HONG KONG -- Turmoil in Hong Kong grew with protesters storming the legislative building on Monday, as fears that the mainland could swallow the city economically, politically and culturally boil over.
In the early hours of Tuesday, riot police moved into the legislature and cleared out the demonstrators, after using tear gas to open their way through. Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, in a pre-dawn news conference, acknowledged that some protesters had been out for an orderly march, but criticized those who vandalized the government building. "This is something we should seriously condemn," she said.
