Police senior superintendent Chan Tin-chu holds up a photo from the night of the Yuen Long attack on July 21, 2019, during a press conference on August 26. Photo: Nora Tam Police senior superintendent Chan Tin-chu holds up a photo from the night of the Yuen Long attack on July 21, 2019, during a press conference on August 26. Photo: Nora Tam
Police senior superintendent Chan Tin-chu holds up a photo from the night of the Yuen Long attack on July 21, 2019, during a press conference on August 26. Photo: Nora Tam
Albert Cheng
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Albert Cheng

Hongkongers won’t tolerate any police spin on Yuen Long mob attack

  • Public anger over a police superintendent’s attempt to write off the violence on July 21 as a fight between two groups of people, despite widely seen footage showing otherwise, can only be pacified by an independent investigation into what happened

Albert Cheng
Albert Cheng

Updated: 7:18am, 4 Sep, 2020

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Police senior superintendent Chan Tin-chu holds up a photo from the night of the Yuen Long attack on July 21, 2019, during a press conference on August 26. Photo: Nora Tam Police senior superintendent Chan Tin-chu holds up a photo from the night of the Yuen Long attack on July 21, 2019, during a press conference on August 26. Photo: Nora Tam
Police senior superintendent Chan Tin-chu holds up a photo from the night of the Yuen Long attack on July 21, 2019, during a press conference on August 26. Photo: Nora Tam
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Albert Cheng

Albert Cheng

Ir. Albert Cheng is the founder of Digital Broadcasting Corporation Hong Kong Limited, a current affairs commentator and columnist. He was formerly a direct elected Hong Kong SAR legislative councillor. Mr Cheng was voted by Time Magazine in 1997 as one of "the 25 most influential people in new Hong Kong" and selected by Business Week in 1998 as one of "the 50 stars of Asia".