Lam, a student, became the first protester to be acquitted in connection with an incident that allegedly occurred during last year’s anti-government unrest. He denied the offence.
Lam was accused of throwing a brick at police during a demonstration in Wong Tai Sin on October 1 – China’s National Day – last year. Hongkongers staged citywide protests on that day, in direct opposition to celebrations in Beijing.
Two police officers claimed that Lam, then 19, stood out from other protesters because he was not wearing a helmet. They claimed they spotted Lam the moment he hurled a brick and kept their eyes on him until he was subdued.
In delivering his verdict, District Court Judge Sham Siu-man sided with the defence’s argument that it was unlikely officers could concentrate on a single person during chaotic skirmishes: “The defence’s claim that police had caught the wrong person on that day is possible,” Sham wrote.
Sham went on to say at least one officer had not provided a full and truthful account of a head injury Lam sustained during the arrest. Both officers denied responsibility for the wound, with one claiming he only spotted the injury on the police vehicle.
“Both Constable Yeung and Sergeant Lam could not provide a reasonable explanation, I believe they did not tell the truth to the court. This certainly undermined the credibility of their overall testimony,” the judgement read.
Sham concluded that he could not accept the police testimony with “reassurance,” adding that the prosecution has failed to prove its case beyond all reasonable doubt. Lam was found not guilty and was released.
Speaking to reporters outside the court, Lam thanked his supporters as well those who attended his hearings. He said he still felt unsettled, adding: “If I didn’t do it, I didn’t do it.”
Also turns out, as Capitalist Accumulation continues and speeds up, it’ll turn out that a whole lot more seemingly innocuous companies, say as a random example not at all already being spread by Alex Jones et al, Acme Brick the owners of Brick.com, can be closer & closer tied to enormous unaccountable companies like Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway (which Bill Gates also owns stock in…..coincidence? No he’s a smart capitalist who knows how to increase his Capital)
It’s not because of a shadowy plot to provide antifa with bricks 20 years in the making, it’s because Capital makes more Capital, by it’s very nature. That capital has to find out how to continue to make more of itself, and turns out a good way to do that is to have ownership titles over a billion different companies.
But if you don’t have that as your first principle of analysis, you’ll be easily led down alt-reality rabbit holes, by a well-funded network of conspiracists *who are also subject to Capital’s eternal need for growth*
Now, just through the magic of removing the timestamp, I can make this photo be of anything I want
Now, especially without any sort of identifying information, bad actors can easily take this context-less photo and use it to prove a shadowy plot, to show that “THIS IS TAKEN (some day it wasn’t actually taken) HOURS BEFORE THE PROTEST WAS SCHEDULED TO START, PROOF THAT THE ROCKS WERE SET UP” with even more proof by means of “Imean just look at the way the guy in the yellow vest is mean-eyeing the camera, you can just feel how much he didn’t want his photo taken”
Humans are big meatsacks with electro-chemical meat inside our heads. It’s remarkably easy to trick ppl into believing what they’re already prone to believing, especially with mild social pressure & leading frameworks.
NOW POP QUIZ, WHAT DO YOU THINK THESE COPS AND CONSTRUCTION WORKERS ARE DOING TO THIS BEAUTIFUL PILE OF BRICKS
