- Title: Tear gas fired as chaos breaks outside Tsim Sha Tsui police station
- Date: 20th October 2019
- Summary: HONG KONG, CHINA (OCTOBER 20, 2019) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS HUDDLING IN FRONT OF TSIM SHA TSUI POLICE STATION / TEAR GAS BEING FIRED FROM ANOTHER SIDE PROTESTERS RUNNING TOWARDS TEAR GAS MORE TEAR GAS BEING FIRED JOURNALISTS IN FRONT OF POLICE STATION VARIOUS OF HOLDING UMBRELLAS WAITING POLICE SPRAYING WATER AT PROTESTERS FROM ROOF OF POLICE STATION PROTESTERS SHOUTING AT POLICEMAN MORE TEAR GAS FIRED ON OTHER SIDE OF POLICE STATION
- Embargoed: 3rd November 2019 07:52
- Keywords: Hong Kong china protester demonstration tear gas police clash
- Location: HONG KONG, CHINA
- City: HONG KONG, CHINA
- Country: Hong Kong
- Topics: Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001B1WGABR
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Thousands of Hong Kong protesters, many wearing masks in defiance of emergency laws, staged an illegal march through the Kowloon district on Sunday which will test the strength of the pro-democracy campaign after four months of unrest.
Police at Tsim Sha Tsui station, on Sunday, fired rounds of tear gas and sprayed water from inside the station as protesters run their grounds.
The Kowloon area has been the site of some of the worst violence in recent weeks and tight security has been imposed along the march route, with metro stations closed and police placing water canons on the street.
Protesters are angry at Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam for what they see as her failure to protect their freedoms from an encroaching Beijing, imposing colonial-era emergency powers, and allowing what they say is excessive force by police.
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