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A 61-year-old man allegedly assaulted three people at a Bedok coffee shop on Friday (Sept 4), injuring two women and leaving one bleeding, before pushing two police officers who responded to the incident.<\/p>\n
In response to AsiaOne’s queries, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said it received a call at 7.45pm for assistance at Block 204 Bedok North Street 1.<\/p>\n
Preliminary investigations revealed that the man had been involved in a minor altercation with a 32-year-old man and two women, aged 29 and 25. Two bystanders stepped in and tried to stop the man.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found several men engaged in a scuffle and intervened to break it up.<\/p>\n
The 61-year-old man then pushed two officers and knocked the spectacles off one of them. He also uttered vulgarities at another officer, said the police.<\/p>\n
The Singapore Civil Defence Force AsiaOne that two people were taken to Changi General Hospital, while two others sustained minor injuries but declined to be taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
A diner, surnamed Liu (transliterated), told Shin Min that “the man even pushed the officers”.<\/p>\n
According to Liu, the man was believed to have consumed two or three bottles of beer before getting into an argument with a female employee at the coffee shop.<\/p>\n
The pair allegedly grappled for a while before the stall owner arrived about half an hour later and asked the man what had happened.<\/p>\n
After the man said a few words, the female employee interjected, which allegedly caused him to become agitated and hit the stall owner.<\/p>\n
Liu said her friend saw the stall owner’s spectacles being knocked off during the assault.<\/p>\n
Two employees who tried to intervene and break up the fight were also allegedly hit, she said.<\/p>\n
Another witness, surnamed Chen, told Shin Min that the man had allegedly assaulted the female employee before getting into a physical altercation with two other employees.<\/p>\n
During the incident, the man also collided with another table of diners, knocking over several bowls and plates.<\/p>\n
“One female employee had a cut on her lip and was bleeding, while another staff member said she could not lift her arm,” said Chen.<\/p>\n
The coffee shop was left in a mess, with spoons and plates scattered underneath a table alongside food scraps.<\/p>\n
A laksa stall owner who helped to restrain the man told reporters that he noticed the fight after hearing a female employee screaming.<\/p>\n
According to the stall owner, police officers asked the man to sit down after arriving at the scene, but he refused to comply and became more aggressive.<\/p>\n
The man had allegedly resisted arrest and assaulted the officers.<\/p>\n
The stall owner said he and several others then stepped in to help restrain the man.<\/p>\n
“I grabbed him from behind and pinned him to the ground, but he kept struggling.”<\/p>\n
When Shin Min visited the scene, the man was undergoing a breathalyser test before he was handcuffed and taken into a police vehicle.<\/p>\n
Stallholders at the coffee shop said that the man was a regular customer and had never caused trouble in the past.<\/p>\n
An employee at an Indian food stall, Ali (transliterated), said the man frequently visited the coffee shop to eat and was generally good-tempered, reported Shin Min.<\/p>\n
Another stallholder, who declined to be named, said they often saw the man at the coffee shop.<\/p>\n
“He’s a nice person, but we don’t know if he had too much to drink or was under a lot of stress. His behaviour suddenly became unusual.”<\/p>\n
The man was arrested for using criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of his duty and voluntarily causing hurt to deter a public servant from his duty, said the police.<\/p>\n
He will also be investigated for voluntarily causing hurt and intentional harassment.<\/p>\n
Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n
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