Police testify in Ken Tsang assault trial, say they were splashed with liquid that smelled ‘like urine’
Police officers gave their testimony on the alleged attack during the Occupy movement in 2014.
A police sergeant said he was splashed in the face with an unknown liquid that smelled like urine on the night when pro-democracy activist Ken Tsang Kin-chiu was arrested for alleged police assault in October 2014.
But Wong Hoi-man did not identify his attacker in his statement that was read out at the Kowloon City Court on Friday, except to say that it was “a man in black wearing goggles and face mask”.
The 20-year-officer was carrying out a police operation to clear protestors from Lung Wo Road underpass in Admiralty when the attack took place during the occupy movement.
He recalled in the statement: “We were moving forward when I suddenly felt my head was wet ... I looked up to see a man wearing goggles and face mask pouring an unknown liquid.”
The liquid later splashed over his face and he noticed that it smelled strange.
“I thought it was urine,” he continued. “So I called out to ask my colleagues to be careful.”
Principal magistrate Peter Law Tak-chuen was previously told that Wong was among 11 police officers whom Tsang allegedly assaulted before he was said to have resisted police arrest on October 15, 2014.
