單獨示威者被防暴警察小隊包圍──大衞與哥利亞 Lone Protester vs Riot Police Squad – David vs Goliath

一名戴着面具的單獨示威者被穿着防暴裝備的8名警察小隊包圍,該抗議者帶有「你可以嚇我們,但你不能阻止我們」的標誌。現場象徵着當前香港抗議活動中大衛與歌利亞的局勢。

一名戴着面具的單獨示威者被穿着防暴裝備的8名警察小隊包圍,該抗議者帶有「你可以嚇我們,但你不能阻止我們」的標誌。

現場象徵着當前香港抗議活動中大衛與歌利亞的局勢。在這種情況下,巨人歌利亞是中國的極權國家,無效的行政長官及其政府和國際特赦組織認為使用過度武力及違反了國際法的警察。

這位單獨的年輕女示威者只有她的抗議標語可以在心理上保護自己,而她的面具則可以保護她的身份。但是,最近特首林鄭援引殖民時代的《緊急法》使《禁蒙面法》生效後,她可能會被入罪。

A masked lone protester carrying a sign “you can scare us but you can’t stop us” was surrounded by a squad of 8 police in riot gear, outside Sogo department store in Causeway Bay this afternoon.

The scene is symbolic of the David vs Goliath situation in the current protests in Hong Kong. The giant Goliath, in this case, is the authoritarian Chinese state, the ineffectual chief executive and her government, and the police, whose excessive use of force was found by Amnesty International to be a violation of international law.

The lone young female protester only has her protest sign to protect herself psychologically and her mask to shield her identity. But after the recent “mask ban law” put into effect by Carrie Lam who invoke the colonial-era “emergency laws”, she could be in violation.

楊必興 P H Yang