Hong Kong Supporters and Pro-Beijing Group Clash at Toronto Rally

Hong Kong Supporters and Pro-Beijing Group Clash at Toronto Rally
A pro-Beijing group carrying the five-starred red flag blocks Hong Kong supporters from marching at a rally in downtown Toronto on Aug. 17, 2019. Arek Rusek/NTD Television
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A rally in Toronto on the weekend organized to show support for the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong changed course when a rowdy group of pro-Beijing counter-protesters showed up.

On Aug. 17, hundreds of people gathered at Old City Hall in downtown Toronto to march in a show of solidarity with the people of Hong Kong, who began protesting in early June over an extradition bill that could have resulted in criminal suspects being sent to China.