A day after police escalated their tactics while clearing out protesters from the streets—including by firing a warning shot in the air and deploying water cannons—the pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong’s legislature called out city leader Carrie Lam for dragging her feet and failing to resolve the crisis.
Civic Party lawmaker Kwok Ka-ki, at a press conference on Aug. 26, said that Lam was delaying a resolution to the crisis stemming from her government’s proposed extradition bill, as protesters have already established a consensus on the “five demands.”
