On Jul 1, 2021, a 50-year-old man, Leung Kin-fai, stabbed a police officer outside the Sogo department store in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong. He then committed suicide by stabbing himself in the chest. He died at the scene.
On Dec. 7, the jury reached a verdict and ruled Leung died of suicide.
According to Leung’s notepad and suicide note, which contained criticism of the Hong Kong police, he questioned whether the police still had the right to maintain law and order after what they had done in the 721 Yuen Long Attack (suspected triad members dressed in white attacked with steel rods, civilians in the MTR station on streets on July 21, 2019, while police officers refused to come to their aid)….