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Hong Kong Police Spray Tear Gas in Protest at Shopping Mall

Associated Press

   HONG KONG - Hong Kong police used pepper spray on Friday to disperse
   over a hundred protesters in a shopping mall who were singing and
   chanting pro-democracy slogans.

   The demonstrators sang the protest anthem "Glory to Hong Kong" and
   chanted "Glory to Hong Kong, revolution of our times" in the New Town
   Plaza mall in Hong Kong's New Territories.

   As protesters gathered in the mall, riot police stopped and searched
   some and later told them to leave, saying they were violating
   social-distancing rules. The police then sprayed tear gas to disperse
   the crowd before cordoning off the atrium of the mall.

   The protest was one of several that went ahead on May 1, Labor Day,
   despite rules that forbid public gatherings of more than four people.

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