Hong Kong Protesters Give News Reporter Helmet & Umbrella After Police Fire Tear Gas

Activists in Hong Kong are protesting against the extradition bill. Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) said that it was planning to hold a third protest on Sunday afternoon against the bill that would allow fugitives to be extradited to mainland China, although it had not yet received permits to do so from the police.

Journalists from various agencies have been covering the protests in Hong Kong. Journalists in conflict zones face lots of problems and going to any conflicted zone requires journalist to make choices which has risks attached to it.

Many of them have little or no hostile environment training and very often are not entirely sure of what might happen, since the situation is vulnerable.

One of the journalist from CBS News Asia correspondent Ramy Inocencio, was reporting at ground zero on June 12 when tear gas was fired by the police.

The journalist was unprotected from tear gas, until a few protesters stepped in and gave him an umbrella. While he continued reporting, another protestor gave him a helmet. The video of the incident has gone viral on social media platforms. Even Inocencio shared the video expressing his gratitude for the unnamed protestor.

Hong Kong's youth protestors are kind. I post this clip to say thanks. @CBSrandy was rolling when the police fired tear gas at the group we were in. An umbrella and helmet were forced on me. I'll prob never know who they are but I'm so grateful for their care. #HongKongProtests pic.twitter.com/NNAsFjpXOP

— Ramy Inocencio 英若明 (@RamyInocencio) June 13, 2019

This was not the only time that the protesters helped the journalist. Inocencio also put another still from the same site. His post garnered over 971k views on Twitter till now, with 34,009 likes and 21,789 retweets.

Earlier I said our team was tear gassed as we filmed next to a group of #HongKong protestors. Our awesome photog @CBSrandy grabbed this still from the vid. These super kind protestors helped douse my eyes. Watch @CBSEveningNews tonight to see how it happened. @CBSNews is here. pic.twitter.com/XwH4nt1XsG

— Ramy Inocencio 英若明 (@RamyInocencio) June 12, 2019

People on Twitter started praising the kind act by the protesters.

1.

Love these people!

— Kari B Hertel (@karibowieHertel) June 13, 2019

2.

Thank you for reporting the truth to the world

— 二条はるか (@nizyou_haruka) June 13, 2019

3.

You are lucky. Some other aren't.
We Hongkongers suffered more than 100 injuries with a few in ICU, at least one nearly died. pic.twitter.com/xHmV5J3MpV

— Hongkong Bear News 熊新聞 (@Hongkong_Bear) June 13, 2019

4.

Hong Kongers are some of the most compassionate people I’ve ever met.

— Patterson Estate (@ChristineNavin) June 13, 2019

5.

Agree. Truly kind and beautiful people.

— Mary Neigh ? (@nashvl) June 13, 2019

6.

Acts of kindness and humanity captured on camera! You were well protected, @RamyInocencio!

— Eva Tam (@evatam) June 13, 2019

7.

I cried?

— NorahFW (@yeung_nora) June 13, 2019

According to CNA, 81 people have been injured in the protests till now. Meanwhile, 22 police officers were also injured and 11 people were arrested.

The police had fired about 150 tear gas canisters, though Hong Kong Police Commissioner Stephen Lo had defended the police and their actions, saying that they had shown restraint, until ‘mobsters’ attempted to storm the parliament.

A couple of days ago, a Delhi-based journalist, Prashant Kanojia, was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday for sharing a post about the state's Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, that was considered ‘objectionable’.

According to the reports, the chief of the private television news channel and its editor too were arrested in Noida, for airing allegedly defamatory content on Yogi Adityanath.

He has been arrested on the charges including Sections 500 (defamation) and 505 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act.