A few months ago @washingtonpost began receiving docs from concerned Hong Kong police officers. The more than 100 pages detail guidelines for use of force and training, but have been repeatedly broken/ignored by officers during months of protests. washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/…
In Sept. a journo was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet. Training manuals show officers are taught that using lethal weapons can indeed be lethal. Here for example is a graphic showing officers that the “lethal target zone” for rubber bullets includes the head. 
Guidelines state that tear gas "not only affects the target [but] can also spread to nearby and even relatively far-off places and people," and warns that in areas with “densely packed offices” there are higher risks of using it. Police have fired more than 16k rounds of tear gas
As part of this investigation, the @washingtonpost is publishing the long withheld internal Hong Kong Police Force use of force guidelines (Chapter 29) so the public can better understand how the department operates. You can read/download the document here washingtonpost.com/context/read-t…
Lots of people put a huge amount of time into this project, including a bunch of super hardworking HKU law students who helped to verify, geolocate and track down sourcing for nearly 70 videos of police incidents. Big thanks to @LErnst_HKU and her team.
Of course thanks to all the journalists who filmed, and continue to film, the protests despite the risks and difficult working conditions. Many, many of the incidents reviewed were filmed by extremely courageous Hong Kong journalism students and freelancers.
