Duterte's drug war enforcer escapes ICC arrest after fleeing into Philippine Senate

Quick! To the local scumhive! They will protect us from the law!

It gets doubly funny because this guy is all bluster and loves to put on the tough guy act. But when push comes to shove he runs and cries like a b****.

The Philippine courts are comprised of judges who are mostly Duterte appointees. Tough luck for those who want Duterte and allies convicted.

"Extrajudicial killings that were allegedly committed by the Davao Death Squad between 1998 and 2016 during Duterte's mayoralty have also been scrutinized by human-rights groups and the Office of the Ombudsman. The victims were mainly alleged drug users, alleged petty criminals, and street children" "Various international publications and media companies had claimed that Duterte's anti-drugs campaign was a war against the poor due to the abject poverty of those arrested or killed." "Concerns arose worldwide due to the rising death toll during police operations, and drug suspects reportedly fighting back ("nanlaban") was a common alibi of several policemen involved.At the height of the drug crackdown in his early presidency, Duterte urged the policemen to kill drug addicts, promising to pardon them for performing their duties "..." observers noted this assurance may have emboldened the police to allegedly execute suspects and plant evidence on them." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte He did make drug usage lower, but at a significant human cost. Plenty of people in PH think what he did was ok. But its easy to figure out why others do not, he also broke the tradition of publishing your net worth

You shouldn’t be downvoted for this question. I guess “f*** you” because you know a person and asked a question. Edit: but that being said dueterte is no good guy

I'm going to assume you're American and draw a parallel to what's happening with the US for context then explain what's actually happening. It seems like your friend supports Duterte who built up a cult of personality in the Philippines not unlike Trump with MAGA. In the Philippines they're called the DDS (Diehard Duterte Supporters) which actually is a redirection of what it originally meant and the actual group that wanted senator is part of, the Davao Death Squad. Since they are indeed known to publicly execute both violent and nonviolent criminals alike mostly for drug offenses. Now for the other side, the current president Marcos isn't a saint either. If anything he was and is still considered to be one of the greatest evils in the country since he is the son of the former dictator Marcos who plunged the country into vicious Martial Law for 2 decades back in the 70s. Now that he's back though he seemingly has shown to not be his father and instead focused on cleaning his family name instead, choosing to keep up the appearance of a working country rather than being blatantly terrible like in the Duterte years. Albeit he is still part of the elite establishment so the government is still a basket case but it's not Duterte making a mockery of the office of the president and the Philippines' international reputation bad. So the US parallel to draw is establishment democrats who perpetuate the system rather than try to actually fix anything. The thing is these 2 factions originally weren't fighting. They actually campaigned together under the same banner during the last 2022 election to block the actual progressive opposition candidate hence why they're in their current positions. But then they've had a massive falling out over the years since that alliance was only ever there to keep the opposition out. And in the last few months the Marcos faction has been digging up a ton of dirt on the Duterte faction trying to unseat them as much as possible to block a 2028 bid for the presidency of Duterte's daughter who's the current vice president. Mostly because Marcos knows that once she's president, the Marcos family is going to get purged. Which brings us to today. A lot of Duterte faction members are now in hot water because of various corruption scandals, the vice president's finances have been unearthed, scrutinized, and has led to an actual impeachment vote in the congress which passed so it's now up to the Senate to conduct an impeachment hearing. Problem is the Senate is mostly duterte-aligned but they actually couldn't do anything until the other day because they didn't have a majority vote. The previous senate president is in the opposition so would have allowed the impeachment hearing to proceed until Monday that is when the Duterte senators finally got their majority and unseated the Senate president. That majority happened because the 13th senator needed to make a majority (the philippines only has 24 senators), was that wanted by the ICC senstor Dela Rosa who has been in hiding the last few months because of the looming ICC warrant. So now he's back, they got the majority, but then he's trapped in the senate because of a legal precedent where a senator cannot be arrested while Senate is still in session. The FBI-equivalent agency was already ready to arrest him Monday before he entered the Senate chamber but he got through. But yeah with the Senate presidency now in the hands of the Duterte faction, they can enforce that precedent to prevent Dela Rosa from being arrested for as long as possible at least until the Marcos government pulls out a different legal proceeding that forces the Senate to hand Dela Rosa over. Frankly this should constitute a constitutional crisis already but the office of the president has been oddly silent on the matter since there's a lot of talk brewing that theyrr preparing to go on the offensive. Now as for general opinions from the general public, you'll find a lot of mixed opinions. Mostly because Duterte was seen as actually stamping down crime which was a legitimate problem but at the cost of human lives which a number of people were willing to overlook. But then there's also the pro-Marcos people who still believe in the lie of the Marcos martial law era golden age when it also was equally terrible. And then there's the actual opposition supporters who are mostly sitting this out hoping that Marcos actually deals the killing blow so it's only Marcos that needs to be dealt with instead of both or either Marcos and Duterte. It's really a mess all around.