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Protesters Return to Hong Kong Streets in Anti-government March

Erin Hale

   Updated Aug. 3, 2019, 10:20 a.m.

   HONG KONG - Protesters became the target of police tear gas Saturday
   night after they gathered at the Tsim Sha Tsui district police station
   and as an estimated tens of thousands of people once again filled the
   streets to protest the government's mishandling of its ongoing
   political crisis that has turned much of the city against leader Carrie
   Lam.

   Protesters marched across Mong Kok and Sham Shui Po on Hong Kong's
   Kowloon peninsula onSaturday afternoon before converging in Tsim Sha
   Tsui, a waterfront shopping district popular with tourists from China,
   where they briefly barricaded a cross-harbor tunnel.

   The protests have been mostly peaceful, although they increasingly have
   featured skirmishes with police after some protesters refused to
   disperse at assigned times. Protesters have vandalized buildings, set
   small fires and thrown bricks, while police have fired tear gas and
   rubber bullets. There was more of the same Saturday.

   The protest is the latest in nearly nine weeks of demonstrations
   against the government, which earlier this summer tried and failed to
   push a bill through its semi-democratic legislature that would have
   allowed criminals to be extradited to mainland China.

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