Market vendors face charges after attacking police

[Rimmer]

Market vendors face charges after attacking police

PATTAYA:-- Pattaya police say they will bring charges against members of a mob that attacked a group of plainclothes officers investigating counterfeit merchandise sales at the Grand Hall Market.

Deputy suppression chief Pol. Lt. Col. Kwanpichai Manochareonsap, Pol. Capt. Raphipong Sarathi and two other officers sustained injuries requiring stitches in the July 4 brawl with vendors at the South Pattaya market. They were treated and released from Banglamung Hospital.

Police arrived at the market to find the battered and bleeding officers surrounded by 30-40 people. After managing to extricate the officers from the mob, the group blocked their escape in a truck and again began attacking the police.

The fracas began after Kwanpichai led a group of seven plainclothes officers to arrest several vendors allegedly selling knockoff sunglasses and watches.

Kwanpichai claimed that, while doing so, he was approached by market owner Supaklit “Hia Jua” Akalertlap, 61, who demanded to know what police organization he worked with. After telling Supaklit that he was from the Pattaya Police Station, Kwanpichai said the market owner punched him in the face, setting off the melee.

After turning himself in to police July 5, Supaklit told a different story on what ensued the day before.

The market owner said he began questioning Kwanpichai after a vendor complained there were men posing as police and trying to take them into custody for selling sunglasses. He found a group of men dressed in jeans and t-shirts, but with no badge and refusing to show any identification. He assumed they were fake officers.

He said that when Kwanpichai did pull out his ID, he kept his fingers over part of it, masking who he worked for. Supaklit said he tried to grab the card from the officer’s hand, which set off the fight.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2015-07-17

[clockman]

T.I.T. the enigma.!

[Just1Voice]

I'm on the side of the vendors in this one.

People show up, start "confiscating" things, don't show ID, they deserve getting the crap kicked out of them.

[Pattaya28]

Usual "Keystone-Cop" stuff

He Said She Said

[Oil Baron]

Well, according to the TV reports over the last week, no charges are to be brought against the vendors.

In fact, Pattaya police are considering filing charges against the police that carried out the raid, as they are in fact Bkk police, and it was carried out without the proper authorization!

From the way it was portrayed in the TV, the vendors got to bash the greedy cops with no consequences. Good job too!

Edited July 17, 2015 by Oil Baron

[razer]

So .... was it a shakedown or a bust? We'll never know.

[lvr181]

Who gives a damn? No honour among thieves!

[spidermike007]

This is a beautiful story. No doubt the cops were there to collect. They thought they would get a big payday out of this, and the vendors turned out to be anything but patsies. Normally I do not support attacks against the law, but they can hardly be described as that here, can they? Most are goon and charlatans.

[cookee68]

I see they still like to attack in crowds, even against their own

[lvr181]

I see they still like to attack in crowds, even against their own

Yup, street brawling is in, kick boxing is for sissies

[Benmart]

I'm on the side of the vendors in this one.

People show up, start "confiscating" things, don't show ID, they deserve getting the crap kicked out of them.

A fine philosophy until the cards are turned on the philosopher.

[espinoza]

If any plain clothed want to rob me I will be mad. If the plain clothed guy shows legitimation that proves the guy is a policeman I will talk to him, but he have to show this before I get mad. Common sense?????

[spidermike007]

Well, according to the TV reports over the last week, no charges are to be brought against the vendors.

In fact, Pattaya police are considering filing charges against the police that carried out the raid, as they are in fact Bkk police, and it was carried out without the proper authorization!

From the way it was portrayed in the TV, the vendors got to bash the greedy cops with no consequences. Good job too!

Is it even possible to stretch our imaginations to the point where we could conceive of the Pattaya police filing charges against the Bangkok police? Your honor, they raided our franchise territory! And if they did, is it possible to imagine a judge sentencing these charlatans to prison time? It is all such a cute charade.

[petercool]

There is a valid point in the above post .... when police from one jurisdiction enter another jurisdiction they are supposed to report first to local stations and have orders from their own superiors to support their activities. While not a matter for the court, it is matter of police procedures and subsequent enquiries. There is no doubt that ID's should be shown when asked for them and it all sounds like they did not go through normal procedures to make the raids and thus why they hesitated to show those ID's.