After the demonstration on 21st July, there were a bunch of men in white, believe to be gangsters, walking around in Yuen Long and beating up everyone whom they believe to had joined the rally earlier today. They had weapons and even enter the platform of the railway to attack people.
People called emergency hotline, the response is ‘Don’t go out if you’re scared.’ Then they were hanged up. Yuen Long Police Station was shut down, clips showing that patrolling police ignored the gangsters’ attacking citizens.
The police had been complained before for use of excessive force, many believe they are ignoring the gangsters on purpose.
Words can no longer express how sad and disappointed I am
This has nothing to do with your political views or taking sides, this is plain simple black and white.
Police is here to serve and protect
Not vengeance through others hands
Spreading this to me is hoping to gain awareness to the rest of the world, freedom is what we should all be born with.
Why? Why do we fight so hard just to be heard? Yet, they are not only getting ignored now getting beaten up too
I mentioned here earlier that Eric and his Leica and his flash made it back to his hometown of Hong Kong for the recent Umbrella Revolution. Eric’s 1000 mega-watt intensity is here focused on the action in Hong Kong surer than any of the stuff he’s done before- there’s a maturity to these images that surpasses his earlier work- even his earlier Hong Kong pictures. Looking at his pictures I always feel that Eric’s allegiance is to photography first and foremost, ahead of any kind of politics or even aesthetics. I suspect that his thrill for it all is dependent on action but never quite about questioning the motives that power these flashes of movement that push him to trip the shutter.
His working style is somewhat unconventional- with his shooting, exhibiting, online & print publishing sometimes overlap- Certainly this show is a hint of what’s to come as he works through this series in its various stages. Here’s to hoping one of those stages is a new photobook.
GOOD LUCK HONG KONG is concurrently exhibited with Eric’s recent series on India, Eye of the Vortex, at Place M.
Hong Kong police cleared a key pro-democracy protest site in ninety minutes, detaining student leaders and pushing back demonstrators in the biggest operation in two months.
Ranks of police officers stood guard at Nathan Road in the Mong Kok district as cleaners mopped up after initial skirmishes held back the morning removal of makeshift barricades and tents. Student leaders Joshua Wong and Lester Shum were detained.
Protesters’ options are shrinking as the police enforce court orders, public support wanes and China refuses to give in to their demands that it allow a free election for the city’s leadership in 2017. An earlier attempt to secure streets in Mong Kok, a densely populated working-class district, failed after demonstrators came back, and the police have vowed to keep roads open this time, setting the stage for clashes this evening when crowds typically swell.
“People are angry and confused,” Winnie Wong, a 21-year-old student, said at the site. “There are just the police, with violence to arrest and frighten people.”
President of Marvel Studios and Producer Kevin Feige, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton and Director Scott Derrickson at the Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange Global Tour Fan Event in Hong Kong on October 13th 2016
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