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According to Hong Kong's "Sing Tao Network", the American bank lawyer who attacked the police at the MTR station in Causeway Bay in December last year was convicted of attacking the police, and today (6th) he was sentenced to 4 months and 2 weeks in prison.
Screenshot of The Hong Kong "Sing Tao Network" report
During the december 7 black riots of the previous year, when an off-duty police officer passed through the MTR Causeway Bay Station, he found a man suspected of "tripping" (fare evasion) and chasing him, but was stopped by an American bank lawyer, Samuel Phillip Bickett, who pulled the off-duty officer down and pressed his knees to his chest. He was charged with one count of assault on a police officer and one count of ordinary assault on alternate charges, which were earlier heard in the Eastern District Magistrate's Court in Hong Kong, where the judge dismissed his absurdity in defending himself as "lawful self-defense" and convicted him of assault on a police officer.
Philip, an American banking lawyer who attacked the police
According to the report, the case was pronounced in the Eastern District Court of Hong Kong today, and Judge Lam Xiwei said that after the defendant pushed down the police officer, he continued to hit his right hand, left chest and other parts, and even stepped on his stomach, resulting in multiple injuries to the police officer. Lin Xiwei bluntly denounced the defendant for "acting violently", posing a serious threat to public order, which the court must not tolerate, and the defendant's behavior will increase the potential risk of violence or cause a larger disturbance in the busy subway station.
Lin Xiwei also said that the law has a responsibility to protect police officers who are performing their duties from harm, otherwise the law and public order will be endangered, and the court must impose punitive and deterrent sentences, so the defendant was finally sentenced to 4 months and 2 weeks in prison.
According to the report, Philippe settled in Hong Kong in 2013 and served as the director of the anti-corruption compliance department of the investment bank in 2019, earning HK$140,000 per month, but resigned in April this year due to this case.