Officers last night arrested a person who shouted “I am a woman” at them after receiving reports that they attacked a couple in the street.
The incident took place in Shanghai Street in Jordan at about 7:30pm last night when the suspect – who Apple Daily reported as a foreign man wearing women’s clothing – went into the middle of the road to approach a couple, a 44-year-old man surnamed Chan and a 37-year-old woman surnamed Chung.
The suspect then slapped Chan, before hitting Chung when she stepped in to try and stop the suspect. A passerby who saw the altercation called the police.
A female eyewitness surnamed Liu told Apple Daily that she was having dinner when she saw the suspect hitting the couple.
Video footage recorded by Liu shows officers yelling “shut up” at the suspect, who yells back “no.”
Throughout the video, the suspect can be heard shouting “I’m not a man,” and “I’m not a boy, do you understand?”.
At one point the suspect said “I’m a woman”, to which an officer responds “so what?”.
Liu said: “The person didn’t seem to care what the officer was saying, then they went into the restaurant, and that was when officers arrested them.”
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of wounding, criminal damage, and for failing to produce ID.
A preliminary investigation revealed the couple did not know the suspect, and police are looking into the motive behind the attack.
