The Office of Ombudsman’s dismissal of murder and frustrated murder charges against four Quezon City police officers whose drug war operations led to the death of four individuals only necessitates the ICC probe, rights advocate group Centerlaw said.
Centerlaw also lamented that the Ombudsman resolution disregarded testimonies by physicians that Morillo, the survivor, was shot by a standing police officer while he was sitting, based on his bullet wounds.
“The Ombudsman dismissed the charges against the policemen despite two previous court decisions that supported the complainants’ narratives of the incident. In 2017, the Supreme Court granted a petition for the writ of amparo filed by the victims’ families, prohibiting policemen from approaching within a one kilometer radius from the workplace and residences of the victims’ families,” Centerlaw said.
It could be remembered that last March 17, Morillo was acquitted from complaints that he attacked the responding police officers. According to the cops’ version of the story, they visited the house of Marcelo Daa Jr., as part of Oplan Tokhang, the Philippine National Police anti-illegal drug drive.
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