Quezon City police file criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security personnel stemming from the ‘forced transfer’ of her chief of staff to a private hospital over the weekend.
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/sara-duterte-criminal-complaints-hospital-transfer-lopez/
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/sara-duterte-criminal-complaints-hospital-transfer-lopez/
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Quezon City Police filed criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her
00:06security personnel, stemming from the, quote, forced transfer of her chief of staff to a
00:11private hospital over the weekend.
00:13QCPD Chief Colonel Melecio Buslig says they filed cases of direct assault, disobedience
00:18to authority, and grave coercion.
00:20A video going around social media shows Duterte addressing a police officer beside an ambulance.
00:26Duterte's presidential security and protection group chief, Raymond La Chica, was then seen
00:30shoving and pushing the police officer.
00:33Zulaica Lopez, Duterte's chief of staff, suffered an anxiety attack after learning of the House
00:38order to move her from Batasan to the women's prison in Mandaluyong City.
00:42The House panel requested police assistance for the transfer, but Duterte and her security
00:46personnel interfered and placed Lopez in a private ambulance.
00:50They brought her to St. Luke's Medical Center, a private hospital, in defiance of the House
00:55order.