PETALING JAYA: The p-hailing worker who set fire to an auxiliary police car and uploaded a video of the incident on social media did so to go viral, police said today.
“The suspect did the act to gain high viewership on the TikTok application by uploading a video of the incident through his mobile phone, in addition to showing himself being involved,” Petaling Jaya police chief Fakhrudin Hamid said, according to Bernama.
Fakhrudin confirmed that the 25-year-old man was arrested at a flat in Flora Damansara.
“The suspect has no previous conviction but tested positive for morphine during a urine test,” he said in a statement.
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“The police are still investigating the suspect’s motive,” he added.
Earlier today, FMT reported that an auxiliary police car was set ablaze with a Molotov cocktail near the Mutiara Damansara MRT station at about 1am.
“Satisfied that I got to burn a police car #polistakdekeje (or #thepolicehavenothingtodo),” he said in his posting.
Vulgarities directed at federal ministers were also seen spray-painted on the glass walls of a bus stop nearby.
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