIOUS OF PROTESTER MAKING ORIGAMI SWANS (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROTESTER, DORIS KONG, SAYING: "Yesterday, the police do something for (to) the student, and I saw it on live, and I feel very sad for that, and last night, police have said something, it's a lie to Hong Kong. So, I feel if we don't come out today, we can't come tomorrow." ORIGAMI ARRANGED TO READ (Chinese): "STRIVE ON HONG KONG'' ORIGAMI PEOPLE GATHERED HOLDING PLACARDS POSTER READING (English): "3CM FROM HEART" (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROTESTER, HENRY YU, SAYING: "I think every Hong Kong people will not afraid of this brutality of the Hong Kong police. We will keep standing up and telling the government which are our five demands and keep protesting until the real democracy, and we have the real freedom in Hong Kong." PROTESTERS HITTING STORE BANNER MAN WALKING PAST WITH ROAD SIGN AND STICK MAN'S T-SHIRT READING (Chinese): "STOP SHOOTING AND KILLING OUR CHILDREN" AND (English): ''DON'T SHOOT OUR KIDS'' / MAN CHANTING PEOPLE WALKING PAST
- Embargoed: 16th October 2019 18:25
- Keywords: Hong Kong vandalizing rally protest
- Location: HONG KONG, CHINA
- City: HONG KONG, CHINA
- Country: Hong Kong
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA001AZEKBBB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Hong Kong protesters destroyed MTR metro stations on Wednesday (October 2) as anger grew against the police, a day after an officer shot a teenage demonstrator point-black in the chest.
During anti-government protests on Tuesday (October 1) on China's National Day, Tony Tsang, 18, was shot in the chest as he fought an officer with a metal pipe in Tsuen Wan district during some of the most violent clashes in Hong Kong since protests escalated in mid-June.
Hundreds of protesters gathered at a playground to show their opposition against the shooting, but also to push for democracy in the former British colony.
Police have said the officer who fired the live shot was under serious threat and acted in self-defense in accordance with official guidelines.
Protesters have previously been hit with anti-riot bean-bags rounds and rubber bullets and officers have fired live rounds in the air, but this was the first time a demonstrator had been shot with a live round.
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