It’s better to hear that an officer fought until the end rather than running away like a coward,” de la Rosa said. Because in this case, a policeman was the one who was killed,” de la Rosa added. De la Rosa linked the previous withdrawal of PNP from the drug war to Gueta’s death. “The criminals in hiding, the drug pushers in hiding, they showed up after the PNP stopped [with the drug war]. Now they are bragging that the police can’t touch them, because the lawmen are hands-off in the drug war,” de la Rosa said.

Source: Manila Times December 20, 2017 05:37 UTC