pro democracy protests in hong kong turn violent as police and demonstrators clash in the streets. police used tear gas and deployed water canons near the legislative council builds after protesters threw fire bombs on police barricades. cnn s paula hancocks in hong kong. a little after 2:00 in the morning. hong kong time. what s happening? well, fredricka it s a fluid situation here at the moment. we re just outside the police station. you can see the police behind me. and there are still a couple of hundred i would imagine protesters that are here. of course there is an awful lot of bystanders that want to see what s going on. now the police have been telling
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the united states postal service makes more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. there s chaos in the streets that continues to turn violent in hong kong. protesters throwing bricks at officers and launching fire bombs at government buildings. riot police moved in and shot tear gas during the 13th week of demonstrations. reporter: richard, this has been the scene of pitched battles between police who banned a major demonstration here and protesters who defied that ban and turned out in the tens and hundreds of thousands. first peacefully, but that quickly devolved into violence. protests hurled molotov cocktails at police who returned fire with a water canon.
especially in light of a ban that police issued on this latest protest, but that did not deter protesters. if anything, it only infuriated them. and we re seeing a very violent side of them now. we ve seen protesters hurl firebombs or molotov cocktails directly at government buildings in front of the legislative council, the local government in hong kong. and right next door to the pla, the chinese military. it didn t take long for police to intervene, to launch tear gas and something new, the use of a water canon. specifically, firing blue and red colored water out of that canon.
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