“Nagpe-pedal lang po si Eric para matustusan ‘yong pangangailangan ng pamilya niya. Hindi po nagtutulak ng droga ‘yon. Imposible po ‘yong mga sinabi nila (Eric was working as a pedicab driver to sustain his family’s needs. He was not into peddling drugs. What [the police] said were impossible).” This was the lament of Bernard Bermoy, 43, father-in-law of Eric Sison, the pleading pedicab driver heard in a viral video who was repeatedly shot by the police pursuing him last Tuesday. Bermoy and his family live in a residential area on F. Muñoz St. in Tramo, Pasay City, tagged by the police as “drug-prone.” Four families composed of more than 20 persons pack themselves in a little shanty. At around 9 p.m. last Tuesday, Rachel, 19, Eric’s wife and Bernard’s daughter, was sleeping in her room after bringing the body of her husband to the morgue after the incident. The body [...]
