A police officer wearing riot gear then hits a man carrying a backpack with a baton, apparently mistaking him for a protester.
A man in the crowd wearing a grey hoodie, allegedly another undercover police officer, shouts, “Don’t hit him!
The man in the hoodie and the officer in riot gear then begin trading blows before being separated by other police officers.
The fight occurred in the Taman Anggrek parking lot near the site of a rally against the Job Creation Law on Jl.
Kuswahyudi said some 20 protesters had been detained at the Jambi Police headquarters.
Imam Badawi of the Jambi Students’ and People’s Alliance lamented the police brutality and media reports that framed the students as vandals.
Universities in Jambi have not made a statement about police brutality against student protesters. »