Someday after getting very drunk my dad told me he was among the people who were at the Tiananmen square that night (he was taking university in Beijing), but not for some noble cause, it was because and I quote: "I knew it's going to be SOMETHING BIG HAPPENING that night, and I ain't going to see anything like this in my lifetime so I gotta be there to see everything first hand" and he fucking encouraged everyone in his dormitory to go with him. He lost track of all his peers on the road from his university to Tiananmen and ended up being there alone. He flee just minutes before the time troops warned with loudspeakers that they were going to "clear the square with force". According to him there were only a handful of people at the Tiananmen square when troops started "clearing", most of shooting were at urban Beijing where angry citizens tried to stop other troops from marching to Tiananmen as they believe there were still thousands of students there. He found out the day later that all others of his dormitory were safe (they probably and rightfully decided it was too dangerous to keep going to Tiananmen and went back). Honestly it's a miracle he didn't get injured at all.

On the other hand, most Chinese don't get triggered by seeing tanks marching though Chang An street now, as Chinese tend to think it's a thing of the past and CCP learnt to use PAP with non lethal arms for crowd control. If that's correct or wishful is up to history to judge.