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Jun 4, 2020, 13 tweets

#NOW a group of masked youngsters are hosting one of a number of street booths on Great George St giving away candles and staging a silent protest again police brutality.

The warning PA keeps looping and telling people they can risk committing unauthorised assembly and increase public health risk if they join the vigil in Victoria Park

Police media liaison team is with the major group of journalists in Victoria Park, next to the fountain facing the Great George St. PA tells people to leave via Tin Hau.

#BREAKING barriers surrounding football pitches in Victoria Park are pushed down and people enter to light candles in quiet sit in.

When the barricades intended to keep people away from a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park are down...

Faces in Victoria Park #june4

Though barricades are down and a gateway is clear, quite a number chose to stand back a bit

What people bring along them to the #june4 vigil in Victoria Park

Edward Leung is not forgotten. #june4

“For truth, fight till the last. For freedom, fight till the last. For life, fight till the last,” #june4 vigil organisers chanted.

One minute of silence at 8.09pm - commemorating 1989 - followed by waves of various slogans, ranging from “democracy for China” to “Hong Kong independence the only way out”

Walls of candlelight are built on metal gate #june4

Light, and more light #june4

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