Protect and Serve abuse

During the pandemic, the National Police have systematically abused their force. The images released Wednesday afternoon and night of riot police beating unarmed, reduced and immobilized young people at close range, are intolerable and a shame for the institution.

These actions are comparable to the daily abuses committed by the anti-riot agents of the defunct Defense Forces during the worst moments of the military dictatorship. In the pandemic, these abuses have been systematic, invariable and almost planned, in open and unpunished violation of the human rights of citizens, especially against young people, the motor of protests, tired of government abuse and neglect.

This National Police, under the command of Jorge Miranda, looks more like an army of internal occupation, something that does not seem to bother the ruling party, the PRD, which was the political arm of a caste of gorillas that ruled us for more than 30 years reports La Prensa.

Faced with this repeated violation of human rights, the head of the National Police reacts by almost justifying these excesses of power and force, and the Government, beginning with the President of the Republic, is complicitly silent. Just two months after the President signed the Declaration of Chapultepec, again another journalist suffers the aggression of the Police and nothing happens. At the same time, the institutionality of the Republic – with a blind Supreme Court and a National Assembly prey to patronage – continues to weaken in the face of aggressive police brutality in this pandemic. Who can the ordinary citizen turn to in the face of this level of official savagery? To the Public Ministry? The National Police itself? To the Presidency of the Republic? Very little can be expected from these institutions.

Frankly, the lack of action of the President of the Republic leads us to think that he protects someone who should be immediately removed from office, since this official does nothing more than stain the uniform he wears, embarrass the authorities committed to human rights and trample his jury duty to the citizens: protect and serve.

Video: EFE