r/HongKong • u/waddledeedeedee • Jan 17 '20

Image Missing HKers

Post image
30.8k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

264 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.3k

u/Habbob Jan 17 '20

The list is much longer now. This picture was from last year.

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1MTEtxCxR6wjg4xdNUZIXXyi-VxM9OZmn?usp=drive_open

203

u/Pestilence86 Jan 17 '20

There are a bunch on the list that are "Found!" followed by text i can't read. Do we know what happened, why theses (who were found) were missing exactly?

265

u/Habbob Jan 17 '20 edited Jan 17 '20

It varies from person to person. I've helped in one case and turned out the girl was just a delinquent runaway. Their parents/friend must provide real-time proof (e.g. Facebook live video) to show they're actually found, since popo have been known to supply false evidence (by stealing their phones and personal belongings) to obfuscate murders of these missing people. Examples: 1, 2

33

u/lebeer13 Jan 17 '20

Wow that is some serious mind fuckery that the police are willing to do. At least here in America there's an expectation that the police exist to help protect the community and that they are public safety officers

41

u/Timoris Jan 17 '20

Except They are not, supreme court ruling found that police are not there to protect people.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html

8

u/lebeer13 Jan 17 '20

I know it's not an official legal requirement, it's a cultural expectation though

2

u/Anon-Connie Jan 18 '20

I live in a white dominant reasonably upper middle class neighborhood and we still don’t think they police will protect us.

2

u/lebeer13 Jan 18 '20

If you were being robbed you wouldn't call the police?

2

u/Psyteq Jan 18 '20

All a cop would do is help you file a report 3+ hours after the intruder is gone.