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Seeing red in the Little Red Dot: Do social media videos suggest Singaporeans are getting angrier?
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This apparent surge in violence has raised questions as to whether Singaporeans are becoming angrier, or spending too much time filming incidents rather than trying to prevent them.
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Fabian Koh
SINGAPORE - An early morning mass brawl in Geylang at the start of this month, which led to 10 people arrested for rioting, along with a coffeeshop fight between two men - with one apparently wielding a saw - are among a slew of public altercations to have appeared on social media in recent weeks.
They follow videos of other such incidents, including a Feb 23 case of rioting involving five men at a coffee shop in Block 167 Woodlands Street 11; a brawl involving about five men at a playground near Block 418 Yishun Avenue 11 on Feb 26; a four-man scuffle on March 3 at a coffee shop in Taman Jurong involving the use of a knuckleduster; and a case of affray between two men at Liang Court shopping mall in Clarke Quay in the wee hours of March 10.
