- A video of a police brutality caught on cam has gone viral on social media
- Suspects identified as Police Officers Jose Tandog and Chito Enriquez
- The video shows Police Officer Tandog repeatedly beat one of the victims with arnis stick
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A police brutality video taken in a Barangay Hall has gone viral on social media.
Fortunately, a man named “Marvin” who’s present during the incident recorded the police brutality committed by two police officers.
The video of the police brutality which recorded and uploaded by the brother of one of the victims showed two policemen beat and threatened two men identified as Marvin Calda and Macmac Villanueva who got arrested because of not yet known violations.
Iris Calda, narrated the incident in a post on social media:
Hindi na po dapat ako magpopost Pero SOBRA na po talaga ang ginagawa ninyong pananakit, pangaabuso, pananakot. Kagabi hinuli ni JOSE TANDOG at CHITO ENRIQUEZ, parehong PO1 ang aking kapatid na si Marvin Calda at kumpare nyang si Mac2 Villanueva kahit walang nagawang kamalian. Dinala sila sa Brgy dahil wala silang dalang pangticket at doon naganap ang malahayop na pananakit at pagbunot at pagtutok ng baril. Ma buti nlng at mabilis na naisip ni Marvin na mavideohan ang mga pangyayari. Nasaan si Ron2 at kanyang mga tanod? Bakit wala kayong naging aksyon. Pasensya npo sir Ubina, yung pakiusap mo na huwag ipost ang pangyayari ay Hindi ko po mapagbibigyan.
Martial law na ba sa atin? Diba mission ng mga police to “serve and protect”? May karapatan kami ipaglalaban namin. Lalaban po kami, Hindi ko palalampasin ang pangaabuso ninyo . Sa mga inabuso at sinaktan ng mga police sa ating barangay, hinihikayat ko kayong magsalita at magreklamo. Sa video makikita ninyo kung paano sinaktan at halos patayin na ang walang kalabanlaban nating kabarangay. Maraming salamat po.
The victims were brought to the Barangay Hall in Brgy. San Jose where the beatings happened because they could not pay for a ticket for their violation.
(via Iris Calda)
Victims were threatened by two policemen identified according to the source as Police Officers 1 Jose Tandog and Chito Enriquez while being pointed by a loaded gun and an arnis stick.
(via Iris Calda)
It can be heard in the beginning of the video posted on social media that a young man heard pleading to the police officers ““hindi ako nagmamalaki sa inyo sir!”
That’s when the police officer identified as PO1 Jose Tandog started to point his arnis stick to the victim.
(via Iris Calda)
Then the two men had asked if they had any “rules and regulations” (referring to their maltreatment) in the barangay. Both officers mockingly responded with “ang dami niyong alam!” and “marami kayong alam noh?
Afterwards, the police officer holding the arnis attempted to put handcuffs to the victims. But the victims asked not to be handcuffed because there was no case being filed against them.
That’s when the police officer Tandog struck the victim on his stomach and then right on his face. PO1 Tandog seemed started to lose control in his anger and repeatedly beaten and cursed the victim.
“Sige laban! P*tang ina! Puputukan ko kayo!” The police officer said.
(via Iris Calda)
The victim tried to defend himself, but the police officer continued striking him that made him thrown outside the Barangay Hall.
Relatives of the victims, criticized the Barangay officers and tanods present in the Barangay Hall during that time for doing nothing to defend the victims against the police officers.
According to the source, someone also asked them not to upload the video, but they decided to expose the brutality committed by the police officers to attain the justice that they wanted.
Melfe Cloa Calda, one of the relatives of the victim also wrote an open letter to PO1 Tandog in his social media account and she hopes that the video of their brutality reached their families.
She also exposed the social media account of the police officer and posted some of his pic together with his wife.
Photo of PO1 Tandog via https://www.facebook.com/mcclda
“To your wife, I hope he never does this to you. You married a monster. A loser. A Cancer of the society,” Calda said in his post.
(via https://www.facebook.com/mcclda)
He also urged the Philippine National Police to investigate the police brutality and how another police officer ruined the reputation of the organization.
Netizens criticised the police officer committed the brutality and they believed that PO1 Tandog and Enriquez must be held accountable for what they did to the victims.
Philippine National Police and Commission on Human Rights is not yet releasing an statement on the viral video.
The two police officers are also not yet giving an explanation why they did the brutality.
You can watch the video here:
