Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte called “utak pulbura” by CHR chair

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is a hit with people who are fed up with criminals—but Commission on Human Rights (CHR) chairperson Etta Rosales clearly isn’t one of his fans.

In a recent interview on ANC’s Headstart, Rosales addressed Duterte, saying, “When you take shortcuts, that is already unlawful. You are actually sending the wrong signals to invite lawlessness, vigilantism, utak pulbura that result in torture cases.”

Rosales then said that instead of making death threats, Duterte should say that he will arrest the smugglers right away and “let the full weight of the law be inflicted upon them.”

Screengrab from an ABS-CBN News video




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