Yesterday, Admiralty was cleared: all protest installations were removed, the police arrested 209 people, and the roads were reopened.
Student leaders, including Hong Kong Federation of Students Secretary General Alex Chow (in the blue jacket), talk to the crowd as supporters shower “I want real universal suffrage” flyers onto them.
Bailiffs remove road barricades in Central.
Several kinds of heavy duty tools had to be used.
Media swarmed the removal.
“It’s just the beginning,” says a banner erected before the beginning of the clearance.
“We will be back” was spelled out in balloon letters under an overpass in Admiralty, with remnants of the protest camp were strewn all over the floor.
Protesters watched the removal of the barricades from an overpass.
One of the participants in the sit-in. He was later arrested.
This old man did not participate in the sit-in, but he planned to stay until the end to be arrested.
The police line on the west end of the camp advanced gradually towards the centre of the camp.
Police stood watch to ensure no protesters left the camp undetected the camp after they were given the final warning to exit.
A policeman stands on a piece of a children’s playmat, which the protesters used to sit on or to wrap around their arms as a form of defense.
Protesters sat with their arms linked as they awaited their arrests.
A man chanted “We want universal suffrage” and “Step down CY Leung” with the crowd.
The police began arresting the protesters in the first row.
Police stood watch as the camp was cleared of debris and people.
The aftermath of the clearance, before it was all taken away in rubbish trucks.
Sweepers and trucks alike cleaned the streets within hours.
Broken chairs and tables, remnants of the study corner, were leaped into a pile.
A man holds up a “I want universal suffrage” banner as he is arrested.
Lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung a.k.a. “Long Hair” chants for democracy as he is arrested.
After the camp was cleared, a small crowd gathered outside the police lines and started chanting for democracy.
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