The tweet itself does probably not belong in this thread, and it is from a clearly biased poster, but to dismiss the whole issue with increasing violence as propaganda is a bit naive. I have been following the protests on SCMP, and based on what they report there are some, but I am not saying many, radical protesters that use violence on citizens that are not symphatic their cause. You can see videos on SCMP where ordinary senior citizens are pushed after verbal arguments, and there was a video a few weeks ago where a young banker employee knocked down because of saying «we are all chinese». Luckily, in the same videos, there are black clad protestors that go between the victim and the perpetrator and try to calm the situation down. Having said that, the amount of unprovoked violence and injury from the protestors side, can obviously not be compared to that of the other side. Still, I cannot see how the violence against ordinary citizens can be justified by the violence of the police.