Video | ‘It’s an insult’: HKU professor denies 'diving like a cheating soccer player' when students stormed council meeting
Surgeon Lo Chung-mau says he has a weak knee and feels 'insulted' by claims he feigned injury
A member of the University of Hong Kong's governing body who collapsed on Tuesday night after students stormed its meeting made a complaint of assault to police, while denying "diving" like a cheating football player.
Medical professor Lo Chung-mau, who supported a deferral in appointing liberal scholar Professor Johannes Chan Man-mun to an HKU managerial post, called it an "insult" to suggest he feigned injury amid the shouting and shoving inside the meeting room.
"I was only looking at what was in front," he said. "Then I felt my right knee seemed to have struck something. It felt like someone had kicked me. It hurt."
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Lo, head of HKU's surgery department, said the knee was weak as it had been operated on before for an injury.
Following his collapse, he was escorted away from the mayhem and taken to Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam, where a doctor said his knee was bruised and swollen. According to police, crime-squad officers interviewed Lo at the hospital after he lodged the report of assault.