Pattaya police officers have confirmed the names of everyone in the video of a foreigner hitting a Chinese guy on South Pattaya Road while a Thai woman dissuaded onlookers from getting involved.
On May 26, Pol. Col. Thanaphong Phothi, the superintendent of the Pattaya Police Station, said that the incident seen in the video was a street brawl. It happened on May 24 at 3 a.m. in the vicinity of the intersection in the Bang Lamung District, Chonburi Province, South Pattaya, Sai 3, and Nong Prue Subdistricts.The person shown in the video wasn’t an officer. He is only a tourist who dressed professionally by donning a coat with a foreign police symbol and pants.
The Chinese man stated that he had trouble driving when the patrol police got involved and almost hit the foreigner’s motorbike. Both sides decided not to press charges after the foreigner apologized to him.