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After CTI units of the Prosecutor’s Office arrived at the CAI of the Villa Luz Police in Bogotá, where the two policemen involved in the death of the lawyer, Javier Ordóñez, were serving, a group of protesters attacked the uniformed men with stones and sticks.
The CTI commission was trapped in the place by the misfits who, enraged, undertook it against the vehicle of the Prosecutor’s Office and the CAI facilities. Although Police units had arrived to protect the officials, the number of attackers also increased exponentially.
It was necessary to deploy Esmad units, which at this time are confronting the protesters to try to contain the disturbances and destruction in the place.
According to preliminary information provided by the Police, 12 soldiers were injured in the midst of the disturbances in the Villa Luz neighborhood. Two police motorcycles were also vandalized. However, this was not the only epicenter of the protests.
Dozens of protesters came to the CAI de la Gaitana and set fire to it, later they set fire to the CAIs of Fontana and Villa Luz, both in Suba, while the police and Esmad tried to dissolve the protests with gas and rubber bullets in El Tintal and in the Keneddy.
Faced with the excesses, Mayor Claudia López rejected the citizen reaction and called for peaceful mobilization. “Just as we condemn police abuse, we also condemn violence and vandalism by some protesters. Abuse and violence are not solved with more violence. It is in these moments where we must cling to the Constitution and peaceful citizen mobilization, “said the president.
What happened
In a video, published by Blu Radio, two patrolmen are observed to use force with the man, who was already reduced on the floor of a public road and asked: “Stop, please.”
In the same radio medium, Colonel Alexander Amaya, operational commander of the Metropolitan Police of the capital, detailed that a quadrant of the town of Engativá received a call to report a fight and that was the reason why the patrolmen went to the place .
“Upon arriving at the site, there are about eight people arguing and everything seems to indicate that with the intake of intoxicating beverages. It is about dissuading these people, but they become aggressive against the Police ”, she assured.
According to the colonel’s version, “some of these people were taken to the CAI and at that moment, one of them presented discomfort in his physical health and was immediately transferred to the nearest medical center, where he unfortunately arrived without vital signs.”
The operational commander added that the Police Disciplinary Affairs Unit will open an investigation to clarify the facts. Likewise, the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office is also conducting the respective investigation.
Duke condemned the fact
President Iván Duque condemned on Wednesday the events in which the 46-year-old lawyer Javier Ordóñez died after a controversial police procedure and emphasized that there must be “zero tolerance” with cases of abuse involving officials of the public force.
“All of us as a society must demand zero tolerance with the abuse of human rights by members of the public force,” he said emphatically on Wednesday afternoon in the midst of the commemoration of National Human Rights Day. As they have earned that place in the hearts and admiration of the people, we have to be clear that there can be no tolerance when the uniform and authority are abused, “said Duque.
The president described the events in which Ordóñez died as “painful”, but highlighted the “gallant and ironclad” attitude of the institutionality “so that the investigations are carried out, so that progress can be made quickly and that the norms are applied as has what to be”.
“To any dishonor of the uniform we have to demand that timely and objective sanctions be applied and, of course, the product of rigorous investigations,” said the head of state.
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