A mass of Hong Kong police fended off an attempt by protesters to once again shut down the city’s airport.

Police checked people traveling to the airport Saturday for passports and tickets, preventing demonstrators from making it to the airport. On buses and trains headed to the Chek Lap Kok Airport, where Reuters reported cops and members of the press outnumbered passengers, police checked bags to weed out protesters. At least two protesters were removed from a bus in handcuffs, the Associated Press reported.

Outside the airport, cops told civilians who wanted to pick up family members to go away.

“It’s absolutely ridiculous. We have our 80-year-old relative coming off the flight. How will she get home without our help?”a man named Donny told Reuters. “These police don’t listen to anything we have to say. We are normal people.”

Protesters occupied the arrivals hall last month, halting and delaying hundreds of flights, amid a series of clashes with police.

Several hundred angry protesters, many in masks, converged at a subway station in the Tung Chung area adjacent to the airport, where police last week were filmed beating protesters on a subway train as they cowered on the floor.

They chanted slogans and called police “murderers” amid widespread anger over alleged brutality against demonstrators during three months of protests in the city that have become increasingly violent.

Activists, angry that the MTR closed stations to stop protesters from gathering and demanding CCTV footage of the beatings, tore down signs, broke turnstiles, set fires on the street and splashed graffiti on the walls.

Some demonstrators gathered outside a police station and set a makeshift barricade on fire, but overall there was less violence than last week, when cops used tear gas and water cannon in an attempt to quell huge crowds.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced concessions this week to try to end the protests, including formally scrapping a hugely unpopular extradition bill, but many said they were too little, too late.

The demonstrations, which began in June, have long since broadened into calls for more democracy and many protesters have pledged to fight on.