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A police officer assigned from QCPD’s Station 11 (Galas) took the video as the first responder to arrive in the crime scene and then another personnel uploaded the video on a viber group. The video, which had gone viral on social media, showed the retrieval of Valdez’s body from his home in New Manila, Quezon City, on Sunday.
“This is a regrettable incident that was not supposed to spread on social media. If this was taken by our police responders for documentation purposes, there should have been no problem,” Fajardo said at a press briefing in Camp Crame.
QCPD director Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan ordered the sacking of the police officers. Lt. Col. Reynaldo Parlade, the station commander, was also relieved of duty based on command responsibility.
Meanwhile, Valdez’s manager Jamela Santos expressed anger over the circulation of the video, asking her online followers if they could help her raise the matter with the National Bureau of Investigation.
An investigation is still ongoing to identify the source of the video and the persons who uploaded it on social media. (Inquirer)
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