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Aug 26, 2020, 6 tweets

Ex-journo of @StandNewsHK @KwaiLamHo is set to respond to police's new narration of #721YuenLongAttack at YL station at 7pm. Who came before her are 2 teams of police with pepper ball gun and loud speaker, and radical Beijing loyalist Man Shek.

A public area in bus terminal under Yuen Long MTR Station is cordoned off, with radical Beijing loyalist Man Shek inside, and pro-democracy district councillor Ng Kin-wai outside.

Gwyneth Ho @KwaiLamHo said police pointed two accusations on her 1) a women in hi-vis vest exited the paid area and that deteriorated the situation and 2) the live feed was focusing on one side.

Ho said she left the paid area becos she saw many pax besieged in the area by...

...white-clad mob wielding sticks and poles outside. And there was no other reporter at the scene, so she wanted to go to the other side of the station to check on pax over there.

As Ho was speaking, police spoke via loud speaker to give warning.

"I filmed the white-clad, I also filmed ordinary passengers, a pregnant woman in a pretty dress and a mother who was caught off guard when she left the train with her young daughter, I filmed different parties at the scene, everyone can revisit the hour-long live online."

"As one of the few named witnesses of what happened that day, I am obliged to tell the truth. If telling the truth is a crime under this regime, the police can come and arrest me any time," @KwaiLamHo said.

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