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【时代论坛讯】伞城网上教会（UCC）发起网上联署请愿，要求警方撤回将六月十二日警民冲突定性为「暴动」的指控。截至香港时间今天（六月十五日）中午，已收集逾五万个联署。

声明强烈讉责警务处处长卢伟聪粗疏地立论，基于局部警民冲突而把数万人的和平示威定性为暴动，并向市民发动不合比例的暴力袭击。

声明指出，警察在没有事先警告下开枪，有中学教师被射中头部；另有多位市民中枪，头部受伤。此外，警方被拍摄到向记者发射催泪弹，挑釁记者「记你XX」，挑釁牧师「叫你的耶稣出来见我」。

（6月15日1:45pm更新）

中英文声明全文如下：

谴责警方将和平示威定性暴动
我们不是暴动！要求警方撤回「暴动」声明

6月12日于政府总部前的和平集会，因部份立法会防线受冲击，发生警民冲突，警方借此局部冲突，向多处和平集会民众施放催泪弹，发射布袋弹及橡胶弹，向记者施袭。有中学教师在警察没有警告下开枪被射中头部，另有多位市民中枪，头部受伤。警方被拍摄到向记者发射催泪弹，挑釁记者「记你老母」，挑釁牧师「叫你的耶稣出来见我」，部份警员已沦为「暴徒」，向手无寸鐡的和平示威者施以不合比例的暴力。

政务司司长张建宗已表明将金钟冲突定性为暴动，以及开枪发射橡胶子弹的决定完全是警方的决定。我们强烈讉责警务处处长卢伟聪粗疏地立论，基于局部警民冲突而把数万人的和平示威定性为暴动，并向市民发动不合比例的暴力袭击。我们要求警务处处长卢伟聪撤回将是次集会中的冲突定性为「暴动」的不合理决定。

我们是和平集会的见证人！我们呼吁见证当日和平示威集会人仕加入见证人行列！联署要求警方撤回有关「暴动」的失实判断！

Condemnation of police classification of peaceful protests as ‘riots’
Demand retraction of ‘riot’ classification by the police

Police fired tear gas, bean bag rounds, and rubber bullets towards the peaceful assembly on June 12, even attacking journalists. Their justification of the use of force was that part of the police barricade outside the Legislative Council Complex was charged, and that violent conflicts had occurred.

A secondary school teacher was shot in the head without any display of warning by the police. Many other citizens were shot in the head. Police were filmed firing tear gas directly towards journalists, and provoking them saying “Journal your mom” (“Journalist my ass”). The police also provoked church pastors by saying “Ask your Jesus to come out and see me.” Part of the police force have demonstrated the same qualities of thugs, using an excessive amount of force and violence against the unarmed peaceful protestors.

Chief Secretary of Hong Kong Matthew Cheung said the decision to declare the conflict as a ‘riot’ and the use of rubber bullets was solely made by the Hong Kong Police Force.We strongly condemn Commissioner of Police Stephen Lo Wai Chung’s decision to declare the conflict during the peaceful protest taken part by tens of thousands of citizens as a ‘riot’, and for taking excessive violent action against citizens. We demand Commissioner of Police Stephen Lo Wai Chung retract the irrational classification of the conflict as ‘riots’.

We are the witnesses of the peaceful assembly. We call for all who had witnessed the peaceful assembly and protest to become witnesses. Petition for the police to retract their inaccurate judgement to classify the events as a ’riot’.