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You may have thought you came to the aid of a damsel in distress, but a man’s attempt to defend a woman who was being arrested has earned him fights online instead.
The 43-year-old woman was arrested at 53 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 on December 14 under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act, police confirmed.
But a five-minute clip of the arrest shared on Facebook got netizens talking for a different reason.
The video showed two police officers trying to hold down the struggling woman while a man yelled at them, “Hey, hi, she’s a lady, you know.”
When more officers arrived on the scene, the man approached the group and yelled, “Don’t use force. She is a lady.”
“If it was a female officer, then that’s fine. But you are men,” she added in Malay.
An unidentified woman pushed the man back and told officers: “You cannot touch the woman.”
Meanwhile, the woman who was being immobilized shouted in Chinese that the police were “beating people” and called for help.
When the officers took the woman away, the man chased her and asked one of them her name.
The man was shown without a face mask at various points in the video.
