Tuesday marked the seventh anniversary of the 2019 Yuen Long MTR mob attack. During police searches, officers checked activist Lee Ying-chi’s bag and found a document reading: “What the fuck are you searching for?”
Police officers searched people at Yuen Long MTR station on Tuesday evening, seven years since white-clad men stormed the concourse and indiscriminately attacked passers-by and protesters returning from a demonstration earlier that day.
According to reports by local independent media, about a dozen plainclothes police officers were at the MTR station on Tuesday afternoon.
Among those searched by police was activist Lee Ying-chi. Officers searched her bag and found documents inside a folder which read: “What the fuck are you searching for?”
Tuesday marked seven years since the Yuen Long mob attack on the night of July 21, 2019, when over a hundred white-shirted men stormed Yuen Long MTR Station.
The attack, which left dozens injured, marked a watershed in the pro-democracy protests and unrest that year. Police were heavily criticised for their slow response and failing to stop the violence in time.
Lee and other people who came to the MTR station on Tuesday evening held watermelons in an apparent reference to one of the alleged mobsters seen seven years ago, a watermelon farmer.
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Police officers conduct searches on 7th anniversary of 2019 Yuen Long mob attack
