President Hipolito Mejia has created a commission to investigate recent police excesses against civilians. The commission is headed by the Minister of the Armed Forces and includes the chief of Police, the Minister of the Interior and Police and the director of the National Investigations Department (DNI). The commission will investigate who is responsible for recent deaths at the hands of Police agents in the Capotillo slum barrio. Yesterday, two men died in the barrio during protests over the death of another man who had been shot in the head and the groin by Police the previous day. Just days ago, headlines told of police ordering a man to put down a baby he had been carrying so they could kill him. An editorial in the Listin Diario highlights what it calls “a dangerous chain of police excesses.”
