A group of youths in Indonesia inadvertently fought the law, and the law won.
Police have arrested eight out of nine young men who raided a café in Makassar, South Sulawesi on Nov. 6.
CCTV footage obtained from the café shows a packed establishment just after midnight. At one point, patrons’ heads turned towards the café entrance, after which several men took their firearms out and ran out of the door.
It turned out that those men were cops — nine of them. One of them happened to be Reonald Simanjuntak, who heads the Crime Investigation Unit at the Makassar Police.
“We were chilling out and having coffee,” Reonald told reporters yesterday, adding that they counted nine perpetrators attempting to raid the café.
“When they attacked, they carried bows and arrows, slingshots, and there was a machete too.”
Following a chase, during which warning shots were fired, the cops arrested three of the nine perpetrators that morning. Five more were arrested in the following days, while one is still at large.
“The perpetrators were mostly underage,” Reonald said.
The officer said the gang of youths did not set out to rob the café. Instead, they targeted the establishment after they had an altercation with the café’s parking attendant, who they thought had pelted objects at them.
Nobody was reportedly hurt in this incident.
