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EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Calvin So, 23, a resident of the rural town of Yuen Long near the border with mainland China, shows his wounds and bruises in a hospital corridor in Hong Kong on July 24, 2019, after he was assaulted on his way back home from a nearby restaurant where he works as a cook by gangs of men, who also set upon demonstrators returning from a huge anti-government march on July 21. - The indiscriminate attack has piled further pressure on Hong Kong's embattled police force -- whom critics accuse of reacting too slowly to the incident -- and the city's leader Carrie Lam. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) / TO GO WITH HongKong-China-protests-police-crime by Yan ZHAO (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images)

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Calvin So, 23, a resident of the rural town of Yuen Long near the border with mainland China, shows his wounds and bruises in a hospital corridor in Hong Kong on July 24, 2019, after he was assaulted on his way back home from a nearby restaurant where he works as a cook by gangs of men, who also set upon demonstrators returning from a huge anti-government march on July 21. - The indiscriminate attack has piled further pressure on Hong Kong's embattled police force -- whom critics accuse of reacting too slowly to the incident -- and the city's leader Carrie Lam. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) / TO GO WITH HongKong-China-protests-police-crime by Yan ZHAO        (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images)