An off-duty police officer’s brutal killing of a mother and son in broad daylight has sparked massive outrage in the Philippines.
Caught on video: At the beginning of a clip that went viral on social media, 52-year-old Sonya Gregorio is seen with her arms tightly wrapped around her 25-year-old son Frank Anthony Gregorio, as they were being confronted by Sergeant Jonel Nuezca in their own home at Barangay Cabayaoasan, Paniqui, Tarlac.
Nuezca reportedly went to Gregorio’s house at around 5 p.m. on Sunday to confront him over the noise he made from a home-made air cannon, reports Rappler.
(Photo courtesy of BAYAN Secretary General Renato Reyes)
Members of the said groups lit candles at the Boy Scout Circle in Quezon City on Monday night as they mourned for Sonya Gregorio, 52, and her son Frank Anthony Gregorio, 25 who were killed by Police Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca after a heated argument.
The rights groups also held up banners and placards calling for an end to extrajudicial killings.
Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan, a human rights group, dismissed the authorities’ claims that the killing was an “isolated incident.”
“That we have come to this the cold-blooded and merciless murder of mother Sonya Gregorio and son Frank Anthony Gregorio in full view of many, recorded on video, in broad daylight by police officer Jonel Nuezca is a dangerous and chilling effect of impunity that reigns in the Philippines. This is no isolated incident, especially when governance and culture is being driven by President Rodrigo Duterte’s rabid kill-k
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Video of police killing sparks mass outrage in the Philippines
On Sunday evening, an off-duty police officer in the rural Philippines publicly executed an unarmed woman and her son, shooting each in the head at point blank range and then firing into their corpses on the ground. The brutal murder was clearly recorded on a bystander’s phone and uploaded to the internet. Within less than an hour it had gone viral, and by the next morning an explosion of outrage against police killings was shaking the country.
Images from the incident [Screenshot from Twitter video]
It is Christmas week and provincial villages throughout the Philippines glow with the colorful lights of parol lanterns and their populations swell with returning workers from Manila, coming home for the holidays. The shooting took place in Paniqui, Tarlac, a rice farming town on the northern edge of Central Luzon, about four hours north of Manila.
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