Hong Kong police arrest 209 protesters, demolish main camp
Hong Kong authorities demolished a protest camp Thursday at the heart of the city's 2 and a half month pro-democracy movement but scores of activists taken away by police vowed their fight for genuine elections wasn't over.
Hundreds of police officers armed with chain saws and bolt cutters methodically dismantled barricades, tore down canopies and removed banners in a daylong operation to shut the protest site sprawled across a normally busy highway next to the specially administered Chinese city's business district.
Police said 209 people were arrested for unlawful assembly and obstructing police officers.
