S'porean saw man brutally beaten down along Johor road, tried to make police report in M'sia, but couldn't

A Singaporean man, 27, witnessed a brutal assault occur in broad daylight in Johor, Malaysia, on Jun. 7, 2026, and managed to capture the incident on his vehicle's dashcam.

However, when he extracted the footage in Singapore and tried to make a police report to Malaysian authorities, he said he was unable to do so as he learned that foreigners apparently had to lodge a report in person and could not do so online.

He also said he was given inaccurate information by the Malaysian police, who had purportedly told him that he could make a police report in Singapore, and the information could be relayed to the Malaysian police.

Footage of the incident has since been shared with Mothership.

What he saw

The Singaporean man said the assault occurred on a Sunday at around 6:40pm along Jalan Tampoi.

He was approaching a traffic light junction when the altercation started, he recalled.

One man was on a bicycle, and the other was on foot.

They apparently exchanged words before they started to brawl a few seconds later.

"Initially I didn’t think too much of it, thinking they’d just break it off after a few strikes, especially since it was still light out and there were people in the nearby shops, cars driving around and even a motorcycle a few meters ahead of them stopped at the traffic light," he added.

But "within seconds, one guy was on the floor getting his head bashed against the concrete multiple times", the Singaporean said.

The entire assault was caught on the man's dashcam.

"He was unconscious after this point as seen in the video," the eyewitness continued.

The Singaporean man added:

"I didn’t know what to do at this point and kind of froze. The traffic light was still red. I considered for a short moment if I should get out and help but was honestly too scared as the assailant didn’t seem in his right mind and was still kicking and stomping away at the victims head and body."

"The traffic light then turned green and I decided to get out of the situation and drove off. As I was driving off, a lady was running up to them from the shops with a worried look on her face to stop the guy from doing any more hurt. This gave me a little more reassurance as I drove off."

Assailant stomped on unconscious' man's head & groin

As seen in the clip, the assailant allegedly held the other man's head and smashed it on the surface of the road.

The assailant then got up and threw numerous kicks to the downed man's head and stomped on his groin area.

Tried to make police report

The Singaporean man subsequently extracted footage of the incident and searched for an online portal to file a police report with the Malaysian police.

He then realised he could not do so as he was not Malaysian.

He proceeded to call a police station in Malaysia, which directed him to a police station in Tampoi, a satellite town about 8km from Johor Bahru.

He recalled: "They told me they don’t accept non-physical reporting from non-Malaysians and suggested I report it to the Singapore police, and tell them to liaise with the JB police."

He said this procedure "sounded strange", but he complied and filed a police report with the Singapore police.

A copy of the report was seen by Mothership.

The Singaporean man said the Singapore police then called him to inform him that "that’s not how this works", which was what he suspected in the first place.

In his initial tip-off, the Singaporean man wrote that he had tried but failed to report the incident to the Malaysian authorities, which was why his "best shot would be to report it here".