Name: Why Hong Kong protests and violence are escalating | FT
Uploaded: 2020-03-14T00:22:34.000Z
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We've really seen an escalation in violence

between both the protesters and the police

At around 8am this morning a police officer shot a protester

The protester is now in a critical condition.

We also saw a video go viral of a police officer

on a motorbike ploughing into protesters this morning.

brought a lot of office workers out onto the streets

We saw riot police fire multiple rounds of tear gas

in central Hong Kong at people in office shirts.

It was really extraordinary to walk around central Hong Kong

today at lunchtime and speak to professionals and office

workers who were either on the front line...

decided to join the front line in his lunch break.

He said previously he was a moderate protester

but because of what happened on Friday with the first death

and how angry he is at the current situation

He told me he was petrified of being arrested

And we also saw a lot of office workers loitering

by the front line, expressing support, chanting slogans.

So there seems to be a lot of anger right

now amongst not only the more radical front-line protesters,

but also moderate working professionals in Hong Kong.

we're expecting further escalation of violence

just held a press conference where she labelled

It's important to bear in mind that she currently

has the lowest approval ratings of any chief executive

And the latest polling shows that the vast majority

of Hong Kongers overwhelmingly blame her, the police,

That doesn't bode well for the violence de-escalating

We're seeing a very hard-line stance from mainland China.

Over the weekend, the central government released a statement

saying that the chief executive of Hong Kong and judges

and other people who work for the Hong Kong government all

And they also said there needs to be implementation of Article

23, which are anti-sedition laws in Hong Kong, which

when previously floated saw enormous protests