{"id":42072,"date":"2015-02-12T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=42072"},"modified":"2015-02-12T14:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T06:15:02","slug":"twitter-users-salute-sympathize-with-pnps-espina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/12\/twitter-users-salute-sympathize-with-pnps-espina\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter users salute, sympathize with PNP&#8217;s Espina"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42074\" style=\"width: 804px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pnp-espina-emotional.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42074 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pnp-espina-emotional.jpg\" alt=\"A weeing former SAF Commander Getulio Napenas approaches an emotional PNP OIC Leonardo Espina after the latter's moving speech at the Senate hearing on the Mamasapano clash (screenshot from GMA News footage)\" width=\"804\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pnp-espina-emotional.jpg 804w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pnp-espina-emotional-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A weeping former SAF Commander Getulio Napenas approaches an emotional PNP OIC Leonardo Espina after the latter&#8217;s moving speech at the Senate hearing on the Mamasapano clash (screenshot from GMA News footage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 While testifying during a hearing on the Mamasapano probe, Philippine National Police (PNP) officer-in-charge Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina became emotional as he recalled the gruesome death of the 44 Special Action Force (SAF) police commandos.<\/p>\n<p>Espina asserted that he wanted to know the truth and all the details on the death of his men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want answers for my people so that when my time comes and I have to face them, at least I can say something\u2026 That\u2019s what I want. That\u2019s what I request. Fairness and justice for my men,\u201d he said teary-eyed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForty four of my men from SAF were killed in a brutal and merciless fashion. They were killed in a legit police operation to arrest a terrorist who continued to be a threat to peace-loving citizens,\u201d he added, admitting that he could not sleep after learning how his men were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Several Filipino netizens sympathized with and saluted Espina for his stand on the \u2018overkill\u2019 of the elite police. Gen. Espina soon after became trending on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pnp-espina-twitter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42075\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pnp-espina-twitter.png\" alt=\"pnp espina twitter\" width=\"737\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pnp-espina-twitter.png 737w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pnp-espina-twitter-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 44 SAF troopers were among the 392 police commandos that were deployed in Oplan Wolverine, the disastrous operation targeted to the arrest of two terrorists in Mamasapano town, Maguindanao province.<\/p>\n<p><em>With report from Cyra Moraleda<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 While testifying during a hearing on the Mamasapano probe, Philippine National Police (PNP) officer-in-charge Deputy Director General &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":42074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,483,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-politics","category-technology","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42072","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}