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## Video: Police Clear Hong Kong's Main Protest Site

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_Published 2014-12-11. Hong Kong's main protest site has been cleared, after 73 days of occupation by pro-democracy demonstrators._


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## Transcript

We will be back. That's the message from Hong Kong's pro democracy protesters as they reach the 75th and final day of the occupation of the city's commercial district. Bailiffs start to clear the barricades one by one. Working their way up [ UNKNOWN ] road, inching closer to ten city. Those on the other side of the lines packed up their belongings. Mats, sleeping bags, and supplies that have kept this community thriving since September. Others lie in wait, exhausted from their two month occupation. As the bailiffs finish clearing the roads that fall under a court order, police take over and begin to push into the main site.

There is little resistance as they form accordance to the east and west of the camp When the police begin moving in, protestors put up no fight. But one group, made up of democratic legislators, stage a sit in. Over the next few hours they are arrested one by one and led to waiting police vans. To the east, police worked quickly and methodically to clear the tents. Piece by piece, Admonti's tent city is transformed into a mountain of debris. The student study corner is ripped apart, and trucks move in to pick up the heavy stuff. Every tent, mat, and banner is removed. Lenin wall, tent city, and the students have gone, but the heart of this groundbreaking movement has not.

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