Source: ST FORUM
Violent abuse at eatery but security guards won't intervene
Recently while having lunch in Marche in VivoCity, my family and I
witnessed an unpleasant incident in which a young man started
physically abusing a woman, presumably his partner.
He snatched her handbag and whenever she made an attempt to take it
back, he would grab her arm and twist it violently and hit her on
the face.
This blatant abuse continued for at least half an hour with the
girl crying and trying to fight back (to no avail), until finally
the situation became unbearable to watch, and my mother alerted an
employee in the restaurant.
The Marche employee then called security. However, when a few
security guards finally did appear, they did not intervene and
proceeded to walk away.
This prompted the employee to try to call them back and further
emphasise how violently the young man was behaving, yet the
security guards just laughed and appeared to shrug it off.
We were later told that they did not want to interfere, as they
believed it was none of their business.
Frankly, I am appalled at the way in which this event unfolded and
the apathetic attitude of the VivoCity security guards. The woman
in question was clearly distressed and upset and, judging by her
partner's abusive behaviour, was also in a fair amount of
pain.
When someone helpless is in trouble, even if he or she is too
frightened or embarrassed to ask for help, I believe that it is our
duty to attempt to help the person regardless of whether we are
acquainted with them.
I just hope more Singaporeans can adopt this attitude so such
situations, upsetting for all parties involved, can be avoided in
the future.
Katarzyna Anna Sluzek (Ms)
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actually i saw once b4 at bugis
It was around early morn 1+ liao
den got this indian guy he refused to let his gf go off
and keep pulling her arm roughly and shout very loud
and the grp of us jus LL walk pass them
but the guy jus stop his action when we walk pass
but we dun wan ani trouble
