#Thread: Independent videographer Alex Chan captured via GoPro the moment when a violent conflict took place in Mong Kok on May 10th night. In the footage, at least three people have been pushed by riot police to the ground. Two are seen crawling on the ground. #HongKongProtests
Soon after the abrupt arrest, reporters and other people are encircled by police who hem them in with batons and shields and threaten to use pepper spray. Many raise their hands, a sign of surrender. Many also scream when pepper-sprayed by police. Alex’s camera is also affected.
While reporters and other people are being kettled in a crowd, several reporters are seen also raising their hands to indicate that they surrender to the police and sitting on the ground. Meanwhile, a police is seen yelling at the reporter: “Though you are a journalist, so what?”
Reporters are seen kneeling down while police appear to be preventing reporters from filming. One policeman chant: “It is not your turn yet…… Who start recording? Turn it off!” Another policeman appears to be stopping a reporter from treating the pepper spray stuck on his skin.
“Kneel down! Here!” one policeman chants at a reporter. With their face facing a wall, reporters appears to be screaming in pain, possibly due to irritative pepper spray. #HongKongProtests #antiELAB
Reporters are booked and recorded one by one and they have to say their name aloud in front of a camera before they are released. Alex Chan, owner of the footage, says the police recorded their ID card and their face.
