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Update (10:32AM ET): Authorities fired a live round near Victoria Park as a warning to protesters.

Dramatic scenes near Victoria Park as a live round was fired by police skywards as a warning shot to protesters. #hongkongprotests

Video: SCMP/Kao Shan Shan pic.twitter.com/c2RDpUgPYO

— SCMP Hong Kong (@SCMPHongKong) August 31, 2019

Authorties, of course, are calling for calm: “The president calls on protesters to express their calls through peaceful means and hopes all parties can resolve the social conflicts altogether,” said a spokesman for Legislative Council president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen.

Meanwhile, as Bloomberg’s Fion Li reports, the riot police is now sweeping across the subway, in an attempt to make mass arrests.

unprecedented scene – riot police entered multiple stations, apparently trying to make arrests. police didn’t allow press to report. #hongkongprotests#HongKong Masses Defy Police, Show China They’re Ready to Fight https://t.co/JtIZo9EhGJ @bpolitics pic.twitter.com/pxrMMxVmWf

— Fion Li (@fion_li) August 31, 2019

Protesters in Hong Kong returned to the streets in what Bloomberg has called “one of the city’s most violent days in its 13th weekend of social unrest,” after several top organizers were arrested and then released, including Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Andy Chan.

Hong Kong police fired tear gas and sprayed protesters with blue dye from pepper-spray filled water cannons, while charging other protesters with shields and batons.

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