In a pretty foolish move, 40-year-old Chia Choon Kiat posted two provocative comments on Facebook, encouraging the killing of the five police officers who handled the Benjamin Lim case.
Chia has since been charged today for inciting violence towards police officers, making rabble-rousing comments on Facebook under the user name “Rambo Power”, Channel NewsAsia reports.
The two comments read:
- “When people buay lun already… Will need to take matters into our own hands”.
- “Please reveal the identity of the 5 plainclothes officers and we go handle them ourselves. Kill them”
The five police officers he refers to are the ones who came to North View Secondary School to pick Lim up for investigations into allegations of him molesting a girl. The cops brought the 14-year-old to Ang Mo Kio Police Headquarters for questioning, and eventually released him to return home with his mother. A few hours later, he was found dead at the foot of his HDB block in Yishun in an apparent suicide from the 14th floor.
Chia also faces another similar charge for encouraging violence against the authorities — or in his exact words, “Cigarette Butt Officers”.
“Don’t play or attack Cigarette Butt Officers when they are on duty … Track and trace them down where they stay … when they are off duty with no government’s protection and cannot claim medical fee from their boss.”
In court, Chia voluntarily agreed to undergo psychiatric evaluation, and will appear in court again on Apr 18. He’ll be remanded at the Institute of Mental Health after that.
If convicted for communicating an incitement to violence via the Internet, Chia could be jailed for up to five years and/or fined.
