https://sg.news.yahoo.com/woman-fights-12-police-officers-190354880.html
Wed, 7 January 2026 at 3:03 am SGT
2 min read
On Saturday, Jan. 3, a 32-year-old woman attempted to pay for food at a noodle restaurant in Hong Kong but her phone was dead, Newsflare reported.
Despite restaurant employees offering to help the woman charge her phone in the restaurant and “there was nothing overly unusual about her behaviour,” the restaurant owner said, the situation quickly escalated as the customer allegedly took a meat cleaver and pair of scissors from the restaurant. Other diners fled the restaurant and the owner called the police.
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Meat cleaver-yielding woman fights police officers in Hong Kong restaurant
A dozen members of the Hong Kong Police Force were dispatched, each wearing helmets and holding shields and batons, per South China Morning Post.
Released CCTV footage shows the woman standing in the empty restaurant, which has food, phones and chopsticks strewn across the floor. Half of the group of officers entered the restaurant from the main entrance and the woman immediately charged at them, swinging the cleaver at their shields. The other six officers entered the restaurant from a side entrance and came up behind the woman seemingly in an attempt to disarm her. South China Morning Post reports that officers used pepper spray.
Finally, the officers corral the woman and another clip shows her being taken out of the restaurant in a stretcher. She sustained a minor hand injury and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. The incident lasted 15 minutes, per reports.
Outlets report that she was arrested on suspicion of “possessing an offensive weapon, criminal damage, and assaulting police officers.”
PEOPLE reached out to the Hong Kong police but did not immediately hear back.
Woman Fights 12 Police Officers with Meat Cleaver After Phone Reportedly Dies While Paying for Restaurant Bill
CCTV footage caught the altercation that took place on Saturday, Jan. 3
Sabrina WeissWed, 7 January 2026 at 3:03 am SGT
2 min read
NEED TO KNOW
- A woman in Hong Kong was arrested after attacking a dozen police officers with a meat cleaver
- The altercation allegedly started when her phone died while trying to pay a restaurant bill
- CCTV footage caught the fight, which took place on Saturday, Jan. 3
On Saturday, Jan. 3, a 32-year-old woman attempted to pay for food at a noodle restaurant in Hong Kong but her phone was dead, Newsflare reported.
Despite restaurant employees offering to help the woman charge her phone in the restaurant and “there was nothing overly unusual about her behaviour,” the restaurant owner said, the situation quickly escalated as the customer allegedly took a meat cleaver and pair of scissors from the restaurant. Other diners fled the restaurant and the owner called the police.
Newsflare
Meat cleaver-yielding woman fights police officers in Hong Kong restaurant
A dozen members of the Hong Kong Police Force were dispatched, each wearing helmets and holding shields and batons, per South China Morning Post.
Released CCTV footage shows the woman standing in the empty restaurant, which has food, phones and chopsticks strewn across the floor. Half of the group of officers entered the restaurant from the main entrance and the woman immediately charged at them, swinging the cleaver at their shields. The other six officers entered the restaurant from a side entrance and came up behind the woman seemingly in an attempt to disarm her. South China Morning Post reports that officers used pepper spray.
Finally, the officers corral the woman and another clip shows her being taken out of the restaurant in a stretcher. She sustained a minor hand injury and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. The incident lasted 15 minutes, per reports.
Outlets report that she was arrested on suspicion of “possessing an offensive weapon, criminal damage, and assaulting police officers.”
PEOPLE reached out to the Hong Kong police but did not immediately hear back.
