'Now it is my turn': Why Hong Kong protesters continue to gather in the streets | kirstylneedham
But Hong Kong's masked protesters came out to the streets, costumed in black like anime action figures with smartphones. "I'm more scared that if we give up we lose Hong Kong," said a girl, a university student, among a band of signallers on Nathan Road on Saturday night.
As extradition bill protests enter a third month, there was no sign of fatigue among the leaderless protestors who vote on their next actions on social media - they have widened their demands to greater democracy and a reckoning of police violence.Teresa, 58, who marched through Mong Kok in the afternoon said her feeling of guilt wouldn't let her back down - despite recent veiled threats from Beijing that its military could intervene.
A demonstrator spray paints a sign displayed outside the Wong Tai Sin Police Station during protests in the Wong Tai Sin district of Hong Kong."The police are scared and are becoming emotional and angry. They don't have experience facing large protests." In a new twist, it was residents without masks or black costumes, who confronted police well past midnight.
The government condemned Saturday night's protests and said the "illegal behaviours " and road blockage was "getting worse and way beyond the boundary of freedom of expression".Mong Kok businessman Mr Wong, 56, said things "only become dangerous when the police turn up".There is a risk the world may tune out of the ongoing clashes being broadcast live on Hong Kong televison networks.
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