Hong Kong Riot Police, Protesters Clash - October 19, 2014

Hong Kong riot police battled with thousands of pro-democracy protesters for control of the city's streets late Saturday and early Sunday, using pepper spray and batons to hold back defiant activists who returned to a protest zone that officers had partially cleared. The clashes are leading to a deepening sense of impasse between a government with limited options and a pro-democracy movement increasingly willing to confront police. The worst political crisis in Hong Kong since Britain...

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