#NOW at Pacific Place in Admiralty, security guards of the mall put on notice asking people not to shout, display banners or flags and not to obstruct passage but the growing crowd on the footbridge responded with loud chanting of slogans.
Oral warning from police of sweep and arrests if people continue to join the “unauthorised assembly” outside the Pacific Place mall.
One year ago young man Leung Ling-kit fell from the mall after hanging some protest banners. People gather today to mourn anniversary of his death
This man in yellow raincoat was just released after police search. He showed a paper with the words 永垂不朽 (to be remembered forever).
Police gave a second warning at the crowd citing both the public order ordinate and the ban on group gatherings but people responded with slogan chanting.
At least two women and one man are being searched outside Pacific Place. The officer searching the man shouted loudly at him.
On the pedestrian outside Pacific Place, a flower bed was created and is growing around a tree near the spot Leung dropped. People in black outside and wearing white ribbon came in silence to dedicate flowers while police stayed nearby and intervened from time to time.
Inside Pacific Place, about 200 have gathered and been chanting slogans ranging from #5DN1L to Hong Kong independence.
“We are not rioters,” the banner says.
Flow to dedicate flowers for Leung Ling-kit outside Pacific Place is non-stop.
The queue of people waiting to dedicate their white flowers to Leung Ling-kit extended from Pacific Place to High Court and is still growing towards Central.
The queue is now extending uphill along Cotton Tree Road. Whoever comes late just walk quietly towards the end of tail and becomes a new bone on it.
Pacific Place left only one door on the ground floor open for people to get in and out of the mall. Large flow of people has been coming for nearly two hours to dedicate their flowers and they all patiently used this only gateway.
A long list of light boxes commemorating people passed away during the #HKProtests - with the last two dedicate to HK’s rule of law and #OneCountryTwoSystems - have been erected at the edge of a flower bed outside Pacific Place.
The queue has grown into hundreds of meters long as the tail is now extending outside the Hong Kong Squash Center. There are well over 1,500 people standing in line.
When an ambulance needs a way...
Back inside Pacific Place again and the crowd did not shrink but grew bigger instead. The structure of the mall created impressive echoes of people’s singing and chanting.
“HKers, don’t give up” the words on the raincoat said.
Sentiments at recent rallies, despite police bans and dispersals, feel like bubbling lava - large turnout of gearless people under intense SS and more explicit collective expression for independence.
“Don’t get accustomed,” another banner in Pacific Place said.
Two girls are showing this luminous yellow raincoat and a sketch book of bilingual slogans to the long queue moving slowly towards the flower bed for Leung Ling-kit outside Pacific Place.
“National security law is a law that makes the state leaders feel secure” the sticker says.
John Tsang, former financial secretary who lost to #CarrieLam in the last CE election despite greater popularity due to his dove image, is now part of an insurance ad “time to save yourself”. But people wrote on his face “Hong Kong independence the only way out”.
Candles were lit along the line of light boxes mourning people passed away during the protests, Hong King’s rule of law, and one country two systems.
The wait is long and the night is dark but Hong Kong people have developed their code of unity.
10.10pm, end of queue was outside Hong Kong Park entrance at Cotton Tree Road, according to Mr Queue Tail.
10.30pm, queue tail down on Queensway
When One Country Two Systems is lost...
10.53pm last 100m
About 11pm the last batch of people dedicated their flowers to Leung Ling-kit and those remained sang Glory To Hong Kong to mark the end of tonight’s mourning.
Passengers of a bus passing by Pacific Place.
Minutes after the last few people dedicated their flowers, riot police who have been staying in their cars for hours tonight came out and gave PA warning of ban on group gathering. They urged people to leave ASAP.
This man is telling to police that porple have done nothing tonight but to remember Leung Ling-kit and they are ready to leave. “People are scared once you are out. Could you give us just one night?”
Dozens, mostly reporters, are still on the pedestrian outside Pacific Place while police continue to warn of violation of group gathering ban and issuing fine tickets.
Shield banging riot police sweeping from Wan Chai direction.
Riot police pushed until the flower bed is completely behind them. They heckled loudly and angrily at anyone trying to talk to them. “We gave you enough of time but you just keep playing here,” one officer was just heard.
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