As it happened: Hong Kong protester shot in chest, six live rounds fired on National Day

20191001 SCMP

• Teenager hit by live bullet in Tsuen Wan in critical but non-life-threatening condition in hospital after undergoing surgery
• Clashes in 13 different places as dark day in city mars celebrations in Beijing for 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China
• Scenes of violence played out across Hong Kong throughout Tuesday as anti-government protesters sought to tarnish National Day celebrations in Beijing, marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
• An 18-year-old protester was hit in the chest by a live bullet fired from close range by a police officer in Tsuen Wan, while exchanges of tear gas and petrol bombs took place in at least 13 parts of the city.Protesters on a massive banned "national grief" march from Victoria Park in Causeway Bay to Central appeared intent on continuing their journey toward Beijing's liaison office in Sai Ying Pun, but clashes broke out soon after.
• The morning had begun peacefully, as community leaders, political elites and officials gathered at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai to observe a flag-raising ceremony.
• Reporting by Victor Ting, Elizabeth Cheung, Gigi Choy, Kinling Lo, Gary Cheung, Joyce Ng, Brian Wong, Kimmy Chung, Kanis Leung, Chris Lau, Zoe Low, Thomas Chan, Cissy Zhou, Kathleen Magramo, Mimi Lau, Lam Ka-sing, Sidney Leng, Laurie Chen and Danny Lee

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【睇片】警荃灣極近距離開實彈槍　中五生危殆　左邊胸口中彈

20191001 立場新聞

【20:50再更新傷勢及傷者同學訪問】

警方今日下午四時許在荃灣海壩街一帶清場期間，警方曾於荃灣海壩街近川龍街發射實彈，一名示威者被警方近距離射擊，中槍倒地，先送到瑪嘉烈醫院搶救，後轉到伊利沙伯醫院進行手術，情況危殆。消息人士向《立場》指出，傷者為荃灣公立何傳耀紀念中學中五生，子彈射中他的肺部，校長及班主任前往醫院了解情況。

消息指，子彈並沒有傷及中鎗男子的肝、脊骨、心臟，子彈在背部，但多處肋骨斷裂。男子肺主動脈無損，但有氣胸，估計由於肺部出血嚴重，需要使用人工心肺（ECMO）。

警方：為拯救自己及同袍生命開槍

警察公共關係科高級警司余鎧均晚上在社交媒體通過影片交待開槍事件，稱當時有大批「暴徒」襲擊警務人員，現場警務人員生命受嚴重威脅，為拯救自己及同袍生命，向施襲者開一槍，傷者 18 歲，「左邊膊頭附近位置」中槍，送院時清醒，但未提及傷者情況危殆。

從香港城市大學學生會編輯委員會Facebook上載的影片顯示，該示威者左邊胸口有大量血液從心口湧出，並不斷大叫「好痛呀」,有記者詢問示威者名稱及身分證號碼，他自稱曾志健（同音），記者續指「你唔好太激動，你個心流緊血。」

痛苦倒地  左胸大量流血

《立場新聞》直播時拍攝到該名傷者一度似毫無知覺，口唇蒼白。警方未有將該名示威者鎖上手扣，期間曾一度嘗試張開示威者眼睛，及拍打其面部，但傷者未有反應。未幾，有救護員到場為傷者急救，需即時為傷者戴上氧氣面罩呼吸，及以工具固定傷者頸部，由救護員以擔架抬走並送上救護車。消息指，傷者被送至瑪嘉烈醫院。

示威者襲警  警近距離開真槍

而根據Campus TV, HKUSU香港大學學生會校園電視的影片顯示，有示威者當時正向一名警員攻擊，該警員則向該示威者近距離以真槍射擊，慢鏡顯示鎗口有花火噴出，二人距離估計不足半尺。該示威者約一秒後向後倒地。從衣著比對香港城市大學學生會編輯委員會上載的影片，相信就是倒地且左邊胸口有大量流血的示威者。

中五生 校內反修例關注組成員

該名示威者為一名中五學生，就讀荃灣公立何傳耀紀念中學，《立場新聞》亦向該校老師求證，證實示威者就讀其中學，校長及班主任正前往瑪嘉烈醫院。根據該校的校訊顯示，有一位名為「曾志健」的學生在上年學就讀5B班，擔任該校仁社副社長，本學年重讀中五生。

曾志健的同學晚上亦有在醫院等候，就讀同一間中學的 John（化名）指，認識曾志健已三年多，指他亦是校內反修例關注組的成員之一，對社會事件具正義感，又指他平日愛做運動及健身。

他續指，得悉曾志健今日會參與示威，不敢相信自己的朋友會被警察近距離以實彈擊中，又指明早七時半學校會有黑衫靜坐行動，希望同學及校友可一同聲援。

醫管局指，截至五時，共有十五名傷者送至各間醫院，其中瑪嘉烈醫院接收一名傷者，情況危殆，正進行急救。消息指，危殆傷者就是中槍的示，醫院正商量會否送至伊利沙伯醫院進行手術。

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心臟科醫生指警員沒即時查看中槍學生傷勢極不人道

20191002 RTHK

一名18歲男生昨日在荃灣被警員以實彈射中左胸，一度情況危殆。網上片段顯示，傷者中槍倒地後，警員制服一名試圖上前協助的示威者，過了3分鐘才有警員上前查看。杏林覺醒成員、屯門醫院心臟專科醫生黃任匡批評警方的做法絕對不合理，不明白為何警員沒有即時上前向傷者施救。他說子彈打中胸膛很容易致命，警方第一時間是將傷者置諸不理，做法泯滅人性、極不人道。

黃任匡指出，左胸腔涉及很多人體主要器官和結構，包括心、肺、鎖骨下動脈、主動脈等，任何一個上述器官被對方打中，幾分鐘延誤救治，也足以致命，形容今次中槍男生渡過危險期，是非常好彩。

他說如果傷者出現張力性氣胸，肺部漏氣，有多餘空氣積聚於胸腔，可導致肺部被壓，引致窒息及氣壓驟降，幾分鐘內已會造成生命危險，病人有機會當場暴斃，因此對胸腔中槍傷者置諸不理，是極不人道做法。

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Hong Kong Police Shot a Protester at Point-Blank Range. We Break Down What Happened. (Video)

New York Times

By HALEY WILLIS and AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER | Oct. 1, 2019 | 3:21

In a major escalation of violence since protests began four months ago, the Hong Kong police fired a live round at a protester from point-blank range. We analyzed the footage to create a comprehensive picture of what exactly happened. 

Hong Kong Police Shoot a Protester, 18, With a Live Bullet for the First Time

By Mike Ives 20191001

HONG KONG — A Hong Kong police officer on Tuesday shot a teenage demonstrator, the first time in months of protests that a live round was fired at a protester. The shooting capped an evening of violent protests, escalating the territory’s political crisis on the same day that the central government staged a huge military parade in Beijing to celebrate 70 years of Communist control.

The protesters in Hong Kong hoped to upstage Beijing’s celebrations by holding their own unauthorized marches. Violence quickly broke out, as demonstrators in districts across the city engaged in some of the bloodiest and most sustained clashes since protesters began taking to the streets in early June.

The split screen — pageantry in Beijing versus violence, tear gas and street fires in a restive Chinese territory — was hardly the image that China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, had hoped to show the world.

The protester was shot in the Tsuen Wan district of northern Hong Kong. Tsuen Wan is a working-class area near Hong Kong’s border with the Chinese mainland, miles from the city’s gleaming financial district.

Yolanda Yu, a spokeswoman for the Hong Kong Police Force, said in a video posted on the force’s Facebook page that the protester was an 18-year-old who had been shot in the left shoulder. She said the protester was conscious as he was taken to the hospital.

Local news media reported that the young man was a high school student.

Ms. Yu said the officer who shot the protester had been under attack by violent “rioters” who were threatening officers’ lives. “In order to save himself and his colleagues, he fired one shot at the attacker,” she said.

The Hong Kong police commissioner, Stephen Lo, told reporters at a late-night news conference that doctors were treating the young man who had been shot. He said the protester had been arrested and that the authorities would decide later whether to press charges of assaulting a police officer.

Mr. Lo said the officer who shot the protester on Tuesday acted in a “legal and reasonable” manner by giving a verbal warning before he opened fire. The officer had been assaulted at close quarters, Mr. Lo said, and had no other choice but to fire a live bullet.

“The range was not determined by the police officer, but by the perpetrator,” he said.

The police force also said on Twitter that there had been “rioting acts” on Tuesday across Kowloon, Hong Kong Island and the New Territories — the three main areas of the city.

Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority later said that 51 people had been sent to the hospital by early Tuesday evening, two of them in critical condition.

In a video circulating online, an officer is seen firing a handgun at close range at a protester wearing a black T-shirt and a pink gas mask.

In the video, the protester who was shot is first seen joining a black-clad mob of people who chase a riot officer and tackle him to the ground. They kick him and beat him with what appear to be metal pipes.

At one point, the protester approaches a second police officer who is standing nearby with a handgun drawn. Just after the protester hits the officer with the pipe, the officer fires at the man at point-blank range.

A few seconds later, a gasoline bomb thrown from offscreen — presumably by a protester — lands at the feet of the officer who fired the shot. In another video, the protester who was shot is seen being treated by paramedics.

The video of the shooting was filmed by a reporter from Campus TV, a student-run television station at the University of Hong Kong, and provided to The New York Times by another reporter at the station.

The Hong Kong police have fired hundreds of rounds of tear gas, rubber bullets and beanbag rounds to disperse street demonstrations since the protests began in June. On a few occasions, officers have fired live rounds into the air as warning shots, typically when they were surrounded by violent protesters.

Tuesday’s shooting was almost certain to further inflame protesters who have accused the police of employing overly aggressive tactics in the streets. Calls for an independent inquiry into the police’s behavior are among the key demands that protesters have issued to the Hong Kong government.

Natalie Chan, a university student who was protesting on Tuesday night in the Tuen Mun district, not far from Tsuen Wan, said that the Hong Kong police were “hurting innocent people.”

“We can’t let them continue,” Ms. Chan said of the police, as other protesters bashed traffic lights and the windows of shops and restaurants.

Elsie Chen, Jin Wu, Javier C. Hernández and Ezra Cheung contributed reporting.

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香港城市大學學生會編輯委員會 Editorial Board, CityU SU

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#荃灣【左胸中彈直擊】

1610 在荃灣大河道中混亂期間警員拔槍近距離（約一個身位）直射向示威者，其後該示威者中槍倒地。警方確認其中實彈。

傷者傷勢：

https://www.facebook.com/387603714763860/posts/1158937190963838?sfns=mo

[Suspected Live Ammunition at Protest] 1613 Demonstrators In the middle of Dahe Road in the Tsuen Wan were hit by real bullets on the left side of the chest. They kept shouting: "My heart hurts a lot" and there is a lot of blood flowing out of my heart.

Campus TV, HKUSU 香港大學學生會校園電視 Facebook

1 October 2019  

【十一 六區開花】警員開實彈打中一人左胸 Police fire cartridge at protestor 荃灣大河道有示威者心口中槍倒地，本台錄到警員開槍一刻。警員當時在超近距離開槍，打向示威者左胸，該示威者約一秒後向後倒地。其後，警方消息亦確認有一名示威者因中實彈而受傷。 A police fired bullet with his revolver at the protestor in very close distance, the protestor then collapsed onto the ground. The Hong Kong Police Force also confirmed that a protestor was injured by ammunition. 

中槍一刻片段