Chaos consumed Hong Kong’s international airport as formerly peaceful pro-democracy protests took a turn toward vigilantism, with thousands of protesters blocking passengers and occupying terminals. lat.ms/2Z3Xo6S
Protesters forced the airport to suspend all check-ins for the second day in a row, later clashing with riot police and attacking suspected undercover cops in their midst. 📸: Kin Cheung/AP lat.ms/2Z3Xo6S
Angry scuffles broke out in the late afternoon as hundreds of protesters surrounded two security gates, sitting down so that no travelers could get to the security check and their boarding gates. 📸: Laurel Chor/EPA/REX/Shutterstock lat.ms/2Z3Xo6S
Their methods may have antagonized the international visitors they were trying to win over, just as Beijing is escalating a propaganda war aimed at portraying the protesters as “radicals” under foreign influence and deserving of crackdown. 📸: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images
Hong Kong is in its 10th week of public unrest. What started as a peaceful movement against an extradition bill perceived to threaten Hong Kong’s rule of law has become a decentralized series of near-daily confrontations between protesters and police. lat.ms/2Z3Xo6S
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