Human rights advocates said the killing of Sonya and Frank Anthony Gregorio by a policeman in Tarlac province was no isolated case and was part of what the advocates said was a pattern of police abuse that had been encouraged and even given incentives by an administration that had promised to protect law enforcers who pull the trigger in a distorted definition of self defense.
Phil Robertson, Asia-Pacific director of the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), said the shooting by MSgt. Jonel Nuezca of the Gregorio mother-and-son “underscored the impunity that prevailed in the Philippines.”
This impunity, Robertson said, takes “place in the context of an enabling environment for polic…
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