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Is is a pot ready is ready? Okay, How long about one minute two minutes? How long how long? What no don't, I mean, let's do it over the telephone. 10 98 76. Okay. Alright. Thanks. Bye. Or at any moment now, you might be live without them telling us and I won't know that by the way. Unless they tell us. Several Nine different places, Hey, Michael, you can go. okay hold on go ahead and do a 10 count. That left to unknown numbers of casualties. there were at least 20 -, six ambulances and medical vehicles out here and you can see that this is actually a fire Department where some of them came from because it's right beside where the really close to where the stampede occurred. and so that's why we're here to start right here. So we're gonna walk some of the battlefield where I live streamed on that Monday night, it was the heaviest intense most intense fighting we have seen so And I've been to well over 80 of the major protest and so that in that Monday night was definitely the most intense and people who followed my livestream know that there's been a lot of intense nice, but that was the most there had to be. I would say at least a thousand tear gas canisters shot and also at least a thousand mile Throne. Also the police were throwing the police were not throwing Molotov, but the police were shooting rubber batons like rubber bullets and rubber batons and bean bag rounds and huge amounts of tear gas and throwing tear gas grenades as well and and Liberators were throwing Molotov not on the police, but they're using them as a buffer to keep the police off of them. So the streets were just filled with class. We'll talk about that later, but so here's Cody Imma let Cody introduced himself. He was just on the heritage by the way foundation about it was about four or five days ago. right. Yeah. It was a great interview. You can find it so Cody please speak. How's it going guys. we're close to the intersection Nathan Road in Waterloo Road at two Eastern. So I don't know if you wanna talk about here. Yeah, we'll go. we'll go in and talk about some of the things that happened. for those who have seen my live stream on let's walk down there. Cody on the eighteenth of November. there was about four hours of straight live stream and then we started having signal problems. So I've got a lot of video that was either later or it was not live streamed at all because we couldn't get on the couldn't get back on live stream and so. So the Stampede we're gonna talk about the Stampede, which is something that Cody personally witnessed and I did not personally witness the stampede, but we saw all the attack leading up to it and then the aftermath we were here. Eric and I were here, but we just happen to be maybe a hundred meters from the Stampede. We're actually not sure exactly where we're sorry about that. We're not actually sure precisely where we were you, you might have seen that viral video. I took of the vans rushing very hard. Into the liberators, which I've been calling Patriots, but Eric came up with a a better name Liberators and he's Hong Kong her let's see if other Hong Kong like that name. So we're coming up on Nathan Road here. here's the old burned out facility that was attacked by liberators for I don't know actually what it was. I don't remember maybe it was a Starbucks. I don't remember some Starbucks have been attacked because they the they're under ownership local ownership anyway. Back in the US, some Beijing's friendly people that do not like the the cause for freedom here so you can see we're at Waterloo Road and we get that sign in there. If I can get this camera right now, Waterloo Road. We're lot Waterloo Road in Nathan and and this is this is not worth it. This is not where the stampede happened and I'll let him started here it start up here. This is where Eric and I were 200 yards down the Street. So just to give you a visual Nathan Road runs to the North and South and Waterloo East and West, the police are on the South side of Nathan Road. The protesters on the North side of the protesters of Liberators were pushing the police back. the police were pushing back. It was back and forth for quite a while pretty intense the corner across the Street. here was sort of the very front line of the police, if not sometimes even a little bit further back. so when they work for the back, you would see protesters run across the Street. Right at the very front, maybe it was 200, but they're stretched out and they're in depth group there and I think probably the one where the biggest problem because they were so tight. when it started, It's probably two to 300 people. Remember there was over a hundred arrested and or or injured on the streets all over that night with thousands of one thousands. Yeah. So there were a load and so right and so basically. I'm sorry we're busy and so basically we were we were here for quite a long time. The heavy fighting was going on here and and there was a lot of glass on the Street. If you remember my live streaming, I was saying the Street is slippery and there was a lot of bricks on the Street that the liberators were using to either throwing at the police or using as obstacles. so the police run at them. it slows them down. but there was a huge amount of glass because the the liberators must have thrown at least a thousand contain at least. See a lot of em on my live stream and so at one point and then we'll walk across the Street to Cody Spanish point when it took off and let's walk down here and at one point if you remember my live stream. It might be hard for you to remember this but I was at this corner and liberators were coming up right. The tape is up now. The tape was not here on that Monday night and so they were using this in this gutted building here for as advantage and covered to throw all tops at the police and so I was right there live streaming and then the police attacked and many people escaped down this direction and now we're gonna we're gonna turn around in a minute and walk the other direction where Cody was and then he'll talk again. so I ran down. And went right around this corner for cover and this is where many of the the the liberators safely escaped was down this direction so they were not part of the Stampede right, but I went for cover right here and I turned right back around which Tommy Walker actually has me in his video, he could see it happening and there was so much confusion that one of the liberators that was a woman young woman. She was running straight at me and then turned around and started running back at the police. I can actually understand because he speaks American with a southern accent. He's a merchant Mariner, but he's come over here to help. First aid and he was actually on the Heritage Foundation about four days ago. It was a great interview. I put it on my Facebook. so if you scroll down, you can see his interview. he was perfectly. It's very very accurate and he's only been here since November first, but he really nailed it accurately so we'll cross here so you might remember during my live stream. there was a cable that the liberators stretched out between these between that corner in the corner right here, but it didn't do any effect actually, but everywhere around here was glass glass, glass glass and very slippery. Remember it was dark and at one point I took cover behind that little thing right there. A lot of the journalists were here on this corner, but the corner was a little dangerous, so I I stay away from corners, usually and so And we're gonna go to where Cody was and we wanna hear exactly what Cody has to say. You'll remember that video I made of the vans rushing the the Liberators was around here somewhere, but we're not exactly sure where it was. We could have to reconstruct it. We've actually had a difficult time reconstructing everything that happened, but we haven't. it's not as if we put a huge effort into it, everybody's busy with other things but we are telling the basics of what happened. We're not doing a one. you know step by step forensics that would take a long time to put together in this. Continues, I haven't been able to figure out exactly what time this happened. I keep an audio log as I go during the day. whenever there's a law. I'm recording just talking about what exactly transpired. but during that stampede, there was so much confusion after that. so much going on and of course, the police were chasing us away from the edge of that. I got forgotten for probably an hour so I can get a rough time with the exact started the stampede, but as far as an exact time. I'm trying to get in touch with the photographer. I know it's there took pictures and see if he has time stamps. Don't let me get run over Cody. I hate when we survived all these other stuff and they get run over by a car. Yeah, something like that, you know how life goes life has a little tricks like that. it plays all the time they can survive the Titanic and then get killed by a dog or something of a chihuahua. So we're going to the position where Cody was when it all started. The the the the the final push that made the really serious stampede. Remember since July I've been warning about stampedes and sometimes during my life feeds. I'll say this is a bad condition for Stampede and I'm always moving out. Actually you can see not long before the stampede just before the vans did their rush. You can hear me say on my live feed, not the live feed that was ripped, but my uncut version, which is not been published yet. I'm actually saying I'm in a bad position for like a stampede and I move out of the way. Being pushed to the South by the protesters pushing back towards the North massive amounts of others. 一 二 三 他们 We're going on all over and you're throwing a bottle of liquid on it just stuck at the top a lot of. And then we focus so much. these are young kids are not playing out here in the battle and the National hit the Wall that was next. Yeah, let's walk your feet. I'll show you where it started. So like I said earlier doesn't really being successful, pushing the police back and we all knew that night few days prior, police have used before authorized so tensions were running very high. In addition, there were police there that we're carrying natural right. Yeah. There was an M 16 and there's six hour five sixteens and that sort of thing just just across the way so the police through this. Flash bang It's directly into the crowd risking injury protesters and when those went off, I was standing over here that's a hundred feet from where they threw them 杨 美 三 The crowd. I was standing here on this corner. Our protocol is first day. We have the best on the Red cross on leave us alone. so myself and police leave the medics alone. You know better than that. Yeah, you leave the giant American flag. I was saying I can't I haven't better just happened to jump into the same right. police ran by us and then we walk this way now. okay. So I came down after the police and we came down this. Yeah. okay. Later, we'll get to questions by the way so this until you went down this alley full of these, but this runs basically it's between Nathan Road in Portland Street or Portman Road over on the other side and it goes back to fifth Street where the file I got okay myself. We walk down here hoping to get past the police line and the protesters had three groups. We find that there's a lot of confusion. We didn't know what was happening. We saw a lot of people run. 就是 倒 小编 是错的 拍 So this is where the pilot was, and there was a huge amount of bags and what not here right here and how how deep was it? I mean how many people back did it go That way. I mean it was like six or seven people deep on Heights right, but how close the depth? Yeah maybe eight layers as far as eight layers high. Maybe I could tell I tried to go around the FDR station because so immediately we were the first ones on scene immediately reaction was gets out and looking. 下一次 手 So I went to the ground, I saw there. 走 Realistically, maybe three minutes maybe two and a half we're trying to pull it straight in that time. I would ask we have five to six protesters out. you could see if you I did a press conference. 吃饭 Maybe six kids we got out and of those six, probably only two or three were actually police. How did the police treat the medics when the police came over? So one of my friends here was the first day he had. We've gotten there before us and it just won't be quite proud of firefighters and first day of filming people out. there is enough. no more. I can get it. so my first day friend was directly behind and he was taking the kids. We pulled out trying to get them the fire from the police came around the MPR station. He was the first one they've had they immediately pepper sprayed from point blank. Are the bad guys and the police are the good guys is something that somebody told you and you were asking me about it. So I've asked John Valentine, who has asked me for an interview to go to my Facebook Live and watch us now. Here's Cody talking about what he witnessed and the police pepper sprayed a medic as he was coming to save kids lives that were about eight deep in a stampede pile up. So who's the good guys? Yeah. that's that question for yourself, but there's more after they've ever sprayed him. He retreated they came in they're probably 7678 minutes. there, including many which are women and. Limited fight and then we had five or six firefighters. I would say remind you this all a lot of confusion and a lot of stress. so I do my best to remember exactly what I made so they grab those fire vests. The right police came in at least seven or eight, and there were more right around the corner. They came in beating their night sticks on their shields. They've clearly small rides, Gladiator style rides, beating the night sticks on the steel walls of the MPR station, shouting at us. They grabbed us by our vets. They pulled us away. They got for 90 - six right up in our faces. They grab one of these girls and through her to Through this young she's probably 20 through right to the ground. we had to pick her up and carry her away when she hurt not seriously. but she was not a Medicare just helping to save people's lives or she was. She was a medic. they threw on the ground. Let's see this is normal by the way. Yeah. this happens all the time. Yeah. earlier, I said the police run by run by us the two American typically we've had no troubles being chased. 这是 开始 Around there and you can see on on videos that I've already published they were pulling out casualties like zero 400 on the night of the week. 我们 A hospital we're talking about. Friends here with doctors and it's not like they're doing actual teachers. Many obstacles alright, so let's let go ahead. That was the intersection where we're standing where the battle happened. so all those protesters when the flash management from Brandon absolute match this way to the North. many of them continue directly on down Nathan Road. Those who didn't those who try to turn you can see the MPR Station right here Where did the police throughout the flash bang just a beginner section just at the intersection and again as protesters managed to cross the intersection, you get to the South side, the southern crosswalk and really push the police back, but we're really making progress and that's where the police had none of it. Directly into the crowd again, Cody mentioned earlier and this is very important in the flash. bangs are a sort of grenade that are used, especially in a clearing buildings and that sort of thing and they cause a lot of they're very loud and very bright and so and they have submissions in there. So it's like bang Bang. Bang. Bang Bang Bang Super loud my much louder than any legal fireworks in the United States right like a hundred times and so and so a lot of. Because Hong Kong most people have never touched a gun in their life and they've never seen a flash bang before I didn't cross my mind because I fired so many guns and turns so many flash bangs and seen him in the wars. I knew exactly what it was, But then there was a lot of people asking me later like who shot was anybody shot and I was like no. I didn't hear any shots. It didn't cross my mind. They confuse the flash bangs for gunshots, but but Cody recognize that instantly so that was a problem through the flash, bang and people thought they were being shot at by the police and the police of art. Four people on other days and they had in 16 and the six hour five sixteens and everybody could see them go ahead. I thought it was but seeing no casualties on the Street. Of course, the streets are literally, so it's possible that the Greeks. Domino effect Yeah, and also a lot of people are carrying umbrellas and you often see those not often, but every time those will be dropped everywhere. Well, there's the file up here. There's a picture out there reporter it was here at the time Snap a picture just as the police came to the first line of protesters pulling me away and it gives a reference to the height. You can see myself standing there and then the protesters just above my head and then a massive amount of em was just pile on top of them because most of these. She's not elected democratically, so she's appointed and I believe just not long ago, maybe an hour or two. I'm not sure about that. but she said that they're not that there's still a sage on a polyp. The polytechnic University actually we should go down there after this and and and see how it's going down there and so the the the liberators have been hold up there since Sunday two Sundays ago, so this is about the tenth day now right soon going into the. And you know I was there way early this morning at about left in about three or four something I don't remember and and so here comes the number one. Yeah. This is a sign. I'll never look at the number on the same again, but this is important too because during the big dramas you know these umbrellas do washed down the road and they caused also cost people to trip. It's really important to first of all wear boots. During the serious compressions, which then lead to to stampedes and serious injuries, a lot of people every time you see shoes in the road, you know I've been saying this since July you know, walk the battlefield afterwards and you'll find often many shoes if you find any shoes that that's because of compression or a stampede occurred. I've seen this in Iraq, Afghanistan and Thailand and now Hong Kong so wear boots. If you're gonna come out to these heavy possible stampede and Areas Cody Do you have anything else to say and which we can move on over to Paulo? We'll turn it off until we get there. Alright. Oh actually, let's see if there's any questions for you and and that because Cody's from North Carolina and came all the way over here to. 贴 反 政治 味 啊 所以你要 那块 Let's see. Okay. I'm reading some comment. I'm trying to see if there's any questions for Cody. John Valentine is asking you says I'm looking forward to talking to you and Cody if possible. I'll ask Cody you wanna talk with John Valentine interview. He's he's send a message about an hour or two ago saying that you know people are basically doing the information more saying that the the liberators are writers and all these sorts of things there is violence, but I mean they're basically fighting a wolf back up. That's part of the reason we can't figure out. Actually happening when you're thousands of miles. Yeah, not to mention that the 50 cent army is what it's called the you know the Chinese information Warriors are really strong out there trying to spin this translate in Chinese. What's that I'm a cat who called you a poop cat approved cat that's that must be translate well in the Mandarin cuz an American. It sounds kinda funny to translate the articles you Google trends situation. Yeah, more than 70 protesters actually it was more than a hundred and I've got a lot of that on my video because remember Cody witnessed. I see what I'm I'm reading it from Mike Gong. And if you're a journalist coming over here, bring a real mask, I like it in 50 is the best that I had in 55 zero in five zero is made by Avon and then when you leave, please give it to somebody here and let them keep it and bring a real helmet like Kevlar like like that will stop you know, 30 -, eight and even K so if they're range and please leave those with people when Mike Individual first aid kits Mike Dunn, a lot of us carry em but in reality there's so many medics out here a lot of people don't because there are loads of medics. yeah and now that the real rifles have come out. It can be good to have tourniquets anymore questions for Cody before we shut off and we'll move over to Polly Polly Technic University. Concerning okay, Michael Shawn's stop stock If it's German is saying concerning the damn the demand for EMT. how many foreign MT have already come to assist. I don't know yeah I I don't I I think Cody and his friends. I only saw Cody and one more of his friends were there were four of us first for two weeks this year. everyone we talked to as far as we could see we were only foreign first day expressive do that there is another. Random Yoko they published in Japanese and I don't read Japanese. I say if you have any training or you're a doctor or you're not even you can't come over for a long period of time come over to the idea to meet up with people and training that can help them and also bringing supplies service of lives that are harder to begin with others. a lot of general medical supplies. they have no problems getting out of your country. They're prepared to sponsor that sort of thing, but some supplies difficult to find just because. 走 Genocide because many of the Hong Kong have left and they live in Canada now in the United States over in United Kingdom, Australia and so they're just a lot of them have moved out and then they're being replaced by mainland Chinese. Alright Cody and there's a lot of quite. There's a hundred and 40 - nine just on my page and there will be a lot of others that I'm having a hard time opening. Okay Move Mike Closer closer to Cody Alright He's got a But he's been quite right now. Alright, let's see alright. 嗯 Station on the Western side, that's this station right here. Yup. Alright, so we're gonna go ahead and shut off and you're still on right now and stop that and. Stop that.
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