Adding more problems FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 09/10/2010

Adding more problems

FRONTLINE

Ninez Cacho-Olivares

09/10/2010
Aarly on, it was already evident that the so-called police group tasked to examine the bodies, along with the physical evidence left in the bus after the bloody end that had left eight Hong Kong tourists dead, plus the crazed hostage taker, sacked police officer Rolando Mendoza, was in attempting a cover-up, as twice, the police spokesman claimed, just a day or two after the botched rescue operation, that “with an amount of certainty,” the bulk of some 65 slugs found came from the gunman.

This, even before ballistic testing of the slugs were done — if they were done at all. And worse, even there was need for an autopsy of the bodies, only six underwent autopsy, while two others had not. And no one knows which bullet was the the one that killed each hostage.

Then, too, the blood splatters were nowhere to be found, despite all that shooting. Besides which, the bullet that had killed the hostage taker that was claimed to have come from a sniper, didn’t.

Now, it turns out that some of the hostages may have been killed by so-called “friendly fire” since apparently, some of the bullets found didn’t come from the hostage taker.

So what did the assault team, or maybe even the crime lab people do, clean up the blood splatters and tampered with the evidence?... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100910com2.html