by Big Lychee
The NanfangToday, 09:21
A year after the alleged incident was first broadcast on video, the Ken Tsang police brutality case from the Umbrella/Occupy movement has finally to come to trial. In order to ensure that the cops accused of beating the activist don’t feel lonely or picked on in anyway, the authorities have simultaneously charged Ken as well.
We can tell that Ken’s arrest and charging is bare-faced, contrived spin for the simple reason that it can’t be anything else. If you really need more evidence, the government has issued a whiny and defensive statement by Secretary of Justice Rimsky Yuen denying it.
If you want to be depressed about what this means for rule of law in Hong Kong, see here.
The media now have a nice neat balanced package, in which both sides could equally be victims, and both could be equally guilty of assault. If we brush aside the little fact that the cops are headed for a higher-level court on more serious charges, we see an elegant, symmetrical equivalence. Just a tad more spin, and the media can present the story as one in which the ‘black cops’ are no worse than Ken – or Ken is no better than the cops.
Barely able to contain itself, the Standard’s editorial dives right in. That stuff you’ve always heard about justice delayed equals justice denied? Total crap. Consider yourself corrected. And by saying the government is trying to divert attention away from the police, Ken (who – sniff – is barely even newsworthy) is actually trying to divert attention away from himself…
And he’s a coward. So there.
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