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    Hong Kong protesters took their organizing principle from Bruce Lee. Now some are having second thoughts

    by Alice Su, Los Angeles Times Aug 17, 2019 5 minutes

    HONG KONG - The protester felt torn as an elderly Australian woman in a wheelchair grabbed his hand and asked for help.

    She was trying to get home and wanted assistance navigating through the thousands of demonstrators at the Hong Kong International Airport to reach her gate.

    If he were in charge, he would have let her pass.

    But he wasn't. Nobody was. And so he deferred to the crowd and its blockade.

    "I kept saying sorry to her, but there's nothing I could do," said the 25-year-old protester, who spoke on condition that he only be identified by his last name, Chan.

    Eleven weeks into Hong Kong's now famously leaderless movement against police brutality and unwanted influence by authorities in mainland China, protesters have been doing

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