Hong Kong Police Shot at Journalist, Case Deemed ‘Unsubstantiated’

Riot police drove away reporters with violence in Mong Kok and one of them shot a sponge grenade at a reporter in the early morning of Nov. 16, 2019. The grenade shattered the masks in the reporter's backpack. Screenshot via the Editorial Board of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

The case of a Hong Kong reporter who was shot by a sponge grenade during the 2019 anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong, was recently categorized as  “unsubstantiated.”

The reporter, from the Commercial Radio Hong Kong (CRHK), launched an allegation and a complaint about the police officer who fired the shot after the incident.