Fishball Revolution – What’s wrong with the Hong Kong Police?

Chinese New Year should be celebrated and full of joy. Yet, what happened in Hong Kong was the opposite.

The Fishball Revolution.

On the first night of Lunar New Year, while some people were enjoying fishballs in Mong Kok, police officers got there and intended to the street hawkers. ‘No-one would arrest the street hawker in Lunar New Year 1 – It’d been an unspoken tradition for decades. But the police broke the history.

The customers tried to talk them through but with no success. The dispute was heating over time. There’s been hundreds of citizens comfronting over one hundred of police officers.

Chaos in Mongkok during midnight

During the dispute, the police even sprayed pepper four times at the people who were protesting. That triggers the anger inside the protesters so quickly they threw everything they could grab at them. The police fought back, throwing brick at the demonstraters. They even fired twice. FOR NO LEGITMATE REASONS. What’s worse, a policeman hit a woman’s head with police stick while she was leaving.

The police officer hit the womam to breeding.

You might wonder why were the protesters so hostile? Wasn’t it only a fishball? Well, this incident was clearly a set-off.

Lots of Hong Kong people has hated the police for several years because of previous incidents such as the Umbrella Revolution, in which over 200,000 citizens gathered for 3 months to fight for democracy.

Lots of citizens prostest in silence during the Umbrella Revoltion. Source: wikimedia

They abuse power – hitting people for no reasons, firing whenever they like, or even raping victims in their own office. They are the gun of Hong Kong government, firing at civilians instead of protecting them. They are not our allay.

That’s why the people were outrageous when the police used pepper spray again. It’s a reminder. Of their power abusing. Of their stance against Hong Kong people. The righteous police were long gone. Who’s replaced them? Well, it’s crystal clear.

When the police are merely a weapon of the government, the country is dying.

Hong Kong is not dying, it’s already dead.