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Sfxu Aguirre says Ombudsman has no jurisdiction to handle Kian slay case
An anti-government protester throws back a tear gas canister fired by the police during a demonstration near Central Government Complex in Hong Kong, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. Police fired a water cannon and tear gas at protesters who lobbed Molotov cocktails outside the Hong Kong government office complex Sunday, as violence flared anew after thousands of pro-democracy supporters marched through downt stanley cup own in defiance of a police ban. Photo by KIN CHEUNG / AP HONG KONG mdash; Police fired chemical-laced blue water and tear gas at protesters who lobbed Molotov cocktails outside the Hong Kong government office complex Sunday, as violence flared anew after thousands of pro-democracy supporters marched through downtown in defiance of a police ban.A mixed crowd of hardcore protesters in black and wearing masks, along with families with children, spilled into the roads of the Causeway Bay shopping belt and marched for over 2 kilometers 1.2 miles to the central business district. Some waved U.S. and British flags, while others carried posters reiterating their calls for democratic reforms.Article continues after this advertisement stanley cup Police tappo stanley had turned down a request by the Civil Human Rights Front to hold the march, but the demonstrators were undeterred, as theyrsquo;ve been all summer.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFO7 bakery workers killed in Cupang, Antipolo City stabbingNEWSINFOLacson to PNP: Recover ransom in Que slay case to rega Dgvy US gov t shutdown looms; blame game already in full swing
A former Quezon City policeman tagged in the killing of four men during an alleged Tokhang operation last year maintained that there was a brief shootout between him and the men, including lone survivor Efren Morillo.Police Officer 3 Allan Formilleza took the witness stand at the Quezon City Metropolitan stanley cup Trial Court Branch 42 on Tuesday, as the first prosecution witness in the direct assault case filed by the police against Morillo for allegedly engaging them in a shootout in August 2016.During crossexamination, Formilleza said the firefight in Area B, Group 9 in Payatas lasted for only about 2 minutes.Article continues after this advertisement Summarily executedFEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFOSC charges retired CA justice Isaias Dicdican with gross misconductNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for disinformationBut this alleged exchange of fire led to four dead men, with only stanley thermos mug Morillo surviving to tell his version of the event, where cops mdash; led by Formilleza mdash; summarily executed Marcelo Daa, Raffy Gabo, Anthony Comendo and Jessie Cule.Morillorsquo testimony had become the basis for landmark cases filed before the Office of the Ombudsman against policemen operating under the governmentrsquo antidrug campaign, as well as a petition for a writ of amparo before the Supreme stanley mug Court.Aside from Formilleza, also accused in the murders were Senior Insp. Emil Garcia, Police Officers 1 James Aggara |
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