Police's Guzman won't back down

[NewsWhore]

National Police Chief Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin is making a strong stand against the rise in crime and has refused to apologize for the recent deaths of eight alleged muggers in two separate confrontations with the Police. Guzman, who was known as "the Surgeon" before taking the post of Police Chief, spoke to reporters at Las Americas International Airport. The Police Chief said that the National Police would "not back down one millimeter" against crime. Guzman denied that the deaths, which occurred in a 48-hour period, amounted to executions by the officers, adding that executions did not exist in the Dominican legal system. The controversial incidents took place in the Cristo Rey and Ensanche Isabelita sections of Santo Domingo. Guzman defended his officers, saying that they had acted in self-defense. Hoy reports that the first deaths occurred in La Isabelita where five men, three identified as Luis Javier Laureano, Daniel Amado Severino Santana and a man known as "Miguelito," were killed by cops. The second incident took place in Cristo Rey, where police officers killed Alfredo Correa, Miguel Antonio Hilario and an unidentified third man.

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