What is violence to the eyes and mind of Filipinos?

I want to share an incident that occurred early this morning at the beach. There’s a foreign couple altercating and slapping each other’s face in front of a boutique resort. We immediately called a police in nearby police outpost as soon as we see the commotion.

As soon as we see the police coming to the scene, their demeanor and body language don’t show any concern at all — they approach like they’re walking in the park. We suspect that they’re aware what’s going on already—as the outpost is not that far. We soon confirm it’s the case when the police said, “NORMAL LANG PO YAN”. He meant that normal lang sa magkapareha o mag asawa na nag aaway at nagkakasakitan.

Is this how we see and define violence in the Phillipines?

Di nila nilapitan to intervene dahil away mag asawa (until we called them). Anong klaseng pag iisip meron ang pilipino?

What they do, they just ask the altercating couple to go inside the resort so they are not seen in public.

Is this how police officers are trained to deal with violent situations like this? Paano naging hindi mali ito? And the police just did not bother to get the identities of the two—no intentions of making an Incident Report.

Dear PNP, isn’t it a standard protocol that once your police officers intervene into a violent situation to take the identities of the involve persons and make an incident report? Your police officers simply say, “kung walang mag file ng complain, walang kaso”.

It gives me personal impression how twisted and bias we define violence in the Philippines.

Paano kapag nag escalate ang pag aaway at may crime mangyari? Gusto maging tanga ng police na wala silang record sa sitwasyon na sinaklolohan nila prior?

We don’t intend to shame our men in uniform and their organization (that’s why we withhold their names), but we want to raise awareness and we want to educate the Filipino that violence is not tolerated by international law regardless of its form. Violence is violence regardless who is the subject. Hindi porke magka relasyon, may karapatan ang isa na saktan ang isa. That’s a Filipino twisted mind na pinopularize sa pelikulang Pilipino na nag bigay ng ka ignorantehan sa mga manunuod na wala dapat makialam sa away mag asawa…kahit nasa publikong lugar. TWISTED! MALING MALI!!