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PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 29 July, 2015, 12:49pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 29 July, 2015, 2:04pm
Professor Lo Chung-mau collapsed to the floor on Tuesday night. Photo: SCMP Pictures
A member of the University of Hong Kong’s governing body who collapsed last night when students stormed its meeting said it was an ”insult” to suggest he was feigning injury and had “dived” like a cheating soccer player.
Professor Lo Chung-mau, who supported the deferral in appointing liberal scholar Professor Johannes Chan Man-mun to a key managerial post at HKU, said he did not faint during the chaos.
Watch: HKU professor collapses as students storm council meeting
“I was only looking at what was in front of me and following the other council members … then I felt my leg hit something,” Lo told RTHK today. “A doctor said I bruised my knee”.
A DMHK News video posted to YouTube shows that Lo was standing in the crowd of students who had just forced their way into the HKU council’s meeting room before he collapsed.
Facebook users compared Lo to a diving soccer player. Photo: Facebook
The reaction online was merciless today, with posters who suspected Lo of faking his collapse uploading parodies of the incident, including placing images of soccer players diving side by side with a photo of Lo lying on the ground holding one of his knees, eyes half closed.
But Lo, head of HKU’s department of surgery, denied pretending: “To say that is an insult to me,” he said.
HKU councillor and student union president Billy Fung Jing-en said the students near Lo had denied touching the medical professor. Fung also expressed sympathy towards Lo’s situation.
Additional reporting by Tony Cheung
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