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Because back then we didn't have a president that encouraged cops to just kill: http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/07/02/1598740/duterte...

Or congratulated cops after they killed 58 people during drug raids in a single week: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/544128734....

Those drug raids lead to the CCTV footage of cops executing an unarmed 16-year old kid who was already in handcuffs, btw.

Or has repeatedly vowed to pardon and ask for the reinstatement of the cops that have been charged with the murder of a drug lord inside his jail cell in the middle of the night: http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/31/17/duterte-vows-anew-to-p....

Those cops are now free on bail

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"And if there is a resistance that would place your life in jeopardy, then by all means shoot and shoot him dead. That is my order"

To defend the people is one of the basic duty of all police here and abroad so what's wrong with that? That's the message of the first article that you linked.

Of course he will congratulate his men about putting their lives on the line for you and others. Plus of course his usual rhetoric (did you take that seriously?)

We all want those policemen found guilty of crimes to be in jail. But did you ever think of who will replace them? You want the military to uphold the law just like back in the martial law days in the 80's? We have a deteriorating police force for a very long time but thanks to Duterte there are a lot of new recruits today. I see them training every day on my way to work.

I assume those policemen would be replaced by other cops that HAVEN'T been found guilty of crimes yet, which isn't going to happen if Duterte keeps protecting dirty cops right?

No I don't want the military to be upholding the law, and I hope you do not too. Which is funny because Duterte has enforced martial law in the whole of Mindanao to quell a conflict in a single city which he himself has declared as already liberated back in October, and now there are rumblings of extending martial law to 2018. Doesn't that alarm you?

Well, there's lots of people who make excuses for police murdering people in the US too. Eventually the scale of the corruption and malfeasance becomes clear and then you'll say you were against these death squads from the beginning.

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