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The mayor of Ozamiz in the province of Misamis Occidental, Philippines has been killed in a drug raid:
A mayor who had been accused by President Rodrigo Duterte of involvement in drug trafficking was killed along with his wife and 10 other people in coordinated police raids early Sunday, the authorities said.
Reynaldo Parojinog, mayor of the city of Ozamiz in the southern Philippines, died in a firefight at his home after his security personnel shot at drug enforcement officers, who had come to arrest him and three members of his family, according to the Philippine National Police.
His wife, Susan Parojinog, and five other people were also killed, and a second raid at another house owned by the family left five more people dead, the police said. Mr. Parojinog's daughter, Nova Princess Parojinog-Echavez, the deputy mayor of Ozamiz, was among "scores" of people arrested, according to Ernesto Abella, a spokesman for Mr. Duterte.
The police said they confiscated high-powered rifles, bundles of cash and an unspecified amount of methamphetamines at Mr. Parojinog's home. A police official, Chief Superintendent Timoteo Pacleb, said one officer had been wounded in the firefight but that his life was not in danger.
Also at the The Washington Post, SunStar, BBC, and CNN Philippines.
(Score: 4, Informative) by BK on Monday July 31 2017, @09:01PM (10 children)
From WaPo:
No words...
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 3, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday July 31 2017, @09:20PM (1 child)
When you make an omelet, you've got to break a few rotten apples. And when you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough. And I said, "Please don’t be too nice." Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put the hand over, like, don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head. I said, "You can take the hand away, OK?" In the Philippines the gloves are off. It's a beautiful thing. #MAGA 🇺🇸
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @11:43PM
Trump! Trump! Trump!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RamiK on Monday July 31 2017, @09:50PM (7 children)
Being fair, just across the maritime border you still have slavery in Thailand:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/30/thailand-failing-to-stamp-out-murder-slavery-fishing-industry-starvation-forced-labour-trafficking [theguardian.com]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/us/raid-sex-trafficking-thailand.html [nytimes.com]
So, all in all, a few drug related murders aren't that much of a big deal.
compiling...
(Score: 4, Informative) by Immerman on Monday July 31 2017, @11:48PM (6 children)
Hell, we still have slavery in the US... No longer legal, but then it sounds like it's not legal in Thailand either. When has that ever stopped the black market?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Whoever on Tuesday August 01 2017, @02:32AM (5 children)
Wrong:
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday August 01 2017, @01:32PM (4 children)
I can't think of any instance where individuals were legally sentenced to slavery in modern times - so how is that relevant?
The slavery that *is* currently imposed as no legal basis.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Whoever on Tuesday August 01 2017, @03:16PM (3 children)
There are prisons where the inmates are required to work. It's inherent in the sentence, but not explicit.
It's not an issue that gets much attention.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday August 01 2017, @09:37PM (2 children)
I'll admit I had never heard of such a thing, though I can imagine it happening. Would actually seem reasonable in many respects - why should society bestow a sentenced criminal with free room and board? Though there's some size large devils in those details....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @12:33AM (1 child)
You never heard of the chain gang?
Nothing personal, but I am incredulous.
Did they teach history in your school? Literature? Ever watch old movies? Listen to old rock and roll?
No wonder our politics suck so much if even people on a site like this are so ignorant. (Note, ignorant is not an insult. It just means you are lacking basic information about history that is critical to understanding politics, judicial system, law, etc.)
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday August 02 2017, @03:42PM
I recall it from the "bad old days", but my understanding was that modern work gangs were more of a "reward" that prisoners generally volunteered for - a change of surroundings and maybe some fresh air, or possibly an opportunity to curry favor among fellow prisoners and/or guards.