You may be prosecuted, Hong Kong police tell injured people they ‘used as human shield’
‘Are you brainless?’ asks legislator, as he criticises force for letters sent to those caught up in February’s fatal car chase
Three motorists who were injured after following Hong Kong police orders to slow their vehicles and help stop a car chase which ended with two people dead have been told they may be prosecuted, it was revealed on Friday.
Lawmaker James To Kun-sun, who disclosed the news at a meeting of the Legislative Council’s security panel, condemned police as “brainless”.
To, of the Democratic Party, revealed that police had issued formal notices of intended prosecution to the injured motorists, even as one of them was still in hospital recovering from the crash that ended the chase.
“The officers claimed it was just a routine procedure. How do you think these civilians should feel about it? They were hospitalised because of your chase and you issued such a notice of intended prosecution. Are you brainless?” he said.
