Police chief Major General Pedro de Jesus Candelier Tejada said excesses were committed in the case of three supposed assailants. A video of a journalism student offered proof that the three were shot after they were arrested and not during a shoot out with the police as reported by the force. The men attempted to assault a farmer in Moca and were arrested. The chief of the Police said that there would be exemplary sanctions. Manuel Maria Mercedes, president of the Comisi?n Nacional de los Derechos Humanos, the local human rights commission, said that the three deaths are evidence that the National Police has instated the death penalty. The maximum penalty in the DR is a 30 year jail sentence. President Leonel Fern?ndez met with Police Chief Candelier and expressed his concern over the incident.
