(Photo credit: CGTN)

Some artificial modified videos and photos on the Internet have resulted in public misconception of the methods for law enforcement of the Hong Kong police. For this reason, the Hong Kong police held a press conference to clarify the truth to the news media on August 22.

In the press conference, Mo Junjie, an officer of the cyber security and sci-tech crime case investigation department of the Police Force of Hong Kong SAR Government, said that a photo showing a family being chased and beaten by the riot police at Shatin New Town Plaza was not true. However, the video clip provided by the police on the press conference clearly showed that this family were escorted by the police to a safe place. Afterwards, the family expressed their gratitude for the protection from the police in public.

Mo said, the video on the Internet showing a policeman kicking a protester who had been subdued on the floor, had been distorted in order to arouse public opposition to the police. He explained, that was because the pixels of the video was too low, the feet of the policeman seemed in motion. The video of good quality obtained and played by the police revealed the fact was not so.

The police also showed a footage of the demonstration scene at the press conference, in which a young man suddenly attempted to jump from the bridge. He was pulled by several policemen in time and saved. However, the incident was described on the Internet in a different story which said that the policemen attempted to push the youngster off the bridge.

The police said, a lot of citizens held a demonstration at Yuen Long stop of Hong Kong metro on the night of August 21, which was orderly and peaceful at first. Yet afterwards a group of radical protesters rushed to the roads beyond the stop and hampered the traffic nearby using dustbins and bus stop boards as obstacles. The police took an action to disperse the crowd and arrested two male suspects who were respectively 27 and 36 for the guilt of engaging in an unlawful assembly.

Executive Editor: Ke Ye

Translation: Ke Ye, Wenjin Chen