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It was big at the time, but ended up being a minor blip, and from what I read, there were no actual deaths caused by the police.

There was one guy who fell down a high rise garage and there was a street cleaner who was killed by the protesters.

Compare that to when the British were taking over Hong Kong, and hundreds of protesters were killed.

I’ve always wondered what would have happened if the pandemic didn’t occur soon after.

What’s crazy is the trigger was a Hong Kong national who killed his girlfriend in Taiwan. Taiwan wanted to extradite him but there was no law in place to do so. Apparently the killer is still free today.

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Officially no deaths caused by police.

Chan yin-lam case is one that always sticks in my head.

I can well believe correlation is sometimes the answer but the odds of an award winning swimmer doing a midnight dip and washing up naked the next day, with a rushed police investigation and extremely expedited cremation is a fair bit to accept as coincidence

I checked Chan Yi Lam’s Wikipedia page. It was ruled a suicide. The conspiracy theories surrounding this case are absurd and out of control. People even challenged her mother’s identity, forcing a DNA test to be done, and yet the crowd still continued to harass her mother.

Minor blip?

When a government has massive protests week after week, where close to 1 out of 5 citizens comes out in some cases, that's a huge problem.

Not to mention when it can only be "fixed" by baton swinging police and arrests for the very act of protesting.

Minor blip? First one million people marching. Then a week later nearly two. Street battles between police and protesters supported by many thousands of people. I saw a video of a guy being shoved out of a high-rise window. No doubt that was ruled "suicide" too, but it never broke out as a news story. A protester was shot but not killed by police. It's a miracle more lives weren't lost. To say it was a "blip" betrays a profound lack of understanding and knowledge about the events.

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