The city was almost destroyed in 2019. Remember the molotov cocktails? The petrol bombs? The universities that turned into war zones? The vandalism of all kinds of public property?
I don't like many of the things the Hong Kong government is doing, but I can understand why they feel they need to do it.
Unfortunately it's like sports teams. People's lenses are colored by which team they're on, and it's hard to be objective.
I'm actually sad that the one country two systems experiment looks like it's over, at least the political side, not the economic side. But you can't run a city if there are months of people rioting on the streets.
I don't like many of the things the Hong Kong government is doing, but I can understand why they feel they need to do it.