'Dapat masaya ako na masasabi niya ang totoong ginawa niya, pero sa bandang huli parang talo pa rin kami,' says Mary Ann Domingo whose son and husband were killed by police in 2016
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Duterte’s most-awaited testimony at the House of Representatives, where the former president was expected to be more intensely scrutinized, did not bring the joy that Domingo thought it would.
But not Dalia Cuartero, who lost her son Jesus in a 2019 police buy bust in Bulacan. She was crying when she went out of the Mass hall to proceed to the hearing room upstairs. “When Cuartero took her seat just behind De Lima and their lawyer Kristina Conti, Duterte wasn’t yet in the room. As the room anticipated Duterte’s arrival, Cuartero got nervous even more. But this is our chance, said Khristine Pascual, mother of Joshua Laxamana, who was killed by police in 2018.
Committee chairperson Ace Barbers called for many one-minute suspensions as it was often the only way to cut Duterte off, and to make sure the former president could not talk over interpellators, or go off the rail, or even curse. HEATED. Tempers rise and fingers are pointed as lawyers of resource persons stand up to try to calm things down during the quad committee hearing on extrajudicial killings, at the House of Representatives on November 13, 2024.
That they have a stubborn client meant the lawyers needed to walk back some of his statements. For example, Duterte said he’d wish the International Criminal Court would “hurry up” to investigate him, only for Medialdea to try to debate later on that the ICC has no jurisdiction. Duterte told reporters after that one must know when he’s joking. But asked if he was joking when he said he would encourage cops to goad suspects to fight, the 79-year-old former president said:. Why would it incriminate me, upon what grounds? It might be improper, but certainly it was not unlawful,” said Duterte.For Trillanes, “everything he does is performative, to show his audience he’s tough.
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