TO SERVE AND TO PROTECT …

By Belarmino Dabalos Saguing, Rome, Italy, 24.07.2012 2200 ICT

In the news:  Despite QC clash, PNP says SONA 'generally peaceful' as 10 protesters charged  http://www.interaksyon.com/article/66996/despite-qc-clash-pnp-says-sona-generally-peaceful-as-10-protesters-charged

I almost fell off the chair laughing as I read the news item about the police saying that SONA is generally peaceful. Of course, the proceedings are peaceful, everybody tranquilly doing what they are doing, no hostility toward nobody,  until… the police attacked them without any provocation with fearsome and uncalled for violence.

Frankly speaking, the police should be ashamed of themselves for attacking a peaceful manifestation of unarmed people manifesting their right to express their proptest against injustices of bad governance, which no crime. If there are criminals in that incident, they are none other than the police themselves.

The video has documented it right, the crowd marching by, with someone telling the others, be calm, no thrtowing of stones, just keep our lines for we are only transferring to the other lane. Right at that moment, the Police made their charge, hurting unarmed persons indiscriminately.

So much now with the motto ‘to serve and to protect’. To serve whom? And to protect whom?

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