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The cops were likely doused with ABC powder by their fellow cops, and got away with light burns (heavy clothing helps). Lee Chi-cheung seems to have been hurt badly. The protester with a stick and swimming board was saved by surgeons (the bullet missed his heart).
A side note: some HK brutality was outsourced to the "white shirts", whose allegiance could be denied. (In HK, a black shirt meant you were a protester, while a crowd of young men in white shirts with sticks - was usually associated with triads doing a favour to the city government. Their most publicized "feat" was the mass beating at Yuen Long subway station.) Overall, Hong Kongers seem to have done their protest with "comparatively little violence" (relative to their total number).
When mass protest occurred in Chile, I was busy and missed the news. I managed to register what was happening, but no details.
An example of the cost of a very severe protest which stopped short of a war, would be the Maidan events in Ukraine. The cost was 108 civilians and 13 police killed. A big number for a protest - mostly bullet wounds - but a small number compared to what is taken by a war.