CCTV footage and testimony of witnesses contradict the statement of police officers that Kian was the one who shot first at cops who were conducting Oplan Galugad that fateful evening.
What is more alarming is that a gun and drug samples were "planted" to the young boy's body in order to justify the bloody encounter and officials seem to tolerate this kind of barbaric act.
Consequently, this issue raises a lot of questions regarding DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones' directive to subject around 60,000 senior high school students in the country to random drug testing. With this order, she might put the lives of students at great risk, knowing that the government has no concrete program yet to rehabilitate drug users and cops appear to rely heavily on their so-called drug list and seem to be in a hurry to meet a "killing quota" per day.
The drug problem is indeed a widespread menace but the killing of innocent lives adds burden to the woes that plague our country.
We, as education stakeholders - teachers, students, parents, community leaders, must express our condemnation of the inhumane and evil acts of wayward cops so as to seek justice for Kian's family as well as to avoid this tragedy from happening again to any of our loved one, student, relative, classmate or friend. #JusticeForKian
