Duterte defends police accused of killing drug-linked mayor
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte staunchly defended on Wednesday more than two dozen policemen who were accused by the government’s main investigation agency of killing a jailed mayor linked to illegal drugs.
Duterte said he still believes the accounts of the policemen, who said Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. and another inmate, Raul Yap, died in their cells when they shot it out with police during a Nov. 5 raid in a jail in central Leyte province.