{"id":208443,"date":"2019-04-04T21:43:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T01:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=208443"},"modified":"2019-04-04T21:43:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T01:43:27","slug":"palace-backs-ombudsman-raps-vs-manila-cop-tagged-in-killing-epileptic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/04\/palace-backs-ombudsman-raps-vs-manila-cop-tagged-in-killing-epileptic\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace backs Ombudsman raps vs. Manila cop tagged in killing epileptic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_170551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170551\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_536219983.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170551\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_536219983.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_536219983.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_536219983-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_536219983-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_536219983-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a resolution dated February 28, Ombudsman Samuel Martires ordered the dismissal from service and the filing of murder charges against Police Staff Sgt. Gerry Genalope for grave misconduct. (Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday welcomed the Office of the Ombudsman&#8217;s filing of charges against a Manila police officer involved in the 2017 killing of a 23-year-old epileptic while conducting an anti-illegal drug operation in Tondo, Manila.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We welcome it as PRRD (President Rodrigo R. Duterte) says his administration will not tolerate abuse on the part of police officers as there will be hell to pay,&#8221; Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a message to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>In a resolution dated February 28, Ombudsman Samuel Martires ordered the dismissal from service and the filing of murder charges against Police Staff Sgt. Gerry Genalope for grave misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>The Ombudsman said Genalope&#8217;s admission that he inflicted fatal wounds on the victim, Djastin Lopez, in self-defense runs counter to witnesses&#8217; statements that they heard Lopez pleading for his life.<\/p>\n<p>The Field Investigation Bureau has been directed to conduct a fact-finding probe to determine if the incident was a legitimate police operation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the charges against Genalope&#8217;s co-accused, Police Capt. Jojo Salanguit, have been dropped due to insufficiency of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Malaca\u00f1ang has repeatedly said the Duterte administration is &#8220;intolerant&#8221; of the abuses being done by some policemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday welcomed the Office of the Ombudsman&#8217;s filing of charges against a Manila police officer involved in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":170551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ej-roque","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208443","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=208443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208444,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208443\/revisions\/208444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}