An elderly woman in Hong Kong stood in between the protesters and riot police on Saturday July, 27, in Yuen Long, a town in New Territories, and shouted at both sides.

While urging the protesters to leave, she scolded the riot police too.

What were they protesting for?

Despite the police banning a rally in Yuen Long, Hongkongers took to the streets there on July 27 to protest against the assault led by a white-clad mob on July 22.

Analysts claimed the mob was made up of triad members who were paid by the police as part of an "extra-legal governance" to deal with the protesters, or things they could not use legal enforcement for.

Protesters wearing black tops, reporters wearing yellow vests to identify them as media, as well as ordinary commuters wearing different-coloured tops were all targeted.

Urged protesters to leave

According to HK01, at about 5.44pm, in the midst of a stand-off between the protesters and the riot police, an elderly woman holding a walking stick rushed towards the protesters and urged them to leave.

She repeated her cries for them to "go away" several times.

She then faced the police with her arms spread out, shouting at them to stop firing rubber bullets at the protesters.

Protesters tried to calm her down while holding her back to stop her from advancing towards the police.

Elderly citizen standing in front of the police line to defense #YuenLong demonstrators. She cried and asked riot police not to fire bullet towards youngsters. https://t.co/CoVW5lJUb2 pic.twitter.com/5qtp04dncv

— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) July 28, 2019

But when asked by the protesters to leave, she shouted, "I'll leave if you all leave!"

Shouted at riot police

The elderly woman could also be heard shouting at the police, "What kind of world is this, if you shoot (at my eyes), I'll go blind."

She continued shouting at them from the sidewalk afterwards, "You don't hit the white-shirts, but yet you go and hit the citizens, what kind of person are you?"

People persuade an old woman going back to the sidewalk who showed anger to the riot police at the frontier. #hongkong #NoToChinaExtradition #YuenLong pic.twitter.com/y4X7oGv4Oq

— Julian K Fung (@juliankfung) July 27, 2019

HK01 also highlighted an elderly man who went forward to shout at the riot police.

Police criticised

The Hong Kong police has come under fire yet again for charging at protesters in a train station at Yuen Long at a time when they were preparing to leave.

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets on Hong Kong island again on Sunday afternoon, July 28 to protest against what they saw as excessive police violence.

According to the latest update from The Washington Post, they started deviating from Charter Garden in Central, the designated rally site, to shopping district Causeway Bay, as well as Sheung Wan.

The Hong Kong police said in a statement released on July 27 that the demonstration had been an "unauthorised assembly", and condemned the frontline protesters for throwing bricks and other "hard objects" at them.

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