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Philippines' Duterte vows to protect police after inquiry shows 'rub out'
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS | Wed Dec 7, 2016 | 7:28am EST
Philippines' Duterte vows to protect police after inquiry shows 'rub out'
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday defended police officers who killed a detained mayor on a list of top drug suspects even after another law enforcement agency concluded the death was an extrajudicial killing.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Tuesday disputed a police account that the mayor from central Leyte Province, Rolando Espinosa, was killed in a shootout in a jail when police came to search for guns and drugs last month.
The bureau described Espinosa's killing as a "rub out".
"I will have to defend them," Duterte said during a ceremony at the main army base in the capital, Manila, referring to the police officers.
"I will listen to the story and I will take it as the true version ... because they are under me, I should believe them."
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Philippines' Duterte vows to protect police after inquiry shows 'rub out'
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday defended police officers who killed a detained mayor on a list of top drug suspects even after another law enforcement agency concluded the death was an extrajudicial killing.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Tuesday disputed a police account that the mayor from central Leyte Province, Rolando Espinosa, was killed in a shootout in a jail when police came to search for guns and drugs last month.
The bureau described Espinosa's killing as a "rub out".
"I will have to defend them," Duterte said during a ceremony at the main army base in the capital, Manila, referring to the police officers.
"I will listen to the story and I will take it as the true version ... because they are under me, I should believe them."
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-drugs-idUSKBN13W1C3?il=0
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