[ad_1]
SINGAPORE: Support has arrived for a restaurant in Lau Pa Sat after CCTV footage circulating online showed a man tearing off an LGBT Pride flag that was displayed on a counter at the health food store.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday (January 19), SMOL owner Charmaine Low said she was encouraged by “the love and support of the community” after the incident.
“Our Lau Pa Sat outlet sold out earlier today, and I am very happy to have met them in person,” she wrote.
Images of Monday’s incident were uploaded to SMOL’s Facebook page, prompting hundreds of people to speak out in support of the LGBT community. In the video, the man can be seen gesturing towards the Pride flag and a staff member, and he appears agitated.
According to Ms. Low, the man told staff members at SMOL’s Lau Pa Sat store to “go to hell.”
“Not everyone supports LGBT people… how can you put up this flag? You are the kind of people who are destroying Singapore! “The man is alleged to have said.
The man is caught on camera snatching the flag from the counter and throwing it at a staff member before walking away.
In response to questions from the CNA, Ms. Low said that while she did not make a police report, “multiple police reports” were made on behalf of SMOL. He added that he had also testified to the police in response to these reports.
Police have confirmed that a report was filed and that investigations are ongoing.
While the matter was now in the hands of the police, Low said the outlet will not stop displaying the Pride flag and urged other small businesses to “show their support for the LGBTQ community in their own way.”
In SMOL’s Facebook post on Tuesday, Ms Low added that her intention to upload the “homophobic abuse” video was not to “dox or track down the perpetrator, but to highlight the everyday reality experienced by the LGBTQ community when most of incidents don’t happen. ” even caught on camera ”.
