The picture in the national press showed a flag-draped coffin being carried by a mass of young people. The caption told of a young hoodlum killed in a gang shoot out, and the ceremony surrounding the burial. Today, the sharp reactions of military and police officials at the use of the flag in these circumstances are what make the front pages. The chief of Police, major general Manuel de Jesus Perez Sanchez, told reporters that he had requested that the Attorney General approve a measure that would allow the Police and the military to bury delinquents and avoid a repetition of what he called “the scandalous behavior” seen at the cemetery yesterday. At the same time the police official ordered an investigation of the police officers that allowed the use of the flag during the burial procession of Ubaldo Mota Rivera, a.k.a. “Nino Cuboy”. The Police are also looking to identify the pickup truck that had government license plates and was used to carry several of the dead man’s fans. The police chief decried the fact that in the neighborhoods where the gangs operate, many people, either out of fear or for their own convenience, appear to support them. When one of the gang members is killed, “his followers try and make a ‘martyr’ out of the deceased” often using terror tactics, according to Police spokesperson Simon Diaz. El Caribe published part of the request made to the Attorney General. General Perez Sanchez justified the request because of the public disgust at the use of the flag-draped coffin. He wants the Police to take the criminals’ bodies from the Pathology Institute to the cemetery based on Articles 139 and 140 of the Health Code (Las 42-01). His note to the Attorney General says that “when one of these antisocial people die as a result of their criminal activities, whether it is in an armed confrontation against the Police or against other gangs, their followers sometimes cause chaos on the streets and clashes with other gangs, in order to create disorder and terror among the populace.” According to reports, Nino Cuboy had a long rap sheet with ten arrests.