Can we just let the Mendozas migrate to China as solidarity offering to the Chinese people instead of money?

Waht do you call someone who savagely slits a captive's throat? Di ba cold blooded murderer ang tawag diyan? Baka akala ng kapatid mo na aso yung ginilitan niya ng leeg! Shame on you Gregorio. What do you want to do next? Put up a monument for your brother claiming he is a hero? You should bury your head in the sands!

Fwd: The hostage taker was a rogue cop

Bobby Kalaw, HS’71, narrated to me how his son, Christian, had an encounter with hostage taker, Mendoza, in 2008.

Christian drove that night to Torre Lorenzo on Vito Cruz to drop off a laptop at the lobby. He parked on a vacant slot along the road. When he came back to the car, there were cops beside his car. They accused him of illegal parking. When he asked them how can he be illegally parked when there were other cars parked in front and at the back of his car. “Pilosopo ka pala!” retorted one cop. “bukasan mo yung trunk”.

When Christian opened the trunk, the cop then threw marijuana and pills inside and accused Christian “drug user ka pala!” Christian then turned to the crowd that had gathered and shouted “kita ninyo nilagay!” The cop then turned to the crowd with his hand on his gun and asked “sino ang nakakita?” The crowd immediately turned away.

The cop then instructed Christian to sit at the driver’s seat. The cop then got the seatbelt and wrapped it around Christian’s neck and pulled. As Christian was choking, the cop pulled his head back and the other cop shoved shabu down his throat….“yan may shabu ka na sa sistema mo!”, the cop said. (Christian later told his dad that his stomach grumbled from the shabu)

The cops then boarded Christian’s car and ordered him to produce his ATM card. They then went to the nearest BPI branch where the cop was caught on video using the card to withdraw the money from Christian’s account (the Ombudsman used this piece of evidence to convict the cops).

They then drove to the precinct where Christian was brought to hostage-taker, Mendoza . Mendoza then instructed Christian to contact any body he wished who can give them the money for his release. Bobby Kalaw was in the province when his son called him up. Mendoza took the phone and told Bobby that his son is in jail for possession of illegal drugs and that he is a drug user. He then demanded P230,000 for his release. Bobby replied that he did not have that large amount of money.

By then, one of the friends that Christian contacted came with P20,000 in cash. The cops then released Christian.

Mayor Lim learned of this incident when he was in a speaking engagement in SFO. Some one in the crowd read to Mayor Lim, Bobby’s email warning his La Salle friends to beware of the police precinct in Malate and their modus operandi on students.

Mayor Lim, upon his return, sacked the whole precinct and transferred Mendoza to Mindanao .

The Ombudsman then filed the appropriate cases against all the cops in the precinct that resulted in their conviction. Bobby was hesitant to file a case because they have no witnesses, no medical report and no evidence. It was the Ombudsman that gathered the evidence that incriminated the cops.

Bobby learned from his niece that she knows of 5 other students that were victimized by the same cops using the same modus operandi.

Bobby and Christian have put this episode behind them and moved on. They do not wish to be a part in Mendoza ’s hostage-taking caper. Bobby even told GMA’s Mike Enriquez that since he has nothing good to say about Mendoza then he will just keep his mouth shut.

Cheers.

@psylom - tama ka na "Bago na ang gobyerno. Bago na rin ang Presidente. Wala pa rin pagbabago sa buhay ng maraming Pilipino dahil hindi kayang paunlarin ang buhay natin sa pangako lamang. Kailangan ng gawa."

pero hindi lang dapat ang mga kinauukulan ang gumawa... tayo higit sa lahat ang dapat gumawa ng pagbabago... nakalulungkot na karamihan pa rin sa ating mamamayan, mayaman man o mahirap, ay sadya pa ring ayaw sumunod kahit sa napaka-simpleng batas trapiko lamang....

talagang dapat kasuhan yan..di naman talaga sya nakatulog...unang una alam mong pupunta ka sa hostage situation magdadala ka ng baril? kapatid mo pa yung nanghohostatge...stupid ka ba? tapos sa halip na tulungan mo ang mga pulis na huminahon kapatid mo binuyo mo pa...anong klase kang kapatid?? alam mong mali ang ginagawa nya gagatong ka pa?...ikaw ang ugat kung bakit nagwala ang kapatid mo..bakit di ka na lang sumama ng mahinahon?? anong kinakatakot mo? papatayin ka ng pulis?? kung nag-iisip ka ba naman ng tama..paano nila gagawin yun eh nandun ang media?? natural pag ginawa nila yun pulis agad sisisihin..sila huli mong kasama eh...alam mo ng pwedeng manuod kapataid mo ng tv sa loob ng bus sa media ka pa tumakbo?? malamang lang makikita ng kapatid mo yun at malamang magagalit yun??...wala ka talagang isip...kitid ng utak mo brad...dapat sayo ikulong ng habang buhay dahil sa pagkakapatay dun sa mga hostages...may mali man ang media, crisis management, pulis etc...di mangyayari yun kung di mo ginawa yun...nakakhiya ka!!!!