They’ll be able to do whatever they want.” “If law enforcement officers don’t wear anything to show their identity, they’ll become corrupt. Cheung, who was released on bail and has not been charged with wrongdoing. “I don’t want them to be like secret police,” said Mr. He believes he was targeted by the police because he developed a tool that could compare images against a set of photos of officers to find matches - a project he later abandoned. Cheung, who was arrested last week on a suspicion of “conspiring and abetting murder,” subscribes to the “Dadfindboy” channel, although he denied being among its founders as the police have said and he condemned posts calling for violence. Rival pro-government channels seek to unmask protesters in a similar fashion. The channel, “Dadfindboy,” has more than 50,000 subscribers and advocates violence in crude and cartoonish ways.
One fast-growing channel on the social messaging app Telegram seeks and publishes personal information about officers and their families. Many protesters now cover their faces, and they fear that the police are using cameras and possibly other tools to single out targets for arrest.Īnd when the police stopped wearing identification badges as the violence escalated, some protesters began to expose officers’ identities online.
The authorities are tracking protest leaders online and seeking their phones. Cheung had disabled his phone’s facial-recognition login with a quick button mash as soon as they grabbed him.Īs Hong Kong convulses amid weeks of protests, demonstrators and the police have turned identity into a weapon. They shouted, “Wake up!” They pried open his eyes. They grabbed his jaw to force his head in front of his iPhone. HONG KONG - The police officers wrestled with Colin Cheung in an unmarked car.
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