Hong Kong Police carried out another raid on Friday to remove barricades set up by pro-democracy protesters along the shopping district of Mong Kok while most protesters were still asleep at dawn.

The barricades were set up from the main demonstration site to the office of Hong Kong's leader and they have been disrupting the Asian financial hub for the past three weeks.

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The raid, however, was much easier for the part of the police officials as they were able to dismantle the barricades without much resistance unlike the other raids they carried out earlier. This time, there were no violent clashes between the police and the protesters and no arrests have been made.

Eight hundred police officers participated in the said raid and their vans blocked the access points of protesters in Mong Kok, resulting to some protesters packing their supplies to the main demonstration area at the Admiralty district.

Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying, who the citizens are asking to step down as he was picked and backed up by Beijing, released a statement on Thursday expressing his hopes that the government and the protesters could hold a peaceful talk next week in order to defuse the growing tension.

However, the recent clearing of the barricades in Mong Kok has caused the protesters to think otherwise about taking up their leader's offer.

The demonstrations have been led by students who are asking for a full democracy from the Chinese government, which has recently altered its decision of letting Hong Kong choose its own candidates for the upcoming 2017 elections.

The protests were prompted by China's backtracking on its announcement in August that Hong Kong can finally have the chance to pick their own leader. The two parties have also set an agreement of putting up a screening committee including pro-Beijing figures, but that was all also canceled recently.

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