In mid 2020, the controversial Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019 sparked an unprecedented intense clashes between the rival camps in the legislature and record scales of protests in June which later escalated into months-long anti-government protests. On 1 July 2019, hundreds of protesters stormed the Legislative Council Complex ransacked and vandalised the interior with anti-government slogans. Chief Executive Carrie Lam initially said she would "suspend" the proposed bill, finally promised to withdraw the bill after 13 weeks of protests on 4 September.