Trigger warning: This report describes acts of violence. One video shows a foot rolling the body of Gilbert Ranes, and then a voice barks in Waray to finish him off.
The first video posted on Sunday night, December 11, shows a stocky man in a white shirt and khaki pants bent over a body on the pavement. Vehicles wheezed by.
His mask had slid down his neck. An earphone poked out of the mask garter when a foot rolled him over. He flopped like a rag doll, surrounded by black leather shoes. The Regional Police Command did not respond to Rappler’s calls. But at around 9:49 pm on Monday, December 12, a Philippine National Police source who asked to remain anonymous, as he was not cleared to talk, said the suspect was “under custody already.” Rappler is withholding the cop’s name until an official statement comes out.
“Raffy Tulfo in Action, sir, tulongan nyo po kame sana mabigyan ng hustisya yung pagkamatay ng pinsan ko,Gilbert was trying to finish his basic education under the Department of Education’s Alternative Learning System . In a phone interview on December 12, he introduced himself as a congressional staff of Southern Leyte 2nd District Representative Christopherson “Coco” Yap.
“Let us all rise, if not use our platforms to speak against injustice for as Martin Luther King puts it: ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.'”Her message was as polite as it was bizarre, or so Maasin folk thought on the long comment thread that engaged her.
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