The so-called exit at Block Y of #POLYU turned out to be a trap of people fleeing campus except for reporters with accreditation’s recognised by the police. Five first aiders and two reporters leaving with me and @alvinllum were stopped on Chatham Road South...
...minutes after we got out from the designated exit from Block Y by climbing over a two meter tall roadblock set by protesters. One plain cloth man was immediately arrested after a group of riot police lined us up on roadside and asked us to hold both hands up...
...A leading officer said loudly to his colleagues, pointing at the plain cloth man, “This one has no accreditation. Wire his hands. Arrest for rioting.” Five other. One of the two reporters who got stopped was from LIHKG News as I heard one officer said...
...”Oh so LIHKG recognises you.” I don’t know If any of them made it out of that cordon line but I have been standing at the other end for about an hour, and I haven’t seen them. In the vid in the first tweet of this #THREAD, you can hear a female officer...
...announcing loudly that was the #LASTCHANCE for people inside #POLYU to leave, otherwise even first aiders and reporters remaining inside would be arrested for #RIOTING. And if you were following instructions at the moment, my experience was in the thread.
