Protests Continue In Hong Kong

UNDATED (AP) – Several thousand people have turned out in Hong Kong in an unusual display of support for the police force, criticized as abusive by the city’s protest movement. People shouted words of thanks at officers, with some calling them heroes for policing six months of pro-democracy demonstrations. The rally in a waterfront park attracted a bigger crowd than a protest against the government a few hundred meters away. It brought together a few hundred people in a square. There were also scattered small protests in shopping malls. Tensions flared in one mall after police arrested about eight protesters. Police used pepper spray when people threw bottles of water at them.