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Bogotá appealed this Sunday for forgiveness and reconciliation in a day in which it remembered the 13 fatalities of the violent demonstrations against police brutality, whose relatives called for an end to violence.
Parents, brothers and children of the people who died or who were wounded with bullet shots, which, according to Mayor Claudia López, occurred despite the fact that she ordered the Police never use “firearms in citizen protests.”
In the ceremony, which was not attended by the Colombian president, Iván Duque, despite having been invited, and whose chair remained empty, the high commissioners for Peace, Miguel Ceballos, and for Human Rights, were representing the National Government. Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez.
The president of the Truth Commission, the Jesuit Francisco de Roux; Pastor Emiro Roa, from the Church of God Ministerial de Jesus Christ International, and Monsignor Jaime Mancera, from the Archdiocese of Bogotá.
The violent protests were triggered by police brutality that caused the death of Javier Ordóñez, a 46-year-old man who was restrained with excessive force and the prolonged use of a taser electric pistol by two officers during his arrest early Wednesday in Bogota
Without district government, citizens at the mercy of the murderer’s weapon … pic.twitter.com/XMqXKbtYcg
– Andrés Charry (@charry_manager) September 13, 2020
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