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“Murderer, murderer”, they shouted at the president as she left the tribute organized by Cruz’s relatives, in the center of Bogotá. At the event, Dilan’s mother thanked him for his company.
This Monday, on Calle 19 with Carrera Cuarta, homage was paid to Dilan Cruz, a young man who died a year ago after being hit by a projectile from a uniformed member of the ESMAD. This in the framework of the demonstrations of the 21N. Throughout the day, crowds accompanied the family with artistic demonstrations and a clear message in favor of justice, and against violence and abuse of authority.
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The mayor of Bogotá, Claudia Lopez, was also present at the event. Previously, the president had received Cruz’s family in her office, and it was they who invited her to the event in which they paid her memory. She accepted the invitation, however she was booed by a group of people who demanded her presence at the scene.
“Murderer, murderer,” they shouted at López as she walked to her means of transportation. It must be said that, during the event, Dilan Cruz’s mother, ANDenny Alejandra Medina, thanked the mayor for her accompaniment in the tribute.
Apparently, the reasons why the president was booed is due to her management in the middle of the demonstrations that took place in the city last September as a result of the police abuse of which she was a victim Javier Ordonez, the lawyer who lost his life after receiving a series of shocks generated by a taser.
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It should be remembered that at the beginning of the year, weeks after the day of the mobilizations derived from 21N and a few days after her inauguration as mayor, López assured that the ESMAD would be the last resort in the protests in Bogotá, implying that in his The management would mitigate the cases of police abuse presented in the demonstrations.
For this, he communicated a protocol, in which the first step would be an invitation to the protesters to reject, as a social sanction, any act of violence that they want to present in the middle of the mobilization. There, it is assumed that 100 mothers who manage dads (mothers of ESMAD members and protesters) would participate.
If the foregoing were not enough, the protocol promised by López contemplated the accompaniment of control bodies such as the Personería and the Oversight, verification commissions and organizations of human rights defenders.
The third step contemplated the intervention of the Police, who would be equipped with a shield and baton, which could not use stun bombs and dispersal gases. If all this were to be unsuccessful, the members of ESMAD would intervene, who would not be able to use 12-gauge shotguns, the weapon with which Dilan Cruz’s wound occurred.
Despite these protocols, in September a day of violence was re-lived in the city, which claimed the lives of eight people, who would also have died due to police abuses.
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