COSTELLO: All right. We're going to take you out live to Hong Kong right now where pro-democracy protesters are facing off against police all week long. Today, police are protecting those protesters. Police formed a human chain around a protest site holding back angry crowds. That group says the occupy protesters are ruining their businesses and making the city a mess. The protest leaders are blaming the government for today's clashes. Joining me now, one of the protesters. His name is Edward Tsoi. He joins me live from Hong Kong. Thank you for being with me, Edward.</s>EDWARD TSOI, PROTESTER: Hey, how are you?</s>COSTELLO: I'm good. So what happened today? Why did police have to form this human chain in your mind?</s>TSOI: Today, because there's a group of anti-occupy movement protesters, and going through the street and start harassing the occupying students, and they beat up students. Some even molested female students. But the police just stand there and did nothing. So, some of our students have to retreat right now. So, today, we lost hope on our government and the police, because they launched tear gas on peaceful demonstrators like us, our students groups, but they did nothing when the anti-occupy protesters beat up our students and tried to molest female students.</s>COSTELLO: Who do you think is behind this anti-occupy movement?</s>TSOI: It's quite complicated. There's lots of rumors saying that those people who went on the street and tried to end the tide (ph) of Occupy movement, they got paid for that. And they'll get paid even more if they successfully beaten up some students. So I don't know who's the organizer behind, but seemingly the police are colluding with these anti-occupy protester because they did nothing to stop these anti-occupy protesters from beating up our students, even though the police are just standing next to them.
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