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his high school in protest.
Armored police squads
chased protesters down the
streets, jumping and beat-
ing them with batons. The
protesters thrashed on the
floor, yelling their names
and ID numbers.
At home, supporters
watching on live feeds began
to cry.
Hong Kong’s police chief,
Stephen Lo, condemned
protesters in a news briefing
and said the police shooting
was “lawful and reasonable”
because the gun-wielding of-
ficer had acted in self-de-
fense as protesters assailed
officers with sticks.
Police arrested more
than 180 people Tuesday on
various charges, including
rioting, possession of offen-
sive weapons and assault of
police, he added, including
the protester who was shot.
The demonstrator under-
went surgery to remove the
bullet from between his
heart and lung. Police
waited outside the op-
erating room.
Government warnings
against “terrorism” and a
transportation lockdown
did not stop tens of thou-
sands of Hong Kong pro-
testers marching in their
own version of a National
Day parade — one demand-
ing democratic reforms and
government accountability
— in rejection of the Com-
munist Party system of gov-
ernance.
As Beijing celebrated the
Communist Party’s 70th an-
niversary of rule over China
with a massive military pa-
rade, Hong Kong’s pro-
testers massed along central
thoroughfares and in several
suburban districts, waving
black versions of the Chi-
nese flag and wearing Guy
Fawkes masks.
They raised open palms
in the air, chanting, “Five de-
mands, not one less,” and
“Free Hong Kong, revolution
now.”
It was a day of defiance
against the Communist Par-
ty’s celebration of its “na-
tional rejuvenation,” with
many protesters calling it a
day of “national grief,” wield-
ing posters decrying human
rights violations and mass
deaths under the party’s
rule.
“The so-called National
Day is a day for mourning.
We are mourning those who
sacrificed for democracy in
China,” said former law-
maker Lee Cheuk-yan as the
unauthorized marches be-
gan. “It’s 70 years of suppres-
sion. We mourn that, and we
also condemn the fact that
the Hong Kong government
together with Chinese gov-
ernment denied the people
of Hong Kong the right to
democracy.”
The morning started off
quietly, with stacks of news-
papers bearing bright red
ads celebrating the 70th an-
niversary of the People’s Re-
public sitting in front of
locked storefronts covered
with graffiti against “Chi-
Nazis.” Eleven major sub-

way stations were shut down, along with most shop- ping malls, which have been sites of bloody conflict between protesters and police. Police had arrested 200 people in the previous three days, including a local news reporter, an activist and a pro-protest actor, and warned Monday that they expected protesters to take “hard-core” action such as arson and killing in police disguise. Officials held a flag-rais- ing ceremony indoors with no public access. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam was out of town, attending Beijing’s military parade in Tiananmen Square. Early in the morning, dozens of pro-Beijing demonstrators from Hong Kong and the mainland unfurled a large Chinese flag along the harbor. “As Chinese, we have to have our national pride. We have to love our country

more and we want our country to be stronger,” said Zhang Zhusheng, 65, a main- lander from Xian who said he’d come to Hong Kong ex- pressly to celebrate National Day. But they were soon out- numbered by tens of thou- sands of protesters of all ages who poured into the streets across several districts of the city. Pun, 21, a protester in the Sha Tin suburb who asked not to use his full name for protection from authorities, said he hadn’t watched Bei- jing’s military parade. “In my mind I know it’s my country, but I don’t feel it in my heart. It looks more like North Korea than Hong Kong,” he said. The last four months of constant protest had given him a sense of deep pride in being a Hong Konger, he added. “There’s nothing special

about today,” he said, referring to China’s anniversary. “Hong Kong doesn’t have its own national day yet, just the days we were colonized. When we do, I’ll celebrate that.” In Wan Chai, a middle- aged couple sat on the side- walk, watching a live feed of police firing tear gas at protesters as crowds clad in black and singing protest anthems marched by. Kenny Pan, 50, had a heart-shaped China flag sticker on his phone. “These two things don’t contradict each other. I love my country — doesn’t mean I cannot ask for freedom,” he said, adding that the government was trying to scare people away from marching by “brutally beat- ing our young people.” “They know the root cause, but they don’t want to answer for the root cause,” he said. “Young people want to say what they don’t like. Young people ask for a better future. They just want to air their concerns. I appreci- ate that.” Protesters hung up an image of Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a target, spray- painted his face black and wrote on the walls: “May the heavens destroy the Com- munist Party” and “Xi, go hang yourself.” Anger at the lack of accountability for local police has fused with hostility toward the Communist Par- ty’s human rights abuses, a key part of Hong Kong soci- ety’s shared consciousness that the territory is the only

place in China where the in- ternet remains open and where the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre is com- memorated each year. “We don’t want Hong Kong to become like Tibet,” said Nick, 22, a protester waving Tibetan and blue United Nations flags over a highway. China was interfer- ing with Hong Kong’s inter- nal policies and creeping toward total control, he said. “The chief executive represents the Chinese government, not our citizens. That’s why we have to fight for our rights. We are not having a celebration of the Chinese government.” Others marched with Re- public of China flags, waving what has become Taiwan’s flag but once represented the Nationalist government that ruled China after the Qing Dynasty fell in 1911. “This is the true China,” said Kent, 50, adding that he wanted Hong Kongers to know there was another China in history. “If they don’t understand this history, they can easily be mis- led by the government.” Johnny, 24, said he was waving the Republic of China flag as an alternative version of China — the democratic system in Tai- wan today. “The Communist Party government is built from blood and killing people, Chinese people, in order to maintain their dictator- ship,” he said. “The Republic of China, Taiwan, represents freedom and democracy. Only this

can represent all Chinese people.” Within an hour of the marches’ official start, riot police began charging and firing tear gas at protesters. Street clashes began in several districts and soon took over large swaths of the city. “The government is using the police as a tool to destroy Hong Kong and the Hong Kong people, and they take their instructions from the CCP,” said protester Frank, 32, referring to the Chinese Communist Party. He was carrying a black flag that said, “Free Hong Kong, revolution now.” “We don’t feel anything today except anger,” he said. As protesters clashed with police into the night, a woman in her 50s offered en- ergy bars and water bottles to demonstrators clustered on the sidewalks. She gave only her first name, Alice, and said her 27-year-old son was among the protesters. “The youngsters are not going to withdraw. It’s really up to the government in Bei- jing to make a decision,” she said, adding that Lam, Hong Kong’s leader, was a “pup- pet.” She pulled out a pic- ture on her phone of Lam wearing a red jacket, smiling in Beijing. “This is just the flesh and blood of Hong Kong people, in particular Hong Kong youngsters,” she said. “She is all covered in blood.”

Su is a Times staff writer and Ho Kilpatrick a special correspondent.

Police shooting mars China’s celebrations

[Hong Kong,from A1]

HONG KONG protesters brave tear gas. China’s National Day is “a day for mourning,” one person said.

Marcus YamLos Angeles Times

TAIPEI, Taiwan — A tow- ering arch bridge over a bay in eastern Taiwan collapsed Tuesday, sending a burning oil tanker truck falling onto boats in the water below. An air force helicopter, fishing vessels and more than 60 military personnel, including divers, were searching for victims. Six people are believed trapped on one of the fishing boats, the National Fire Agency said. Interior Min- ister Hsu Kuo-yung told re- porters that about five people were feared to have been on the bridge when it collapsed. Ten people were sent to hospitals, six of them with serious injuries. The 460-foot bridge fell about 9:30 a.m. in Nanfan- gao, a tiny but often crowded Pacific coast fishing village. The weather was sunny, but a typhoon had swept by

the island hours earlier. Di- saster relief officials would not say whether the storm had weakened the bridge or give other details on the po- tential cause. The government-run Central News Agency said a bridge pier might have collapsed.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said she hoped all government depart- ments would do everything possible to save people and “keep the number of deaths and injuries as low as possible,” CNA reported. National Fire Agency

spokesman Su Hong-wei said the falling tanker smashed three fishing boats. The fall also set off a fire on the tanker truck, but it did not spread beyond the vehicle. Of the 10 people hospital- ized, six are Filipinos and

three are Indonesians, the agency said in a statement. People from both countries regularly work on fishing boats registered in Taiwan, where pay is better than in their home countries. The center of Typhoon Mitag passed east of Taiwan on Monday night and early Tuesday, but the outer winds gusting up to 85 mph affected the island before the storm moved to the northeast. The storm in- jured 12 people, felled trees, damaged vehicles and caused power outages around the island. Nanfangao Bridge, a tourist attraction, opened in 1998 and was built to replace a lower bridge that pre- vented large vessels from passing underneath. Ac- cording to the company that designed the nearly 60-foot- high bridge, MAA Consult- ants, it’s the only single-span arch bridge in Taiwan sup- ported by cables and the sec- ond single-arch cable-steel bridge in the world. Video on Twitter showed a large truck almost getting across the bridge and then tumbling backward as the bridge collapsed.

Taiwan bridge collapse triggers search

RESCUE WORKERSgather at the scene of the arch bridge collapse in Nanfan- gao in eastern Taiwan. A typhoon had swept the island hours earlier.

Sam YehAFP/Getty Images

Burning oil truck

tumbles onto vessels

in bay. At least 10 hurt;

others are missing.

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