Police should go home and let young riot
- Apologists for violence at shopping centre in which officer’s finger was bitten off are now blaming everyone except the ‘barbarians’ who were behind it
If it weren’t so tragic, the way our young rioters are lashing out at everything is becoming a joke. I am running out of words to describe them. Maybe “barbarians” will do this time. After all, what do you call someone who bites off the finger of a police officer?
Thanks to shameless hypocrites such as opposition politicians Claudia Mo Man-ching, Raymond Chan Chi-chuen and Lam Cheuk-ting, there will always be apologists and media platforms available to justify the most criminal and destructive behaviour: the police made them do it. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor made them do it. Beijing made them do it.
Well, tell the officer who has had his finger surgically reattached that he should blame every official in Hong Kong and the mainland instead of the one who attacked him and those who encouraged the riots.
It’s laughable that protest groups are now calling for a boycott of Sun Hung Kai Properties – after they caused mayhem at the company’s flagship mall, New Town Plaza, in Sha Tin.
They claimed the property giant called the cops on them. But the mall’s management was actually uncooperative, according to the police.
“They [SHKP] did not seem to welcome police,” an unnamed police source was quoted as saying.
“We asked if they needed help and they said no. We asked them for a floor plan of the mall and they declined. We asked if some shops should be closed and they also said there was no need.”
Don’t get me wrong. I hate those property giants as much as the next guy for making flats so unaffordable. If our young protesters were to rally against them for the crazy property market, I might even join them.
But in this case, the mall and its shops are the victims. No apologies from the rioters, of course. Instead, they are blaming the victims.
Others such as Chan and the popular online pundit Stephen Shiu Yeuk-yuen are blaming the police, for chasing the rioters into the mall.
They say the police should have just let them go; the innocent youngsters were just entering the mall to get on MTR services. Actually, many were previously throwing objects from high up on the mall at police on the streets below after being chased into the complex.
Should the police just fold their arms and go home? I say they should, from now on.
Let our young run riot for a noble cause.
