Remember the US State Dept press release that said the US was suspending training the Hong Kong Police Force? The International Law Enforcement Academies (ILEA) that the US was using to train HKPF are headquartered in Bangkok, and gave training to Thai police too. 1/3 https://twitter.com/tommywalkerco/status/1317095007900192769

Refer to this thread for more info. It's insane how many Asian countries' police the ILEA was/is training. Notably, Indonesia and the Philippines are also on the list. And so is literally every SE Asian country plus China, HK, Macau, and Mongolia. 2/3 https://twitter.com/wilfredchan/status/1283398270992056321?s=20

So it's hardly a coincidence that the scenes of police violence against protestors in Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, etc all look so similar. They are all receiving training from the same source. 3/3