This article says 6000 cops will be deployed to handle "chaos" on Oct 1, rehashing the police& #39;s rhetoric at face value w/o acknowledging that even a peaceful (unauthorised) protest will be deemed "chaotic" & possibly even an act of terrorism under the NSL https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3103401/hong-kong-police-double-officer-deployment-6000">https://www.scmp.com/news/hong...
It also regurgitates police allegations of "online messages calling for attacks on its members & other forms of violence." We of course know the police are prone to making such accusations w/o providing evidence as reason to deprive the majority of the right to peaceful assembly.
As @LawOfProtest has previously pointed out, *even if* there& #39;s reason to believe that some people are calling for violence, this shouldn& #39;t give the police carte blanche to ban an assembly outright by casting everyone as violent. https://twitter.com/maryhui/status/1191322673265033216?s=20">https://twitter.com/maryhui/s...
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