{"id":3237,"date":"2014-12-19T06:27:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T11:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2014-12-19T06:27:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T11:27:42","slug":"heres-why-hong-kong-police-are-beating-umbrella-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3237","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Why Hong Kong Police Are Beating Umbrella Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n3\/1150719-heres-why-hong-kong-police-are-beating-umbrella-protesters\/\">Here&#8217;s Why Hong Kong Police Are Beating Umbrella Protesters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Fear. That\u2019s the explanation\u00a0the son of a police officer arrived\u00a0at\u00a0to answer the question of why police acted aggressively towards protesters during the Hong Kong protests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #c51d1d; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inmediahk.net\/node\/1029638\" target=\"_blank\">Chiang Kang<\/a>, a writer for Hong Kong news website inmediahk.com, recently asked his father, who\u2019s a Hong Kong cop, why the force is so jumpy about protesters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\u201cWhat if you burn the car? What if you occupy the airport and shut down Hong Kong?\u201d Chiang Kang\u2019s father said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The police \u201crefuse to believe that \u2018peaceful protesters\u2019 really exist in this world,\u201d Chiang Kang added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Chiang Kang father\u2019s perspective on protesters is perhaps representative of people his age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">In a\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #c51d1d; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yuenchan.org\/2014\/07\/politics-divides-families-friends-hong-kong\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>, Chinese University of Hong Kong journalism lecturer Chan Yuen discusses a generational divide that is preventing today\u2019s Hong Kong youths from communicating their views on politics and society with previous generations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a name=\"OLE_LINK2\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK1\"><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: LucidaGrande; color: #282828;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Why Hong Kong Police Are Beating Umbrella Protesters. Fear. That\u2019s the explanation\u00a0the son of a police officer arrived\u00a0at\u00a0to answer the question of why police acted aggressively towards protesters during the Hong Kong protests. Chiang Kang, a writer for Hong Kong news website inmediahk.com, recently asked his father, who\u2019s a Hong Kong cop, why the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130,632,1736,2012],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-china","tag-police","tag-police-violence","tag-umbrella-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}