Protesters, DBKL officers accuse each other of assault


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 19 Feb 2017

A man whom protesters say is a plainclothes DBKL officer, trying to take down a banner put up by the cyclists. - Photo courtesy of ALAP

PETALING JAYA: It is a case of conflicting accounts involving a group of protesters and Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) enforcement officers, with both sides claiming they were assaulted by the other.

A group of cyclists claimed that enforcement officers intimidated, heckled and even slapped one of them during a demonstration on Sunday to protest against the impounding of bicycles in the city.

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