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The first disagreement that López pointed out, on Blu Radio, was the initiative to ban protesters from wearing ski masks, or masks that cover their faces and make it difficult to identify them.
For the mayor It is unconstitutional for the State to tell citizens what clothes to wear in protests (and in any scenario) for which he assured the station that this point is inappropriate and inconvenient.
Another of the proposals that the mayor of Bogotá rejected has to do with a policy that, in the Government’s protocol, the organizers of the demonstrations must acquire in order to cover damages that may occur.
“[La póliza] It is to consider dangerous citizens. If you want to talk, move in the street, we assume that you are a dangerous vandal, then you have to give us a policy to cover the damages that you are going to do, ”said López.
But in addition, the mayor of the capital assured on the radio that the Police wanted to take away powers from the local leaders, to give orders to the Public Force during mobilizations.
According to what he mentioned in the interview, another proposal was for the police commander to decide “discretionally” when the Esmad, a faculty that belongs to the mayors of the cities, intervened.
“If anyone had any doubt that the National Government stigmatizes social protest, it is only that they read that protocol proposal,” added the Bogota president.
López said on the radio that the protocol presented by the government was so unfeasible that the meeting they held, where they were supposed to reach an agreement to guarantee the demonstrations (by order of the Supreme Court of Justice), was used to plan how ask the high court for more time to issue the measures.
The order that the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá and the National Government must comply with came after the complaints of abuse of authority that were presented in the demonstrations of September 10 and 11, in rejection of the death of Javier Ordóñez.
In those protests, which ended in serious disturbances, 14 people died and more than 300 (police and civilians) were injured.
Not counting the Bogotá merchants who were looted by vandals armed with pistols.
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