No need to go all the way to Hong Kong for examples. There's been plenty of violence by security forces with 100's of heavily wounded and a few deaths in the yellow vest protests in France recently. Here's a partial list up until January this year: https://www.liberation.fr/apps/2019/01/la-carte-des-gilets-j...

We're talking people losing their hand(s), eye(s) or dying here.

Same for the Barcelona protests (non yellow vests).

You'll have to search quite a bit to find articles on those if you live in "the West", but yeah they do happen.

On topic: if only Macron and Winnie the Pooh could somehow circumvent the encryption of those pesky protesters...

Losing a hand or eye in exchange for personal freedom is much better than staying (relatively) healthy for life in prison or until executed.

Individual rights were never won or kept by lying down.