Men wear bras to protest assault verdict
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MEN wearing bras were among around 100 people protesting in Hong Kong yesterday after a woman was sentenced to three and a half months in jail for assaulting a police officer “with her breast.”
They gathered outside police headquarters in Wan Chai district, with some holding up bras and others wearing them over their tops.
“We better watch out as one day police might accuse us of attacking with our penis or buttock,” a male protester wearing a black bra told the crowd.
Retired teacher James Hon, 66, wearing a pink bra over his white polo shirt, told reporters: “It’s the first time to wear a bra in my entire life.
“We have come to this rather odd method to tell the world how ridiculous it is,” he said.
The crowd chanted: “Breasts are not weapons — give back our breast freedom” and “Shame on police” as a representative handed over a petition to a police officer.
Ng Lai-ying, 30, was sentenced on Thursday for assaulting a police officer during a protest against traders crossing from China’s mainland in March.
The clerk was found guilty of using her chest to bump against the arm of Chief Inspector Chan Ka-po. She was allowed bail pending an appeal.
“The ruling is absurd. How can breasts be a weapon? We are angry but we also fear that this precedent exploits women’s right to take part in protests,” Ng Cheuk-ling, a member of the Hong Kong Women’s Coalition on Equal Opportunities, told reporters.
“Police must review their guidelines to handle female protesters,” she said.
Ng Lai-ying had previously told the court that she yelled “indecent assault” out of fear immediately after chief inspector Chan’s hand landed on her left breast when he failed to grab the strap of her bag, the South China Morning Post reported.
But magistrate Michael Chan Pik-kiu said she “used her female identity to trump up the allegation that the officer had molested” her, calling that a malicious act and harming the officer’s reputation, the newspaper reported.
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