Crowd Tries to Charge Hong Kong Democracy Protest

HONG KONG — An angry crowd tried to charge barricades used by pro-democracy protesters to occupy part of downtown Hong Kong as a standoff with authorities dragged into a third week.

Several hundred people, many of them middle aged or older men, gathered in front of barricades on a main road Monday, chanting, "Open the road!"

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They were held back by a line of police officers.

Some people in the crowd tried to remove the metal barricades that protesters have set up to block off main roads near the heart of the city's financial district. They also shouted, "Occupy Central is illegal," referring to one of the names of the pro-democracy movement that has swept Hong Kong. Read more...

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