Hong Kong protests: inspectors in charge of clearance operation deny pursuing student who fell from height inside multistorey car park
- Senior Inspector Wong Ka-lun also tells court that officers did not obstruct paramedics in treating 22-year-old Alex Chow
- Senior Inspector Kwok Chun-hei says his colleagues had not been informed about Chow’s falling when they dispersed protesters outside car park
One of the two, Senior Inspector Wong Ka-lun, also reiterated at the Coroner’s Court that officers did not obstruct paramedics in treating 22-year-old Alex Chow Tsz-lok, when they were conducting a sweep inside the car park in Tseung Kwan O.
Earlier, police had fired five tear gas rounds from the adjacent street into the car park, after protesters gathering inside the building started throwing glass bottles and traffic cones at officers on the ground.
Wong, who ordered his colleagues to aim at the car park, admitted he was not sure whether the ammunition would hit anybody when he made that decision.
The court heard on the second day of a 25-day inquest that about 200 protesters confronted police at the junction of Tong Ming Street and Tong Chun Street in the small hours of November 4, 2019.
Protesters were believed to have responded to online calls to barricade roads in the neighbourhood, where an officer was said to be holding a wedding banquet at a hotel.
Wong, a subunit leader at police’s East Kowloon Emergency Unit, arrived at the junction alongside 30 junior officers at 12.35am to provide support to another team of 35 officers already at the scene.