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Don’t vent extradition bill fury on Hong Kong police, security chief John Lee tells protesters after force HQ besieged
- John Lee decries what he says were acts of vandalism and harassment at recent siege of force’s HQ
- Police chief adds that, despite his officers’ tolerant approach to recent action, unlawful acts will not go unpunished
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Hong Kong’s security chief has urged protesters not to vent their anger on the police, after the force’s headquarters was besieged by demonstrators for the second time in a week.
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Secretary for Security John Lee Ka-chiu also decried what he said were acts of vandalism and harassment at recent protests against the administration’s now-suspended extradition bill.
Lee made the remarks as he met the press alongside Commissioner of Police Stephen Lo Wai-chung at the headquarters in Wan Chai. It was the first time the two officials had commented on the protests outside the compound, during which the building’s facade was vandalised and the outer walls defaced with abusive graffiti.
The minister said that while he, the city’s leader and the justice chief had apologised for deficiencies in the government’s work on the legislation, police officers had nothing to do with those failures.
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“Even if you are dissatisfied with any [work] of the government, I hope you will not vent it at the police force,” he said.
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