Extinction Rebellion protests challenge police....

It sounds very much like Hong Kong. But it’s actually the Deputy Commissioner Laurence Taylor of the Met in London, referring to the XR protests, here, and above.

But whereas in London these moves are accepted, indeed welcomed by harried commuters, here in Hong Kong, similar moves are seen as draconian, authoritarian, a slide into dictatorship.

The police are not innocent. I do wish they hadn’t used the baton quite so freely, especially on the MTR on August 31.  And sometimes they seem to turn up when things are relatively calm, and their very presence ignites tension.  But they are not violent and they’re not “murderers” (I’ve seen some graffiti calling them that).
ADDED: I did a letter to SCMP about it, post above.