Police dispersed protesters who gathered at the IFC mall in the central business district on Friday to raise anti-government slogans during the lunch hour, with some reporters complaining that they were pepper-sprayed after a scuffle with police, RTHK reports. The protesters had gathered at the upscale mall in Central after online calls for a protest over a Legco row, and the more than two dozen people who turned up spread themselves across different floors to observe social distancing measures. Dozens of police officers then ran into the mall and some officers started checking the ID of some young people. A scuffle ensued as officers tried to take away a young man who shouted out that he was a journalist. Some media people around the youngster got into a scuffle with the officers before they eventually took him away.

Source: The Standard May 08, 2020 07:07 UTC