YOURSAY | ‘Start with bashing a Pakistani, next a Bangladeshi, then a Nepali. What's next?’

Papagomo claims 'saviour' as video of him hitting man goes viral

Vijay47: Blogger Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris aka Papagomo, assuming that your sisters were indeed harassed and you had taken immediate action against the perpetrator even to the extent of giving him a couple of slaps, perhaps nobody would have faulted you.

But in this case, you conducted an identification parade where the workers actually came forward when you called and not run away if they had been guilty.

The man you assaulted was about half your size and you also had a hefty accomplice with you. Who gave you the authority to be judge, jury, and executioner? Why did you not hand them over to the police?

Strange you should say the police would not have acted; the inspector-general of police would have at least made some Twitter offerings. Then again, maybe you feared the attorney-general in his absolute divine discretion would have ruled that no offence had been committed.

Equally strange is that you took offence at the man using God's name. But isn't that the standard operating procedure especially within Umno circles. Remember convicted murderer Sirul Azhar Umar?

Anonymous 560221439180274: Who is Papagomo, even if he had been a police officer, to hit a Pakistani who is accused of harassing his sisters and her friends?

What is the proof the sisters and friends have had been harassed? He has no right to take the law into his own hands.

The police must charge him for not only threatening but assaulting a person. And what if the individual had not committed what he was accused to have done, and besides who is Papagomo to demand that the man to leave the place for good.

The actions of this man have all the signs of a full-fledged thug and racist. From a domestic nuisance, this man has now gone international.

The Pakistani embassy officials in Malaysia must force the Malaysian government to probe and take appropriate action against Papagomo.

Tan Kim Keong: Papagomo should have made a citizen's arrest and lodged a police report instead of unleashing slaps, punches and kicks on the alleged perpetrator.

What he did was plainly displaying the behaviour of a violent man. He should be charged for assault and battery.

Ferdtan: What if every person is allowed to take the law into his or her hand? Oh, I forgot, it can happen, that is if you belong to a certain 'supremist' party where crimes can be committed with impunity.

There is such thing as reporting an alleged to the police. Maybe Papagomo thought he is still a police officer.

What had happened is only his version of the story. There are two sides of the coin; that is where the police come in to determine the wrongdoer.

Doesn't Papagomo trust the ability of his former peers? How sad, coming from an ex-police colleague.

KayL: This exact mentality is evident in many Malaysians from cashier clerks, to government servants, to road users.

They are the result of a belief one’s own supremacy without having to prove that they are deserving of that supremacy.

Anon1: Start with a Pakistani, next a Bangladeshi, then a Nepali. What's next? Any race you deem inferior to yours?

If the police don't take any action against this coward, they are indirectly endorsing such actions by others - all in the pretext of defending their pride.

Armchair Newspaper: This is Malay supremacist, lawlessness and thuggery at the finest.

Anonymous_1393648884: Muhammad, you are operating under the law of the jungle. Is the Pakistani really guilty? Could it be a false accusation?

As an ex-cop you ought to know what you must do to right a wrong and it's certainly not being violent.

Anonymous 2336891439170985: This man must be taught a lesson not to take the law into his own hands. He has no legal right to attack the victim in the manner he did.

If no action is taken against him more scums like him would be encouraged to do the same thing.

He cannot be the prosecutor, the judge and the executioner at the same time even if the accused had committed the alleged crime. Let us see if authority would say anything.

Odin Tajué: Nothing surprising here, is there?

The - hmm! - dignified act of Papagomo was his illustrating of his Malay dignity to his fellow Muslim who is poor and thus not considered his brother.

The Arabs are his brotherly Muslims, as they can ‘donate’ billions to his beloved leader, who could probably give him some of the ‘donation’.

Spinnot: "Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris is seen telling the man that 'this is Malaysia'..." Indeed, this is Malaysia.

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