"Is This Really the Korean Police?" Woman Spits on Officer at Protest, Faces Prosecution

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A woman who spat on and verbally abused a police officer at a protest blocking a vote-counting station in Jamsil has been referred to the prosecution while in custody. This marks the first case referred to the prosecution related to this protest. Arrest warrants have also been requested for two men in their 20s accused of assaulting police officers.

Reporter Im Jihyeon has the story.

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A woman is seen pointing her finger at a police officer and rushing toward them.

["Why are you doing this? Why? Report me! Go ahead and report me!"]

She then spits at the officer.

["Let's go to the police station. Let's go. Ptui. Ptui. Ptui."]

The woman in her 40s, who spat on and hurled insults at a police officer during a protest blocking a vote-counting station in Jamsil on the 23rd, has been referred to the prosecution while under arrest.

She is also accused of filming officers at the scene while demanding to "verify if they are real Korean police" and directing verbal abuse toward the officers' families.

This is the first case related to the vote-counting station blockade protest to be sent to the prosecution.

Police have also requested arrest warrants for two men in their 20s who allegedly assaulted officers on the 5th, when ballot boxes were being transported to the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium.

They are accused of grabbing and dragging police officers, claiming that National Election Commission staff were disguising themselves as police to flee the scene. Police have also booked and investigated a woman in her 20s for allegedly filming this process and sharing it on social media to spread false information.

Furthermore, police are considering applying charges under the Act on the Control of Firearms, Swords, Explosives, etc., against a man in his 20s who appeared at the protest site carrying a practice grenade.

Investigations revealed that the man found the practice grenade in a trash area during his military service and kept it after being discharged in April. He reportedly joined the protest as a volunteer before losing the item.

Following the questioning of a man in his 30s on the 29th for obstructing business by blocking sports organization staff from entering the handball gymnasium on the 16th, police plan to summon and investigate a woman in her 30s, dubbed "Ol-darc" for single-handedly blocking the entrance by holding onto the door handle, in the near future.

(Video Editing: Chae Cheol-ho)
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