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Hong Kong police threatened to use lethal force to arrest anyone who doesn't surrender at a nearly 24-hour standoff at a besieged university. Protesters have set fire to 2 bridges. Lawmakers have scrambled to stop riot officers from charging inside. nyti.ms/359qWTV
Here's footage of police officers firing tear gas and spraying water cannons at demonstrators as they continued a multiday occupation near Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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Revisit our look at how students at Hong Kong’s universities and their supporters have been bracing for police confrontations in increasingly elaborate ways: “I didn’t think I would be mixing these chemicals with my own hands, but I am here to learn." nyti.ms/37cbkRr
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Hong Kong Extradition Bill

Tear gas envelops heart of city
as protestors flood downtown
Hong Kong
in protest of China's
extradition bill,
which presented city’s leaders
w ultimatum:
back down, or risk violent clashes.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
So, wat's the reason?🤔

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Marchers well-organized + coordinated,
dropping umbrellas from overhead walkway
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4 those in streets below.
Others tied metal barricades together
2 ward off any potential police advancement.
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I keep telling y'all.

The police have no duty to protect anyone.

Ever.

IT ISN'T THEIR JOB.

If the police actually protect someone from danger, it's a favor (or an accident).

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Law enforcement leverages the idea that you need them to save your life, and that's why you need to let them do whatever the hell they want whenever they want.

But the police are not in the life saving business or the protection business.

Those are occasional off label effects.
The idea that it is a police duty to protect you from a violent attacker is roughly the same as presuming it is a duty of firefighters to retrieve your adventurous cat.

It just isn't. Nobody will ever hold them responsible for not doing so.
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