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Published May 12, 2021, 2:05 PM
Thousands of people were apprehended and fined by personnel of the Quezon City government and police on Wednesday for violating health safety measures, including those who were not wearing face shields and those who supposedly took off their mask to wipe sweat from their face.
As of noontime, the local government said, around 3,200 individuals were already brought to the Quezon Memorial Circle after authorities launched a “One Time Big Time Operation” against violators which started around 8 a.m.
Quezon City LGU
They were issued Ordinance Violation Receipt (OVR) worth P300.
A day before the operation, at least 1.2 million face masks and 300,000 face shields were already distributed to indigent residents, including vendors and drivers, of the city’s 142 barangays.
(photo from Save San Roque Alliance)
Save San Roque Alliance expressed alarm over the action committed by the police since, the group said, the mural is only “part of the clearing and designing of learning spaces” for a community-based school in the area.
“No specific violation was cited… Half of the four youth volunteers they tried to nab are minors,” the group said in a Twitter message.
In a statement, the group said that their paralegal, Nanoy Rafael, immediately went to the scene upon learning of the incident, which happened around 2 p.m.
Rafael said, the police then asked them to come with them to the police station for legal charges although they “did not have any warrant of arrest.”