Enact Hong Kong law banning insults against police, former security chief says
Ambrose Lee, who made the call in Beijing, also says police commissioner does not have to apologise over jailing of seven officers over beating of activist
Hong Kong’s former security chief has thrown his weight behind the idea of enacting a new law banning insulting behaviour against police officers amid escalating tension between the city’s law enforcers and members of the public.
“The incident was triggered by a citizen who poured urine on the police officers,” Lee told the press on the sidelines of meetings in Beijing on Friday.
“They overreacted and indeed violated the law, but they only acted in this way after being provoked,” he said.
He was referring to the testimony of the assaulted officers, though the court only found Tsang poured liquid.
