Government officials says ` ` radical '' protesters cause ` ` serious threats to public safety '' Talks between government and protesters to take place soon . Pro - democracy protesters swell to 9,000 in busy Hong Kong commercial district . At the peak of the protest in early October , tens of thousands of people came onto the streets at three locations in Hong Kong -- Admiralty , Causeway Bay and Mong Kok -- to call for universal suffrage . Hundreds of people and a handful of policemen are injured in the clashes .
Government officials says ` ` radical '' protesters cause ` ` serious threats to public safety '' Talks between government and protesters to take place soon . Pro - democracy protesters swell to 9,000 in busy Hong Kong commercial district . Hundreds of people and a handful of policemen are injured in the clashes .