[afiori]

> I've searched further and while I did find a few instances of police shooting at protesters, I didn't find deaths.

Not to deemphasize the seriousness of an actual death, but the difference between shooting at protestors (especially if in a crowd, but I have not seen the video) and casualties is a matter of luck.

[Udik]

True of course. For example a police agent shot at close range a protester that was attacking him with an iron bar [1]. Luckily it seems the protester survived.

But again, over many months of mass demonstrations, sometimes violent, the number of zero or very few actual deaths is significant.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/hong-kong-shoo...