By the time I realised what was happening, there were a few hundred policemen in riot-gear standing in rows, blocking the street that leads toward the Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). I climbed up on a fence (camera view about 3.5m off the ground) to see what was happening and to take photos.

The police would cycle around every now and then, with some from the back heading to the front, and vice versa. The front-line of police were replaced like a conveyer-belt. A row of police lined up against the fence on one side of the street would shuffle sideways, and the others, being replaced, shuffled behind other front-line police. Reinforcements would occasionally come and line up at the back. There were plenty more police, not in riot gear, in the surrounding streets, though they would occasionally get ‘dressed up’ and join the lines. From what I could see, the riot gear consisted of plastic shields (full length and small circular ones), helmets with visors and neck-protectors. Some carried batons and pepperspray and some carried some sort of rifle, presumably for teargas, though I’m not sure.

As far as I could see, there wasn’t much confrontation, though watching the TV news it seems that there was some. Later, I saw that a lot of the plastic shields were heavily scratched, perhaps from the bamboo poles that ATV said were used to ram the wall. There were also nails on the ground. Pepperspray was used. Legislator Leung Kwok-hung was among those hit.

Earlier, a lot (around a hundred) of the Korean farmers had jumped into the water, wearing bright orange life-vests.

I saw one Korean farmer lying on the ground near the water. He was taken away on a flat board with his body strapped down and his head held in place with a brace. I’m not sure what happened to him.

At 7:45pm, a small group of Korean farmers sat down right in front of the police ‘wall,’ and said that they would give the police three hours to release five other farmers that had been taken into custody. After that, they would “not wait.” I went home for dinner at that stage, and later saw that the other farmers had been released and the farmers had dispersed.