{"id":1388881,"date":"2022-03-18T17:31:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T21:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388881"},"modified":"2022-03-18T18:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T22:29:55","slug":"singapores-social-distancing-patrol-accused-of-assaulting-pregnant-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/singapores-social-distancing-patrol-accused-of-assaulting-pregnant-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore&#039;s Social Distancing Patrol Accused of Assaulting Pregnant Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsingapores-social-distancing-patrol-accused-of-assaulting-pregnant-woman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388881&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A nine-month pregnant woman living in Singapore recently <a href=\"https:\/\/mothership.sg\/2022\/03\/claim-sda-take-photo-children\/\">alleged<\/a> she was \u201cpushed to the ground\u201d and \u201ckicked\u201d by Singaporean government employees assigned to monitor social distancing at a local park after she confronted the people for their suspicious behavior, Singapore\u2019s Mothership digital news platform reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged physical assault took place on March 8 around 6:00 pm local time while the woman, her husband, and their two children enjoyed an evening together at a local park. The woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Maisurah\/posts\/10159226389214735\">posted<\/a> an account of the incident to her Facebook page on March 16. The Mothership reviewed the woman\u2019s statement and relayed highlights of her alleged ordeal on March 17, writing:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Her husband spotted a group of two men and a woman \u201cloitering\u201d there [at a the park], and taking photos of their children.<\/p>\n<p>She said that when he approached them to ask why they were doing so, one of the men from the group said \u201cnothing concerns you\u201d and \u201cI will delete them later\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The confrontation soon escalated, as the same man who claimed he would \u201cdelete the photos\u201d soon \u201cshoved\u201d the woman\u2019s husband and ran away. Continuing, the Mothership relayed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The couple then gave chase \u2014 the woman on foot, while her husband pursued them on his bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>The woman shared that she \u2026 ended up getting pushed to the ground by one of the three persons.<\/p>\n<p>Another allegedly kicked her while she was trying to get back up, but her husband was able to hold him down while waiting for the police.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The two additional members of the group caught spying on the family successfully ran away from the couple, but not before one of them \u201cdropped a name tag on the grass.\u201d This name tag identified the person as an employee of the Singaporean government. The person\u2019s official title as printed on the label was \u201cSafe Distancing Ambassador.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20266373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/275939615_10159226389719735_4971746068539437213_n.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Facebook\/Mai Surah<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SingaporeHDB\/posts\/339128028259577\">issued<\/a> a statement March 17 confirming the three people involved in the incident were \u201cSafe Distancing Ambassadors\u201d for the city-state\u2019s housing development board. The statement claimed the staffers were \u201con patrol\u201d at the time of the March 8 altercation and were \u201ctaking some pictures for routine reporting purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nine-month pregnant woman, identified by her Facebook account as Mai Surah, said she filed a police report to document the alleged physical assault on her and her husband on March 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy [unborn] baby is thankfully alright although my face was swollen and sustained bruises,\u201d Surah wrote on her Facebook page on March 16.<\/p>\n<p>The woman said in the statement she and her husband are still awaiting updates from the local police as they proceed with their investigation into the incident. She added that she shared her account of the event via social media to help connect with people who may have witnessed the altercation, \u201cincluding those who were in a car that drove by and honked at one point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s government has employed so-called \u201cSafe Distancing Ambassadors\u201d over the past two years to help encourage people to maintain a certain distance from others while in public. The measure aims to reduce the transmission of the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAn [Safe Distancing] ambassador\u2019s task is to remind businesses and people of safe distancing measures, such as wearing a mask and leaving sufficient space when queuing,\u201d Singapore\u2019s CNA news platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/faq-what-difference-between-safe-distancing-ambassadors-and-enforcement-officers-2089411\">explained<\/a> in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>CNA\u2019s report distinguished between\u00a0Safe Distancing Ambassadors (SDAs) and an elevated version of the monitors known as \u201cSafe-Distancing Enforcement Officers (EOs).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sso.agc.gov.sg\/Act\/IDA1976#pr55A-\">Section 55<\/a> of Singapore\u2019s Infectious Diseases Act grants EOs the power to \u201center, inspect and search any premise,\u201d or \u201cstop, board, inspect and search any conveyance\u201d in which an outbreak or suspected outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus has occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can do this at any time without a warrant, and with force if necessary, for the purpose of investigating any outbreak or suspected outbreak, or for the purpose of preventing the spread or possible outbreak of any infectious disease,\u201d CNA noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a person is suspected of breaking COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] regulations, such as exceeding the permitted number of visitors per day, enforcement officers can search their premises without a warrant,\u201d the news site reported.<\/p>\n<p>Singaporean government authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/politics\/22-substantiated-reports-made-against-safe-distancing-ambassadors-and-enforcement\">received<\/a> \u201c75 reports related to the conduct of safe distancing ambassadors (SDAs) and 17 related to safe distancing enforcement officers (EOs)\u201d in the first eight months of 2021, the <em>Straits Times<\/em> reported in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf these cases, 22 were found to be substantiated, mostly for rude or unprofessional behaviour,\u201d Singaporean Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu said on September 14, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty of these cases involved SDAs and two involved EOs,\u201d the <em>Straits Times<\/em> observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nine-month pregnant woman living in Singapore recently alleged she was \u201cpushed to the ground\u201d and \u201ckicked\u201d by Singaporean government employees assigned to monitor social distancing at a local park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}