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Incredible footage shows scale of protest against Hong Kong's extradition bill

2019-06-10 572 Dailymotion

Residents of Hong Kong took to the streets yesterday (June 9) to demonstrate against a bill proposed by Hong Kong's government to extradite citizens to mainland China.<br /><br />Footage of Hennessy Road filmed from a highrise building shows a crowd of protesters marching through the street in the city centre.<br /><br />It was reported that a million people congregated in the streets despite authorities claiming the number of protesters was close to 240,000.<br /><br />The filmer explained: "Most people I have ever seen in my life and probably ever will. <br /><br />"I am an expat from America and it actually was very crazy that people were so organized and did not cause many problems during the actual march. <br /><br />"You could be one street over and not even know it was happening. The police returned the road to normal very quickly. <br /><br />"Little cleanup was needed as the trash was just piled around trash cans. <br /><br />"It would probably have been rowdier and trashed if it was a US big city.<br /><br />"I know there were issues at the end of the walk, but none I could tell from watching over the afternoon. <br /><br />"It was a good experience and you couldn't say that for many protests, a la Gilets Jaunes, etc."

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