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the Hong Kong police have reportedly changed their guidelines for what is defined as “acceptable force” in the context of the protests
. The updated guidelines remove a line about individual officers being held “accountable for their own actions,” according to Reuters, granting them “their own discretion to determine what level of force is justified in a given situation.” With university students and university campuses in the limelight, some toldthat they believe the police force are intentionally using disproportionate force on young people.
“I believe that the police is targeting all students and young people. If it is a young man or woman and they walk in front of the police, they have a bigger chance of getting arrested," said a 27-year-old female protester, who preferred to remain anonymous, as she threw bricks onto the road in Central, Hong Kong Island’s main commercial district. "If two people are in the same clothes, with the same bags, with just a difference in age, the younger one is more likely to get arrested.
Cathy Yuen, 16, agreed: “I believe that the police are targeting young protesters and also young women. They’re easier to arrest. Young women don’t seem so dangerous to them,” she told. But they failed to break police barricades, and police soon cornered the protesters, deploying tear gas and water cannons to disperse the protesters after a tense standoff. “Most young women in the protests are respect[ful],” Cathy continued. “They don’t want to fight the police.
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