Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas as Protests Resume Despite Withdrawal of Bill

Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas as Protests Resume Despite Withdrawal of Bill
Protestors stand behind a burning barricade during a demonstration in Mong Kok district in Hong Kong, China on Sept. 6, 2019. Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
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HONG KONG—Hong Kong police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray on Sept. 6 to clear protesters outside a subway station on the densely populated Kowloon peninsula, the latest clash in 14 weeks of sometimes violent anti-government demonstrations.

Hundreds of protesters, many of them masked and dressed in black, took cover behind umbrellas and barricades made from street fencing. Some had broken through a metal grill to enter the station where they pulled down signs and daubed graffiti on the walls.