ALTHOUGH an awesome variety of Malaysians have abided by the nation’s masks mandate when outdoors, the scenario in different nations has been combined.
For occasion, America has lengthy seen an elevated resistance in the direction of sporting masks by the so-called “anti-mask” and anti-vaccine crowd, whereas lately, the egocentric mentality has additionally seeped up north, with Canadian anti-maskers protesting towards sporting masks by being a public nuisances.
As such, when this occurs in Malaysia, as uncommon as it might be, the incident rapidly turns into nationwide information.
On Friday (Feb 4), movies of a person inflicting an altercation in Ipoh over the obligatory masks mandate went viral.
After the person was denied service at a restaurant for refusing to put on a masks, he was ushered out.
In a second of peak entitlement and foolishness, the person returned armed with a stick, and commenced smashing invaluable tools in the restaurant.
Perhaps he by no means obtained the memo on how Malaysians have a lynch mob mentality, as a result of as he was returning to his automotive following his path of destruction, the proprietor of the restaurant chased after him and the duo started to scuffle.
Seeing the proprietor being overpowered, members of the general public sprang into motion to ship the Malaysian model of mob justice.
You can watch photos and a video of the incident here.
It’s not clear which of the group have been members of the general public or restaurant workers, however there was plenty of them, together with one particular person who got here operating whereas holding a meat cleaver.
After enduring the wrath of the group (which included being struck by his personal weapon), the person was left by the aspect of the street, presumably whereas the group waited for the police.
The subsequent day, Ipoh district police chief Yahaya Hassan defined that the person had been positioned in remand till Feb 8 for inflicting damage and mischief.
Yahaya additionally suggested the general public not to take the legislation into their very own arms.
