Senator Panfilo Lacson has scheduled the public order and dangerous drugs committee probe on the death of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos Thursday, August 24.
In a text message Monday, Lacson said he will send out the notices to those who will be summoned to the hearing once the resolution is officially referred to his committee during the plenary session on Tuesday.
“[It is scheduled] Thursday at 2pm,” Lacson, chair of the public order committee, said.
On Sunday night, 14 of the 17-member majority bloc signed a resolution condemning the death of Delos Santos as well as the “recent spate of abuses resulting in excessive and unnecessary deaths in the conduct of the campaign against illegal drugs.”
Authorities claimed that Delos Santos attempted to flee when they were approaching him. Police chased him but the victim allegedly drew a gun and fired at them, forcing them to fire back.
A CCTV footage however shows cops supposedly carried the victim, contrary to police claims that he resisted and took off.
The Senate resolution noted that "similar incidents in the past have happened in carrying out the campaign of the Duterte administration against illegal drugs.”
Lacson has said that last week's overnight drug raids conducted by the police in Bulacan and Manila are “worrisome, to say the least.”
“It's worrisome, to say the least, coming even from somebody, who, in his previous lifetime as a law enforcer was a natural suspect in violating human rights of crime suspects that we used to pursue,” Lacson, former PNP chief, said.
At least 34 individuals were killed in overnight police operations in Manila Wednesday to Thursday last week. This happened after the simultaneous drug raids in Bulacan, which killed 32 drug suspects. —ALG, GMA News
Source: msn
In a text message Monday, Lacson said he will send out the notices to those who will be summoned to the hearing once the resolution is officially referred to his committee during the plenary session on Tuesday.
“[It is scheduled] Thursday at 2pm,” Lacson, chair of the public order committee, said.
On Sunday night, 14 of the 17-member majority bloc signed a resolution condemning the death of Delos Santos as well as the “recent spate of abuses resulting in excessive and unnecessary deaths in the conduct of the campaign against illegal drugs.”
Authorities claimed that Delos Santos attempted to flee when they were approaching him. Police chased him but the victim allegedly drew a gun and fired at them, forcing them to fire back.
A CCTV footage however shows cops supposedly carried the victim, contrary to police claims that he resisted and took off.
The Senate resolution noted that "similar incidents in the past have happened in carrying out the campaign of the Duterte administration against illegal drugs.”
Lacson has said that last week's overnight drug raids conducted by the police in Bulacan and Manila are “worrisome, to say the least.”
“It's worrisome, to say the least, coming even from somebody, who, in his previous lifetime as a law enforcer was a natural suspect in violating human rights of crime suspects that we used to pursue,” Lacson, former PNP chief, said.
At least 34 individuals were killed in overnight police operations in Manila Wednesday to Thursday last week. This happened after the simultaneous drug raids in Bulacan, which killed 32 drug suspects. —ALG, GMA News
Source: msn
