[admk]

Because the news of the journalist got beaten up by the protesters went viral. There were more than 4 billion views on the related searches [1].

I will refrain from commenting on politics (don't have the time to contribute) but must say that I found both sides are incredibly biased against each other.

[1]: https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E6%88%91%E4%B9%9F%E6%94%AF%E...

[gwathk]

The "journalist" has no official record of him[1]. He also held a travel visa to Hong Kong and failed to show press pass on the scene[2].

It is wrong to do this to anyone and the protestor organized an apology session in HK airport the next day.[3]

[1]: (if you read chinese) http://cablenews.i-cable.com/ci/videopage/news/554875/%E5%8D... [2]: https://www.facebook.com/HKJA.official/posts/101572528984603... [3]: https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/order-returns-hong...

[admk]

Re. [1,2] see [4], but I wouldn't expect it to convince you. Re. [3] I fail to see how an apology is an acceptable excuse for the protesters' behaviour, regardless of their cause.

[4]: https://weibo.com/1989660417/I2cCLyIGC?refer_flag=1001030103...

[Aeolun]

> I fail to see how an apology is an acceptable excuse for the protesters' behaviour, regardless of their cause.

Presumably you think the same thing about the behaviour of the police. But they are lacking even an apology.

[yorwba]

The protesters apologizing are presumably not the same whose behavior they're apologizing for. It just shows that the protest movement is not homogeneous and does not as a whole support indiscriminate violence.

[gruez]

>Because the news of the journalist got beaten up by the protesters went viral

Given there's a history of the government using provocateurs. I'd take that with a grain of salt.

[baybal2]

> [1]

In a strange time we live in, a red guard journalist gets a struggle session from pro-democracy activists in China's most freewheeling city

[siidooloo]

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