▼About this topic: At present, we are all aware of the “colour” we hold, fighting for what we believed in, whether one is on the side of “blue” or “yellow”. But the police couldn’t care less. Arresting “rioters” is all that matters.
Use of baton, tear gas and bean-bag bullets are part of the police’s self-claimed use of “minimum forces” in protests against protestors and all the citizens related. Hong Kong police’s acts of deliberate attacks on journalists, parliamentarians and religious sites are intolerable. Yet they are not satisfied.
The water cannons, which aim to target protestors at a larger scale, are used to so called “end the violence and restore order”, as the police and the government declared.
By adding colour into water or pepper-based solution, blue-dyed shots fired from water cannons leave indelible blue-dyed marks on protestors, making them easier to trace and get arrested in the future. The risk of getting “blue-dyed” adds on to the powerful damage already created by shots fired the water cannons.