Pro-democracy protesters clashed with Police in Hong Kong early in a clash that is happening for the first in two weeks and which lasted for about four hours. Huffingtonpost World reports:
Pro-democracy protesters clashed with police in Hong Kong early Thursday for the first time in more than two weeks as pressure grows on demonstrators to abandon more than a month and a half of street occupations.
The skirmishes lasted for about four hours in the bustling Mong Kok neighborhood, the most turbulent of three protest sites that have snarled swaths of the city.
Police said they attempted to arrest a man who was shining his cellphone light into officers’ eyes, and demonstrators responded by surging at police lines. The two sides ended up in a tense standoff, with several protesters taunting police.
At about 2:30 a.m., protesters charged again at police lines and flooded into a street. Officers responded with pepper spray and pushed the crowd back into their camp.
Police said they arrested three people in the confrontations, which left at least one protester bleeding from the head.
