A pro-democracy protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask in Admiralty on Oct. 28. (Laurel Chor/Coconuts Media)
Last night, pro-democracy protesters and police clashed Mong Kok. Three men were arrested following the clashes.
The scuffles allegedly broke out before midnight when a protester aimed a camera flash towards the police.
“We saw a bunch of police officers grab [the man with the camera] and take him to the HSBC building and beat him as he resisted,” Sam Bing, a 25-year-old protester, told the SCMP. “I saw blood on his face.”
The following video was uploaded to Facebook by Pak Po, who wrote, “I filmed this footage in person. The police beat up an innocent civilian until he was covered in blood. I’m so angry!”:
Occupy Central tweeted photos taken by a United Social Press photographer allegedly showing a bloodied man getting arrested in front of Langham Place:
Bing said he was later pepper sprayed “right in the face” from less than a metre away: “They could have given us a warning. I didn’t even have my goggles on.”
Apple Daily also reported that pepper spray was used without warning, and that many protesters were pushed to the ground when the police charged at the junction of Argyle Street and Portland
The following video, allegedly showing the confrontations, was posted by YouTube user Man Cheng:
James Bang, an activist who also has a video live-stream channel for the protests, Tweeted that the police charged the protesters without any warning and that they took away his phone:
Another Twitter user posted this Vine of James Bang claiming a policeman had called him “black press”:
Mong Kok was supposedly calm again in the early hours of Thursday, at around 3am or 4am.
In Admiralty last night, a group of about 30 people wearing Guy Fawkes masks showed up demanding universal suffrage, according to RTHK.
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