I am scared. The students have surrounded the headquarters planning to stop the Chief executive from going to work. I don’t think the police will deploy fatal force and I know HK policemen is unlikely to follow such orders.
I am watching NOW news. The main student leaders are asking for calm and want to avoid injury so telling fellow protesters not to storm the headquarters, despite that was their threat if the Chief executive doesn’t step down and he said he wouldn’t.
The leaders are warning people to know that of they stay they might be hit with rubber bullets. Their professors are out reminding them of all the good will they have gained for being so polite and don’t lose it.
But there are a few hundred students who have stormed out of the agreed protest area because they are so angry. They have calmed down.
It can just turn chaotic. And dangerous. There are canisters that read “grenade” and “riot,” that’s been taking into the headquarters.
It’s a difficult situation. If they storm the headquarters the police will push back. I don’t blame them, it’s their job. They have put up with four days of illegal occupation, but the student leaders have also talked themselves into a bit of a corner.
The government is offering talks, but no one trusts them.
It can go either way.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 