About 100 protesters remained holed up in Hong Kong Polytechnic University as police laid siege to the campus.
Chris Tang, Hong Kong's new police commissioner, said in an interview that police alone couldn't end the violence.
Tang, who took office Tuesday, succeeding Stephen Lo, said in an interview with the South China Morning Post that the spreading violence was coming"" and said everyday residents were partly to blame through their silence and tolerance. "If everyone had come out earlier to condemn the violence, society would not have turned into this state in five months," Tang said.
"I totally disagree that our officers are out of control and have used excessive force," he said."We use force when there is violence. Many of our officers have been brutally attacked. They [draw their guns] to protect themselves, not to suppress the crowd."
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