{"id":138785,"date":"2017-12-13T02:10:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T07:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138785"},"modified":"2017-12-13T02:10:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T07:10:17","slug":"duterte-reminds-cops-to-not-go-overboard-on-the-drug-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/13\/duterte-reminds-cops-to-not-go-overboard-on-the-drug-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte reminds cops to not go overboard on the drug war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday clarified that he is not tolerating abusive cops and to have mercy on their transgressions is far from happening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duterte stressed that the goal of the \u201cdrug war\u201d is to clean the country\u2019s long-time drug problem but consenting murders and other criminal injustices as means to achieve it are not part of the picture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the president, the recent death of the 17-year-old Kian delos Santos was not done in performance of police duty.\u00a0 He clarified that he is not justifying the incident in Caloocan City and ordered cops to \u201dnot commit a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furthermore, Duterte reminded the police and the military to abide in the rules of the operation which excludes killing a person \u201ckneeling down and begging for his life\u201d because it is murder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNobody wants to kill innocent persons,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 08 \/\u00a024 \/ 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday clarified that he is not tolerating abusive cops and to have mercy on their transgressions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}