[sgbuffett]

A 61-year-old man will be charged on Tuesday (May 17) over multiple incidents where he allegedly made racist remarks and insensitive comments about religion.

He will also be charged over the possession of obscene films, said the police in a statement on Monday night.

The Straits Times understands that the man is former Ngee Ann Polytechnic senior lecturer Tan Boon Lee, who was sacked for serious misconduct after a video was posted on June 6 last year showing him making racist remarks to an interracial couple in Orchard Road.

He was not named in the police statement.

The police said he allegedly passed racist remarks to a 26-year-old man in the vicinity of Angullia Park on June 5 last year.

He also allegedly made insensitive remarks about religion during a lecture at Ngee Ann Polytechnic on July 28, 2017, and is believed to have provided insensitive answers about religion in response to questions on an online forum between Aug 10, 2020, and Sept 13 the same year.

Altogether, he faces four charges.

Plse look at the dates.

1. In June 2021 the video of racist incident appeared.

2. Police seized his computer and found obscenities and also his remarks in an online forum.

3. In Jul 2021 sgtalk.org shutdown.

It is likely the forum was sgtalk.org and admin was taken in and investigated.