“According to the footage and the report from our members, we have strong reasons to believe that these injuries are caused by police abuses of power,” he said in a statement that did not identify the man. “We are profoundly concerned and angered by the situation.”
Mr. Williams, an acting senior superintendent, defended the police officers by saying that the videos were not clear enough to determine what had happened.
“You mentioned a video which shows what appears to be an officer kicking a yellow object on the ground,” he said to a reporter. “Now, we don’t know what that object is, but there are other videos that are more clear that show the entire incident and there’s no malpractice by the police whatsoever in the clear video.”
It was not known which video he was referring to. The police did not immediately respond to a request for a link to the video.
Later in the news conference, Mr. Williams asserted that bystanders had “doctored the video to show police kicking people,” without offering evidence.
He received support on Tuesday from Carrie Lam, the territory’s beleaguered chief executive, who declined to take a stance on the video.
“It would be very difficult for me as a chief executive to offer my own opinion on individual video footage or shots to determine what is right, what is wrong, what is true, what is fake, because there has been so far always different versions to the same incident,” she said at a news conference.
Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/world/asia/hong-kong-yellow-object.html
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