Hong Kong protests descend into chaos during citywide strike - The Guardian 🔗 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 ✊🏽

Residential neighbourhoods were shrouded with clouds of teargas and residents were seen yelling at police or hurrying away. In a predominately pro-Beijing neighbourhood… a group of men… began beating protesters, in scenes reminiscent of an attack on commuters last month in Yuen Long by suspected gang members. One witness… said a group of about 20 men with wooden rods… had approached the protesters. ‘Both sides were shouting at each other and they rushed toward us and beat us … hitting with wooden rods and eventually their fists,’ he said. Earlier in the day, two taxis and a private car drove through crowds of protesters who had set up roadblocks, injuring at least one person. In Sha Tin, in Hong Kong’s New Territories, protesters grabbed bricks they had dug up and chased after a taxi that had narrowly missed running over demonstrators.