{"id":83812,"date":"2016-12-16T04:10:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T09:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=83812"},"modified":"2016-12-16T04:10:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T09:10:16","slug":"white-house-calls-duterte-killing-boasts-deeply-troubling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/12\/16\/white-house-calls-duterte-killing-boasts-deeply-troubling\/","title":{"rendered":"White House calls Duterte killing boasts &#8216;deeply troubling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_83813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83813\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/U.S.-Press-Secretary-Josh-Earnest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83813\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/U.S.-Press-Secretary-Josh-Earnest.jpg\" alt=\"White House spokesman Josh Earnest (pictured) says those comments are at odds with the Philippine government's commitment to the rule of law. (Photo: White House)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/U.S.-Press-Secretary-Josh-Earnest.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/U.S.-Press-Secretary-Josh-Earnest-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/U.S.-Press-Secretary-Josh-Earnest-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/U.S.-Press-Secretary-Josh-Earnest-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White House spokesman Josh Earnest (pictured) says those comments are at odds with the Philippine government&#8217;s commitment to the rule of law. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014The White House says recent boasts by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that he used to drive around looking for criminals to kill are \u201cdeeply troubling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duterte said in a speech on Monday that as a former mayor he&#8217;d patrol on a motorcycle hunting for criminals to kill to set an example for police to follow. Duterte said he was \u201creally looking for an encounter to be able to kill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesman Josh Earnest says those comments are at odds with the Philippine government&#8217;s commitment to the rule of law. He says the U.S. remains concerned about extrajudicial killings by Duterte&#8217;s administration. Earnest says the U.S. supports a thorough, credible and transparent investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte&#8217;s harsh crackdown on illegal drugs has led to thousands of deaths in police gunbattles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014The White House says recent boasts by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that he used to drive around looking for criminals &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":83813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83812","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=83812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}