Under oath, former president Rodrigo Duterte tells the Senate that he had ordered police under him to ‘encourage’ suspects to fight back so they have an excuse to kill.
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00:00Under oath, former President Rodrigo Duterte tells the Senate that he had ordered police
00:04under him to encourage suspects to fight back so they have an excuse to kill.
00:09What I said is this, encourage the criminals to fight, encourage them to draw their guns.
00:18If they fight, kill them so that my problem in my city can end.
00:24Duterte says this while being asked about the existence of the alleged Davao death squad,
00:29which he initially denied.
00:30He then says all police generals at the hearing all led death squads because they've killed
00:34in the line of duty.
00:36Former Police Chief Vicente Danao, who allegedly led his own squad of assassins, says Duterte
00:40was only joking, clarifying Duterte never instructed him to kill anyone.
00:45Opposition Senator Issa Ontiveros asked Duterte one more time if he had really meant what
00:49he said.
00:50I said, encourage the PNP to encourage the suspects to fight, to kill, to say, fight.