I witnessed first-hand a nasty incident involving police and a white guy this past Wednesday, at approximately 6:10 PM, less than 100 metres from Foodland on Sukhumvit soi 16 where I had just eaten. I was walking back up towards the main Sukhumvit Road and noticed traffic on the soi had stopped for no apparent reason. I could hear someone screaming, but could not see them. It was then that I noticed a crowd had gathered and as I got closer I saw a chunky Caucasian male, perhaps 30ish, in a battle with two uniformed police officers and 3 motorbike taxi riders. The policemen were struggling to subdue the foreigner who at one point broke free and fell to the ground. They leapt on top of him, each grabbing a limb as he thrashed around like a wild animal, all the while screaming, "Help, help!" A 4th motorbike taxi rider joined in with the crowd yelling out advice to the coppers. The whole scene was disturbing, from the distress the foreigner was in, to the violent struggle to the comments being made by some watching to the fact that the foreigner was not yelling obscenities but screaming, "Help!