The scene at Tung Shin Hospital on July 9
Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein complained today that the Tung Shin Hospital incident was being blown out of proportion, saying the police were not the only ones to blame for mishaps during the July 9 Bersih 2.0 rally.
The Home Minister pointed out that the incident at the hospital was merely one of “six or seven” mishaps and only involved the wrongdoing of one errant police officer.
“On Tung Shin, there is a spin that it is looking as though the SOP (standard operating procedure) of the police is at fault.
“This is just one incident ... the fact they are just looking at one particular incident, relating to internal disciplinary action based on SOP, to me, is like making a mountain of a molehill,” he lamented when met at the Parliament lobby here.
Hishammuddin was responding to the Health Ministry’s probe into the incident which concluded last night that riot police had broken their own SOPs by firing tear gas and water cannon when dispersing Bersih 2.0 rally goers at Tung Shin Hospital on July 9.
