“They should have sent the Elite Senate Tactical Assault Squad instead – Bong Revilla, Jinngoy ang the legendary Lito Lapid” - Juanito Jacela
“For the breaching procedure, seems this was not done properly. Whoever saw a breaching procedure using a tear gas without gas masks? For the incident regarding the brother of Mendoza, it may be true that it is news worthy, but sometimes we there’s a difference between merely covering the news and being responsible in covering them. Our media sometimes lack the idea of delicate situations.” - Armand Gonda
“Quits lang, ika nga ng kabatch ko:”Nagsorry ba sila sa dami ng shabu na dinadala ng Hokng Kong Triad dito sa atin? Sa mga pekeng produkto? Sa gatas na may melamine? Sa SARS? Bird Flu? Sa dami ng mga DH na inaapi sa bayan nila? Give me a damn break!” - Romark Mayuga
“Tatanga ng mga lispu! kainis!” - Kimi Fernandez
“I THINK HES STUPID TO KILL INOCENT TOURIST AND PEOPLE ANG THE BROTHER IS PART OF THE PLOT FROM THE BEGINING THEY HAVE COMUNICATION THROUGH PHONE U DONT CONDONE PEOPLE WHO KILL WOMEN BESIDE HES A CORRUPT POLICEMAN CONVICTED OF CRIME” - Robert Buenavente
“Dapat niloko na lang nila ung pulis na kunwari bibigay ung demands para lang walang namatay” - Anonymous Chick
“Dapat nag media blackout. kaya alam ni mendoza lahat ng nangyayari, kasi napapanood nya sa tv ang lahat ng galaw ng pulis.” - Gerard Fernandez
“When i saw the guy wave at the door and peeking at the windows… i was like… why didn’t they just shoot him!? very bad publicity for us i guess they (police) had to follow their “procedures” or perhaps they didn’t have one i believe we should have a no-negotiation/no-communication policy against hostage takers, just kill. Because if the hostage takers can’t communicate their demands, there wouldn’t be a hostage situation.” - Rick Ong
“Did anyone in the Philippines have a goodnight’s sleep? I highly doubt it.
The hostage drama might’ve been over hours ago, but the tragedy echoes on and continues to haunt us. How could this have happened? How did it get to this?
I won’t act like a know-it-all like all the others who flooded my stream on Facebook and Twitter, assuming that they have a full grasp of what was happening after just hearing bits of information from, well, the uber resourceful, reliable and credible Philippine media. Okay. Let me tone down the sarcasm. I admit, being overseas and all gives me limitations on information from my homeland. Besides, this is not another blow-by-blow account of what has transpired. This is merely a reaction.
I woke up today horrified of how the hostage crisis that broke out when I was about to have dinner here in California progressed.
Rolando Mendoza, a loyal cop who served 20-something years to the force, saw an abrupt end to his career last year on grounds of extortion and some other related crimes. This is strongly denied by his family, friends, colleagues and the people of his town in Cavite. Now, I am NOT driving readers to gain sympathy to the hostage-taker. My point is, wrongfully accused or not, shouldn’t the government confiscate any and all weapons, etc. provided for him when he was on active duty? It’s just common sense. Anyone who gets sacked from the job is demanded to turn in company, or in this case, government, properties! This guy had handcuffs, M-16 and God-knows-what!
The Philippine media, as always, didn’t help. And here they are yelling at the criticisms, “We risk our lives to deliver the news to the public”. This would’ve been more believable if their reports are intended to tell the story, not sell it. Honestly, they sounded more like pitches than actual accounts. They aired the police’s strategy, interviews, footages of the hostage-takers family, including his brother getting arrested. What did they expect to happen from there?
And then there’s Noynoy. His supporters are either turning a blind eye or defending him for this incident. Not only was he absent to the Philippine public the whole time the hostage drama took place, he wasn’t also contactable by the Hong Kong government when it was over. He did give a rather short appearance with statements that just infuriated and shamed the Filipino people even more.
Oh well. Who can blame him? Who can blame the PNP, the Philippine media and all others that fell short on yesterday’s events? We are a nation who just shrugs things off. We give ourselves a very short span for “This, too, shall pass”. We easily forget. The anger, disgust and fury for yesterday’s hostage-taking at the Quirino Grandstand are now replaced by praises, pride and glory as Venus Raj makes it as the fourth runner up in Ms. Universe.
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Are there reports on whose weapons killed the victims? If they were the police’s and not the hostage-taker, I wouldn’t be surprised at all. This wouldn’t be the first time.” - Carol Bustos Santiago
“walang maayos na training ang mga pulis natin in handling situations like these… sick sad world…” - Ester Rebecca Del Fierro
“kanila na si Ronald Singson.” - Sheenah De La Cruz
“I can’t help but get frustrated of what happened.. I tried to rationalize and give the benefit of the doubt to our police force, but i just can’t. There were too many ‘should have’. I strongly believe that our government should issue an apology to Hongkong. Perhaps we can ask the hongkong government to execute Ronald Singson and Chavit Singson as a down payment” -Don Abrito
“Our country should not only issue an apology, but actually pay hongkong for what this crisis has cost them… Damages for the dead and injured, for the chartered flight they brought in social workers and doctors, and everything else!!!!!!! I’ve seen these elite swat members train and again I’m surprised that they are the so-called elite.. they don’t look physically fit and they made one mistake after another. I was watching as the range officer shout over and over again about how they should take it seriously, move faster, etc…. i hope that wasn’t the way they looked at this operation…. as some joke to pass time… i hope not… ” - Norman Go
“the incident that has happened has its downside of course. but it’s really up to us Filipinos to dispel facts shown by the media. discrimination will only empower the ‘accuser’ if the one ‘discriminated’ reacts mindlessly and violently on the accusations. you can’t blame people for having biases. even we, Filipinos, have biases against others based on what Filipino media presents to us; however, keep in mind that once they actually do something based on their biases and start throwing racial slurs, etc., THEY ARE the ignorant ones lacking any sense of decency. why waste time pining over people who lack manners when you yourself know the truth about you and your people? keep your head up, go to work, travel or what have you. choose your battles. Seriously, is it really the horrible thing that concerns us or is it the unreasonable blow by blow account that has been illogically coming out from our mouth just to show to people how good we are in all aspect. Don’t be silly to mention about taxes and all and talk like everybody owes you for that. Is this what makes you proud to be a Filipino? You might as well go to HK and tell their government to launch us a nuclear for payback. To retrospect, admit errors and just do nothing about it is likely absurd. if this thing happens again let Mayor Duterte handle the situation! And get rid of the media (Duterte’s way) that has been a major cause why the situation aggravated.” - Lon Cats
“I have lived in China for almost a year and walked the streets of Hong Kong a few times and I’ve never felt safer than roaming the streets in my own country. The fear of getting your cell phone or bag snatched, of holdups and other crimes keep every Filipino on their toes. The hostage taking tragedy yesterday proved that if Filipinos feel unsafe in their own country, foreigners should even fear for their own safety more.
The police brutality issue rose days ago, along with the disappointing turn of the hostage taking last night shows that our country’s crime fighting procedures and the officers who implement them need some major revamp.
They should be constantly trained not only in law enforcement but in tactics and methods of handling situations such as hostage taking. They should be well-informed of our public policies regarding human rights of every man, woman and child.
As figures of authority, they should act as role models to every citizen so that in turn, we would learn to trust them instead of criticize them.
However, given that they deal with the scum’s of society on a daily basis, police officers are human too and easy to fall prey on temptations that could lead them to betray what they’re protecting in the first place.
Whatever wrongdoings they’ve done, they must have reasons. But police officers should take pride in their jobs of keeping people safe.
This is how we can take pride on them, too. Rolando Mendoza was desperate but he only wanted to be heard. He knew it was a dead end but being a policeman was his life and when they took it away from him, it was like they took his life from him as well. The hostage taking was his attempt to bring back that life he so cherished.
The life that was singlehandedly snatched away from him because of a bad decision. But a wrong decision could never be made right by another wrong decision.
It was a tragic case of making your passion your life.
His passion killed him, along with several innocent lives that he has sworn to protect.” - Joey Gonzales
“dig deeper. the cop had a right to be frustrated with the system. although what he did was completely wrong, his reasoning was not completely out of this world” - Joel Yaptinchay
“honestly, I didn’t give a fuck. Sanay nako sa mga ganon e. So I guess I am indifferent to what happened. My Turkish officemate told me about it yet, kung hindi nya sinabi, hindi ko malalaman.” - Peewee Artista
“sabi nga dito nung isang survivor di naman dapat siya mamamaril pero dahil sa failed negotiations kaya ganun.. siguro kulang sa experience ang chief of police kaya ganito ang nangyari..” - Avie Elleazar
“kakalungkot lang how incompetent our police force is.” - Richmond Sia
“There are a lot of criticisms, but I guess the most glaring ones belong to the lack of training of the PNP, SWAT and how media handled the fiasco.” -Carlo Luis De Leon
“NEWS BLACKOUT. This is a must for every hostage-taking situation. You DO NOT feed information to the taker, especially what the cops and SWAT team is trying to do.” - Sheenah Tan-De La Cruz
“SERIOUSLY, YOU CALL THAT A RESCUE OPERATION?” - Floyd Buenavente
Now lets’ see how other countries do it:
And this is how Philippines does it:
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lol. i watch too much 24 and The Unit and it was way way far!
i have sympathies for the hostage taker; he may have been a steadfast policeman who bumped a wall that can’t be overcome – say a powerful drug trafficker backed by very high police officials. he may have been unrelenting in his fight against it but in the end succumbed to the conspiracy of the powerful — getting sacked and he becoming the villain. Isn’t this similar with Lozada’s and other exposé martyrs’ stories?
regardless, his hostage taking is abominable. if he was taking hostage the previous First family, i’m sure the entire nation wouldn’t mind.
As if the ineptness of the police was not shameful enough, some broadcaster honcho thinks it is worthwhile to broadcast that the Philippines made it to the headlines of CNN, BBC and other news bureaus worldwide. Shameful that we are in the news for something tragic such as this. It is high time media gets castigated. They have no right saying ”panahon na ng pagbabago”. Disgusting!
What about those euro generals? what have they learned when they went to moscow? Sana yung perang dala-dala nila ay ipinambili ng mga gamit sa ating kapolisan at ginastos para sa training nila!