Pro-democracy lawmakers and rights groups in Hong Kong accused the police of intentionally preventing protesters from dispersing during a pitched running battle on July 14, saying such tactics led to chaos and the violent clashes that ensued.
On July 14, a largely peaceful rally—that organizers estimated at 115,000 people—in Hong Kong’s northern town of Sha Tin, which sits near the border with mainland China, descended into violence inside a major shopping mall following an hours-long standoff.
