In a television interview with the ABS-CBN news program “TV Patrol,” lawyer Niño Casimiro, Quezon City legal officer, said the officials involved in the incident face possible preventive suspension of 60 days and a case of grave misconduct. A contributed video shows members of the Mayor’s Task Force Disiplina hitting a vendor with a piece of wood for not complying with the rules of the enhanced community quarantine. The task force members were acting on a complaint from barangay officials that the vendor was not wearing a face mask. The task force member even carried and dragged the vendor towards a government vehicle. Based on the medico-legal report, the victim had “abrasions.”But the task force members said they exerted “reasonable force” on the victim for not cooperating with them, according to Casimiro.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 28, 2020 15:00 UTC