Videos of Claudia López show police abuse and vandalism – Bogotá

A video of almost 10 minutes published this Thursday by the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, on her Twitter account, is part of the evidence that the Mayor’s Office sent to the control bodies about possible acts of police abuse last week.

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The mayor reported that this Thursday she handed them over to the City Council, as He had already done it to the President of the Republic, Iván Duque, and to the Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office and international organizations “about vandalism and indiscriminate use of firearms by some police officers on September 9 and 19,” he wrote.

The video shows, first, the well-known scene of the police attack on Javier Humberto Ordóñez, which caused his death. Later, it shows a relative of Jaider Fonseca who says that “he was a boy” and was not armed. According to Fonseca’s family, he was shot four times. “It wasn’t a stray bullet, they shot him down”said his partner on Sunday at the reconciliation ceremony scheduled by the Mayor’s Office.

Next, a video shows a large group of policemen in the CAI Verbenal gathering behind the structure and then leaving from there firing indiscriminately at the civilians at the end of the street.

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“They are shooting!”, A person is heard recording, while dozens of detonations occur and people run. Even, at some point, the smoke from tear gas gets in the way, obscuring the vision of the police, but they continue to shoot.

Another fragment of the video shows a policeman, in the same area, shooting from the front, despite the fact that there is no evidence that his life is at risk, or that they are facing him.

In another fragment, recorded in El Rincón, Suba, the moment is seen when a civilian falls wounded to the asphalt, according to the people who are present, by the police.

The videos show circumstances in which the police officers who fired their firearms did so without being in direct risk, because they do so even accompanied by dozens of other officers, both from the Police and Esmad, who only watch.

Also, collects testimonies of people who were injured and survived, who tell how they ended up in the middle of the confrontation, but they did not see with certainty who or who shot them.

The accounts show that some of the injured were not even on public roads, but were hit while trying to take shelter in their homes.

The video also includes scenes that show the violence with which protesters attacked the police in areas such as Villa Luz, Engativá, or Usaquén, where numerous groups lynched uniformed men who were alone.

However, most of the evidence points to showing excesses by the police, as well as irregularities such as the concealment of official identification to attack civilians, the confinement of people with motorcycles in unpopulated streets.

Most of the video includes events that occurred on the night of September 9, and at the end shows others that happened the next day.

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That day, groups of young people robbed buses in Suba, but the police also shot civilians in Fontibón, according to the images. In Tunjuelito, a mob attacked two policemen, until it reduced them and, already on the ground, continued kicking them. The same behavior was carried out by police officers in other areas against reduced civilians, as other fragments of the video show.

It also shows how, in San Cristóbal, people in civilian clothing fired protected by uniformed policemen.

“We need to know the whole truth and for justice to be done”says the video at the end, after apologizing, again, for the fatalities and injured people of those two violent days that took place a week ago.

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