They registered 119 complaints of police abuse in protests in the case of Javier Ordóñez

The Mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, delivered this Friday, in two meetings she held with the President of the Republic, Iván Duque, and the Attorney General of the Nation, Fernando Carrillo, all the evidence that the Mayor’s Office has collected of the indiscriminate use of firearms during the days of protest that have taken place this week in Bogotá.

“It is the most serious thing that has happened to Bogotá since the taking of the Palace of Justice,” said the Mayor when making a report of the two meetings through her social networks.

The Mayor explained that in the protest days on Wednesday and Thursday, called in rejection of the death of law student Javier Ordóñez at the hands of two police officers, the death of 10 people has been reported for alleged acts of police abuse and 72 more citizens, mostly young people, were wounded by firearms.

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In total, 119 complaints of police abuse were received by the Mayor’s Office in 48 hours. Throughout the year, 141 complaints had been received before the protests.

López explained that the evidence available to the mayor’s office includes videos that have circulated on social networks, but is also verified by the mayoral cameras.

“What does the citizenry demand? Let the truth be known: why was there such a display of force against the city, why do some members of the police use their firearms, why are public property vandalized?

The mayor said that she asked the president to order that those who used their weapons indiscriminately be identified and removed from the Police and said that the president replied that he had already ordered to check which members of the Police have fired their weapons in the last 48 hours.

The president, however, is not in favor of promoting structural reform to the police force, as requested by the mayor, although the attorney did promise to examine the probability of calling for an institutional reform to propose that reform to Congress.

The Attorney General also promised to take preferential control of the investigation of the cases of the 72 people injured by firearms, as requested by López.

The mayor said that the city needs an act of reconciliation and forgiveness with the police, which will be held next Sunday.

“It is a massacre of young people in our city. Just as the massacres in Nariño, Cauca, and Catatumbo hurt us, it hurts us that the young people of our city are massacred,” he said.