Only Love Can Fix Those Wounds

This is already the 60+th day of the umbrella movement in Hong Kong. Things have stood still ever since the government met with the student leaders. There was no breakthrough, just repetitive rejection from the government and politicians as expected. Then a few major brutal "clean up" by the police after some groups (including one minibus driver group) sought for legal actions to disperse the protesters on street, which has successfully given the legitimacy for the government to put a closure to this revolution.

Instead of adding fuel to either side, I'm here to spread the news of love and justice that I saw from a touching picture from the Ferguson protests. The tearful young demonstrator was struggling with issues of police brutality and racism. Looking at the picture, I was so impressed that an officer (Barnum) who was ordered to help with traffic and crowd control in the protest area could display true humanity to a protester. When the police officer asked the young kid (Devonte Hart) why he was crying, he ingenuously expressed his concerns of the level of police brutality toward young black kids. Racial discrimination is never a new thing in the US and it has not been solved. I'm sure everyone can see the issue but not everyone can be brave enough to address it, especially if you are the privileged ones. The most cherished thing was that the officer was humble enough to admit the dreadful reality and to apologise for man kind, to apologise for the social system, to apologise for something not within his control.  The moment of pure humanity was displayed as the two racially different hugged, which broke down the social constraints.

On the other side of the globe, there are also young protestors on the cold and rough street of Hong Kong, gently asking for true democracy. They are suffering from the same level of pain with police brutality and social injustice.  If only could I see one police officer putting aside his/her baton and admit the authentic social problem in Hong Kong, the scenario would be completely different from what I have been seeing now.  Our society is incomplete and imperfect and there's no shame to admit it. It may takes years to come to term with the pernicious effects of the pseudo-universal suffrage in 2017 in Hong Kong, yet without acknowledging its vicious influences, reconciliation would never occur.  Sadly speaking, on the contrary, images of police abusing innocent civilians and the use of unnecessary extreme armed forces to the minimal-equipped protestors were spreading.  How could we stop the society from splitting? How could we change the saturated scenario now? My answer is follow the Ferguson officer, drop your weapon, admit the fault, share love, share hugs.  

Only Love can fix those wounds.