The leaderless crowds direct each other via encrypted messaging apps, creating a fluid, adaptable and stubborn mass street protests movement.
in Hong Kong. Eventually, people became tired of not being able to access certain areas of downtown. This time, however, it's different. Periodic disruption is far more palatable, and changing targets mean the chaos is spread around.
Activists have also learned lessons from the government's persecution of the Umbrella Movement's leaders. Then, crowds would more readily show their faces. But mindful of the prison sentences handed to those leaders and China's "It's evident both in their reactive quest for new tactics and their resort to brutal measures, sometimes in a seemingly panicked manner, which has greatly damaged the once highly-positive reputation of the Hong Kong police," he added.
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