Police seek woman who slapped student for not standing during national anthem

Update 1:40pm: The woman apologized publicly for attacking the student. She was charged this afternoon with assault and is headed to a court appearance.

A 15-year-old student in Ayutthaya province this morning filed a complaint against a woman who assaulted her for not standing during the 6pm national anthem.

With tensions spreading over a youth-led uprising against the military-backed government, the unidentified student went to the police after the woman, thought to be a food vendor, slapped her Tuesday for not standing when the anthem played at 6pm.

“Stand up. Come here!” the woman, wearing red, says in a video retweeted nearly 150,000 times since yesterday. “What a waste. You’re a student, wearing the student uniform!”

Today at noon, police said they had identified the woman and called her in for questioning, according to Capt. Wuttipat Chuaikid of…