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Hong Kong Police Break Up Scuffles at Shopping Mall Protest

Reuters

   HONG KONG - Baton-wielding Hong Kong police moved in to break up
   scuffles Saturday between pro-China protesters and those denouncing
   perceived Chinese meddling at the start of rallies planned for across
   the city after months of often violent unrest.

   The pro-China demonstrators chanted "Support the police" and "China,
   add oil" at a shopping mall in the Kowloon Bay area, adapting a line
   used by anti-Hong Kong government protesters and loosely meaning:
   "China, keep your strength up."

   "Hong Kong is China," one woman shouted at passers-by who shouted
   obscenities in return in an angry pushing and pulling standoff, marked
   more by the shouting than violence.

   The clashes spilled out on to the streets, with each confrontation
   captured by dozens of media and onlookers on their smart phones. Police
   detained several people.

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