Scum of the Earth HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 01/17/2011

Scum of the Earth

HE SAYS

Aldrin Cardon

01/17/2011
It wasn’t hard to conjure up a mental recreation of what transpired in what was ordinarily a busy F.B. Harrison St. in Pasay, where workers and merchants weave into its everyday crowd of pimps and occasional prospects, and of small-time drug dealers and mostly poverty-stricken users who find dope a convenient escape, and who, sometimes, are witness to petty crimes or are involved in them.

But unlike the drama of last Dec. 20, when a kidnapping worthy of cinematic reconstruction took place in the very same street that was once notorious only for small thievery, a shame compared to this high profile case where two victims were later found murdered in some place else, its perpetrators ranking members of the Philippine police force who should rather fade from light as scum of the earth.

Only that my cinematic mental recreation had a policeman on street patrol, whiling away his time months before his retirement, getting the part of a fumbling accidental hero, who failed to even fire his gun against the well-armed attacker of three Indian nationals, one of whom was their main target, but who had managed to flee by seeking refuge behind my fumbling cinematic hero’s back. Before he ran farther away as his attackers vented their ire on the poor patrolling policeman, leaving him for dead and riddled with bullets, as his pistol was no match to the assault rifles of their attackers, his brothers in arms — policemen themselves..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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