Good news for BMC controversy, bad news for Chang Jiun Haur, Chan Siew Meng and two others : they are being investigated for causing injuries/attempting to cause injuries to FRU personnel for which they could be charged for attempted murder and rioting.

You should monitor and keep radar on this case. It has all the elements that could lead to grave injustice being perpetrated.

First of all it is hard for us to understand how if Chang Jiun Haur was the driver of the car, the other three passengers could be implicated in causing injuries/attempting to cause injuries to police personnel. Unless one imputes to the 3 as having common intent as driver to do so.

Or the other way of looking at it is that the other 3 could corroborate Chang Jiun Haur’s story that they were mere onlookers caught in the fracas, a version which if believed, would place the FRU personnel in very bad light when they beat the day lights out of Chang Jiun Haur, and therefore there could be a motive for perpetrators of the beatings to justify the violence by implicating the other 3 in common intent to injure, in order to discredit their corroboration of Chang Jiun Haur’s testimony.

The AG office should tread carefully here and not formulate a charge against the 4 based just on the version given by the FRU personnel there….There must be independent corroboration from other onlookers who were not police or ‘thugs’ sent by those who have vested interest in erecting the road barrier….

This is not a normal case of police’s word against a thug’s, when the former has vested interest in making their version stick (that they were giving him what he deserved) so as to deflect public focus on their own actions of beating up Chang.

It has been rumored that the authorities’ version is that 2 officers were injured, one on the hand and one on the thigh, after being knocked by a car. It is pertinent to find out where were these two officers hospitalised or treated as out-patients and whether these injuries were consistent with those inflicted by a car or scuffle with residents demonstrating there that night.

To be it is preposterous to threaten a charge of attempted murder or causing grievous hurt just because of a cut or abrasion on the hand and one on the thigh that at the very best requires out patient treatment of some antiseptic and admionistration of plaster!
It is really making mountain out of a miole hill!

To lay public like us, granted, even we were not there to witness events, it seems incredible that the young man Chang with 3 other pasengers would have the audacity to try mow down 12 FRU personnel in full gear….

It is potentially grave injustice to see a young man beaten up to the extent that he now lies in the intensive care unit of a hospital only to be charged for attempted murder or causing hurt when he recovers just because of some need to cover up brutality caught on YouTube (if the young man’s version of being innocent onlooker were true) …..

This is especially where there are political undertones. Malaysiakini reported that according to Deputy Minister for Home Affairs, “in the confusion, residents were beaten up by unidentified thugs and they decided to use more force by using a car to knock police officers over.”

How could he say this before investigations started???

Why would residents ‘beaten up by unidentified thugs’ would want to use a car to knock police officers over instead of the unidentified thugs who beat them????

Since an impartial investigation by police into a matter that involves their own image at stake is difficult – this is a case of conflict of interest -, I think you have every reason and justification to support the call from other quarters for an independent public inquiry into the violent events that night.