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IN IMAGES: A Violent Day For Hong Kong's Occupiers

By Eyder Peralta / NPR
Published October 3, 2014 at 8:50 AM PDT
This story was published more than 9 years ago.
Student protesters are overwhelmed with emotions as they hold onto their tent while being threatened by residents and pro-Beijing supporters in Kowloon's crowded Mong Kok district on Friday.
Wong Maye-E AP
Student protesters are overwhelmed with emotions as they hold onto their tent while being threatened by residents and pro-Beijing supporters in Kowloon's crowded Mong Kok district on Friday.

Pro-democracy demonstrators look on as they protect a barricade from anti-protesters in an occupied area of Hong Kong on Friday.
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Pro-democracy demonstrators look on as they protect a barricade from anti-protesters in an occupied area of Hong Kong on Friday.

Policemen try to get a man to let go of a fence guarded by pro-democracy demonstrators in an occupied area of Hong Kong.
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Policemen try to get a man to let go of a fence guarded by pro-democracy demonstrators in an occupied area of Hong Kong.

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A group of men in masks rough up a man who tried to stop them from removing barricades from a pro-democracy protest area in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on Friday.
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A group of men in masks rough up a man who tried to stop them from removing barricades from a pro-democracy protest area in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on Friday.

A man is held back by police as he screams at pro-democracy protesters to stop occupying an area of the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong Friday.
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A man is held back by police as he screams at pro-democracy protesters to stop occupying an area of the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong Friday.

A pro-democracy protester is taken away by police officers as an ambulance tries to leave the compound of the chief executive office in Hong Kong on Friday.
Vincent Yu AP
A pro-democracy protester is taken away by police officers as an ambulance tries to leave the compound of the chief executive office in Hong Kong on Friday.

Angry locals confront pro-democracy student protesters demanding they remove the barricades blocking local streets in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, on Friday.
Wally Santana AP
Angry locals confront pro-democracy student protesters demanding they remove the barricades blocking local streets in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, on Friday.

A student protester is injured after being pulled off and hit by residents and pro-Beijing supporters.
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A student protester is injured after being pulled off and hit by residents and pro-Beijing supporters.

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Police stand guard outside the government headquarters on Friday in Hong Kong.
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Police stand guard outside the government headquarters on Friday in Hong Kong.

Police try and control as residents of Kowloon who are pro-Beijing scream at the student democracy protesters to " get out" in the Mongkok neighborhood.
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Police try and control as residents of Kowloon who are pro-Beijing scream at the student democracy protesters to " get out" in the Mongkok neighborhood.

Tensions are flaring in Hong Kong, where young activists have been staging pro-Democracy acts of civil disobedience for the past week.

As Scott reported earlier, what appeared to be a coordinated group of pro-Beijing protesters clashed with members of the Occupy Central movement. It's a story best told through images. We'll start with video from the South China Morning Post and then, we'll leave you with, a series of images from the wires.

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