Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says extradition bill ‘is dead’

The bill "is dead". Well chosen words, but they mean nothing legally. She was playing with words. Only "withdrawal" has legal effect, therefore she refused to say it. She even said this definition is no difference to what she has been saying when she told the public the bill was postponed. So the whole statement was just paraphrasing the previous ones, nothing more.

While I believe the bill will not be reincarnated in a few years at least, other serious problems already arose during the recent movement. For example police brutally. She said there will be a watchdog committee that investigates the incidents in the past month, but she omitted the most important fact that the committee is formed by police let alone the fact that the decision to prosecute the police will be made by the Secretary for Justice, who herself has a record of supporting whatever political decision made by Beijing and the HK government. The committee will do nothing of use.