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US lawyer convicted of assaulting HK police officer

HONG KONG: An American lawyer working in Hong Kong was convicted of assaulting a policeman on Tuesday when he intervened in a confrontation between the officer and members of the public during political unrest two years ago. Samuel Phillip Bickett, 37, a former compliance director at the Bank of America was remanded into custody after a magistrate found him guilty of assaulting Senior Constable Yu Shu-sang on December 7, 2019, local media reported.