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HK police are spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark them for arrest

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Re: HK police are spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark them for arrest

#3
Hey.. so based on my experience from the two previous HN articles this was mentioned in, in the previous hours, this submission will be flagged off the front page shortly. (Like in 5-10 minutes from now.)

You may wish to contact HN/YC about this.

Here are the previous threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20847434 (I kind of hijacked that one)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20846681

Edit: there we go, it's now flagged off the main page.

Re: HK police are spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark them for arrest

#4
post #2

it seems like the protesters should make some home made blue water dye and spray random people with it to create plausible deniability

I don't think the presumption of innocence applies like you think it would in this case.

Re: HK police are spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark them for arrest

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post #2

it seems like the protesters should make some home made blue water dye and spray random people with it to create plausible deniability

I was thinking more you could blue up to provide insta-protest-cool.

No I'm the messiah protester

Re: HK police are spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark them for arrest

#6
post #2

it seems like the protesters should make some home made blue water dye and spray random people with it to create plausible deniability

I don't think the presumption of innocence applies like you think it would in this case.

I was thinking if you were getting a lot of false positives, especially with loyalists that could make it a problem

Re: HK police are spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark them for arrest

#7
post #2

it seems like the protesters should make some home made blue water dye and spray random people with it to create plausible deniability

it would be better if everyone including the cops were all sprayed so the use of blue dye to highlight individuals would be impossible

Re: HK police are spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark them for arrest

#8
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the presumption of innocence applies like you think it would in this case.

I was thinking if you were getting a lot of false positives, especially with loyalists that could make it a problem

that's providing your expectation of "Justice" being fair...