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Now that I am home, time for a recap of #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา for those who are still awake.
At 2pm the volunteer guards from #Ratsadon began to dismantle the police barriers on Sam Sen. Video via @JamesJWilsonBkk with me at @ThaiEnquirer who were on the scene first. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
The police retaliated with water cannons around 2:15pm. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา video via @JamesJWilsonBkk at @ThaiEnquirer
By 2:30pm, smoke bombs were being deployed by the protestors while they retreated as the police were gearing up with gas mask, shields and batons. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
Police then began to distribute rubber bullets around 3pm. No reliable reports of them using it today. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา video via @JamesJWilsonBkk at @ThaiEnquirer
I got on the scene on the side of the yellow shirts wearing royalists at 5:20pm. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
Projectiles including rocks and bottles were being thrown around 5:30pm. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
More projectiles were being thrown around 5:30pm. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
Yellow shirt wearing royalists giving the middle finger to the pro-democracy protestors. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
Front line protestors on both sides calling for a truce around 5:45pm #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
Time for me to get on the other side of the barrier after the truce around 5:45pm. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
After the truce, I decided to go back and check the military camp behind the yellow shirt wearing royalists where women and children on this side took shelters. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
The walk to #Ratsadon. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
After I got through one front line, time to go to another. Pro-democracy protestors were bringing up supplies of water and helmets to the frontline towards the parliament. #ม็อบ7พฤศจิกา
Got to the front line towards the parliament and it was time for a shower. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
Got them purple rain too. You can also find this video on @ThaiEnquirer and many others that I have not use here. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
Another day at work. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
Before the breach. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
This guy sums it up. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
I have retreated to the front line towards the pier where a negotiation was going on between protest leaders and the police. Some of the protestors have been detained and they want them to be released. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
I got back to Kiek Kai intersection at 7pm which became home base for pro-democracy protestors. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
With the news that the protestors have breached the barriers towards the Parliament, I rushed back to joined them. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
The crowd pushing towards the parliament around 7:20pm. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
The pro-democracy protestors got to the front of the parliament around 7:30 pm. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
The pro-democracy protestors confronting he police in front of the parliament around 7:30pm. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
Bringing the barriers down. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
The protestors coming from the other side of the barriers. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
The defiance. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
And in the middle of all of this, an ambulance came, I hope the person made it out okay. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
At this point, I need to breath, so I decided to pull back out to Kiak Kai intersection but it was not a rest I was hoping for. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
By the time I got to the intersection, the injured were already being transferred around 8:30pm. I heard fireworks and gunshots before I got to higher ground. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
By that time, more and more protestors were being sent to the hospital near by, some with gunshot wound. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
More injured protestors were being sent to a near by hospital. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
After things calm down why not a karaoke on the street by some high school protesters. #ม็อบ17พฤศจิกา
