{"id":76957,"date":"2026-08-16T20:29:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=76957"},"modified":"2026-08-16T20:29:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:29:59","slug":"police-identify-man-after-elderly-man-shoved-to-ground-over-patting-girls-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=76957","title":{"rendered":"Police identify man after elderly man shoved to ground over patting girl&#8217;s head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The family said the man, who is in his 70s and has difficulty walking, had been walking past a table and using tables for support when he briefly reached out and patted a young girl on the head.<\/p>\n<p>The child&#8217;s father then became upset and confronted the elderly man, the family alleged.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV footage showed the elderly man being shoved and falling to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The family said relatives who were present helped him up. It added that the elderly man initially did not want to pursue the matter further.<\/p>\n<p>The other man later sat down with him, apologised and offered him a drink, according to the posts.<\/p>\n<p>In a subsequent Facebook post, the family said the elderly man was suffering from back pain following the incident and appealed for information that could help identify the people involved.<\/p>\n<p>It also urged those with information to contact the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Another post, which was later removed, contained footage showing the two men seated across from each other at a table. According to the accompanying text, the girl&#8217;s father apologised and said he had been &#8220;overprotective&#8221; of his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>In a third post, Bei-Ing Wanton Noodle reiterated its appeal for information and said the matter remained unresolved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/police-identify-man-after-elderly-man-shoved-ground-over-patting-girls-head-6322146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family said the man, who is in his 70s and has difficulty walking, had been walking past a table and using tables for support&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--EJ-nVuo0--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/08\/16\/roxy_square_shove.jpg?itok=IDOtTCrm","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4725,1945,1807,17071,140,28337,1273,28336],"class_list":["post-76957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-elderly","tag-girls","tag-ground","tag-identify","tag-man","tag-patting","tag-police","tag-shoved","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}