Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) called on President Donald Trump to speak out after police in Hong Kong shot a protester.
“The #HongKong Police are out of control & escalating the level of violence against unarmed people. @realDonaldTrump should not remain silent while the situation worsens,” McGovern wrote on Twitter Sunday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), meanwhile, should “bring the bipartisan Hong Kong Human Rights & Democracy Act to the Senate Floor this week!”
The #HongKong Police are out of control & escalating the level of violence against unarmed people. @realDonaldTrump should not remain silent while the situation worsens.https://t.co/fj1YekGjzP
— Rep. Jim McGovern (@RepMcGovern) November 11, 2019
A day later, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said the shooting is a reminder that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a violent regime.
“This is why Hong Kongers have turned against the despots in the Chinese Communist Party: Beijings power depends on violence because they dont give a rip about human dignity. Beijing cant hide these images from the world. Free people everywhere stand with Hong Kong, and the Chinese Communist Party is going to discover that suppressing freedom-seekers with terror and bullets is a losing strategy,” he wrote in a statement on Monday.
Over the weekend, Hong Kong police fired several live rounds, which struck one protester in the abdomen. According to Hong Kong FP, protesters were blocking roads at an intersection.
An officer was reportedly chasing an individual wearing a mask before firing his service weapon at them. The incident was captured via a live stream of the protests. When another protester attempted to grab the officers gun, the officer fired another two shots.
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Pro-democracy legislator Ray Chan criticized Hong Kong officials over the move, saying that the officer was filmed attempting to pick up the shot protester.
“The unarmed young man shot in the abdomen is an alumnus of Salesian School on #HongKong Island, the high school I went to. Is this the proper way to handle a casualty who is likely toRead More – Source
