An "honest" Police killed foreingers in a hostage

Yeah. When I saw this, I told myself well, the Philippine peso will surely decrease in its purchasing power so if you have dollars, you can earn a lot. But this is not a good situation since this involves lives of many people. It was just so disappointing that it was not solved without shedding blood. Well, I can't judge Insp. Mendoza since we don't know him personally. He might be a good police and being framed of doing something so that he won't be given his benefits. I think this is so, because I've heard of some good government workers who were suprisingly charged of wrong doings even if they didn't actually committed it. I think this was done to avoid paying retirement benefits to these workers. But, thinking of the possible negative side, this ex-police officer could be a narcisist. I don't know, maybe I watched too much CSIs and Criminal Minds kinda show. It has been said that he's been having awards. A narcisist being someone who loves himself wants to catch others attention. And when the attention was diverted to something else (like his brother was caught), that might have touched the nerve and so he killed randomly. But, I don't know. I really pity this ex-policeman and the family he left. This crisis might be a result of his incapable court justice. You know, as I have mentioned I've heard and even knew a government worker who was dismissed from his job and wasn't given his millions-worth retirement benefit because they charged him of corruption. Now that Hongkong declared "NO travel to Philippines", this is surely a bad news to us. This can affect our economy. That crime affected the entire nation. HK should have atleast made a travel advisory prohibiting to travel in Manila area but not in Visayas. Places here are quite peaceful though there are petty crimes. We can't blame the people if they'll judge the ex-policeman. THere are many people to pinpoint on who to blame. Not just him.

I think that Senior Police Inspector Rolando Mendoza is a good police officer because he won't be awarded as one of the Top Policemen in the Philippines, as what i have read in one of the discussions here. I believe that once again the results our court of justice is incapable..justice should have to prevail on this country and should hear both side of the situations and results should be based on the truth and not on the money a party can provide. HongKong has its rights on the "No travel to Philippines" policy for it's their only way to protect its people. And Filipinos should not be judged in general for the mistake of one is never a mistake of all.

Whatever awards or good complements that psycho cop received before they are all worthless. What he did is not a doing of a normal human being. It is a selfish act. They should had shot him already in the earlier time where he is still showing himself. What he did is a bad example but probably influence others to follow him.

By the way, I don't think he is an honest cop. With the cases charge against him, I don't think it is right to call him HONEST. We may hear from TV interviews about people saying he is innocent, and he was just the commanding officer that is why he was involved in this case, well the fact that he was charge, then maybe he is involved. I don't think it is right to give this man a credit after what he did.

I think he was so desperate because he won't be getting anything when he retires because of his robbery extortion case with the ombudsman. I still firmly believe that there was no intention to harm the hostages, it was his brother who started everything. If he did not make a scene the lives of the 9 including the his brother could have been spared. Our justice system is still in transition phase that's why I can say the "incapable court justice" can be referred to the previous administration. Every government's goal is to ensure its citizen's safety so its safe to say that the travel advisory was just to protect their people. What I'm worried is the discrimination, I've heard over the news that a Filipino domestic helper was handcuffed by her employer because of the incident.

I do not personally know about Senior Police Inspector Rolando Mendoza but as portrait by the media men here in the Philippines, He is an awarde police officer, he was dedicated to his work, he's reputation being the police is highly recommended to one of the finest police officer in the whole police organization. But this good reputation that he hardly earned to his career was totally junked when he was accused with the crime that prompt the department of ombudsman to dismiss him to the police organization after a thorough investigation to the case. According to the ombudsman he could still appeal the decision made by them to the court of appeals to reconsider the case and to grant him T.R.O to prevent the execution of the order to dismiss inspector mendoza to his post. this was not materialized because he felts injustice at the very beginning of the case that prompt him to commit such crime and sacrifice the innocent lives. if there is going to be blamed about this situation, it should be the government officers itself because if they only think the welfare of the people and delivered the transparency in the whole justice system this would not be happen. But the selfishness of those government officers and all those people compose the justice system brings suffering to the people. i believe inspector mendoza is also one of the thousands victims in this particularly incident. Although We condemn such crime committed by mendoza but lets not judge him because he is only of the victims of such injustices... it's so unfair for us filipinos to be judge by the whole world of what could happen, people should remember that nobody wants to do such thing,that situation could occur anywhere,anytime and any place.

It is a big disaster and things should not be ending like this. Now I really wonder that Mendoza was innocent. At least at first his purpose was not to kill the people. If he wanted to kill people, he could have killed much more as we could watch it from TV. His demands were not that much. He just wanted to be back to work. If he was a real bad person, he would not ask for this. He had an unfair judgment and therefore he had to use another mistake to correct it. At the beginning he was still stay calm and set free several people. His attitude was still peaceful. Until his demands were rejected by paper officially, plus his brother was caught, then he was totally annoyed. Then the situation was out of control at the end. This case will somewhat have a negative effect on the tourism in Philippines at present. Because the negotiation and rescue are both so failing. The tourists won't feel safe to it. But I won't judge that all the Filipinos are Mendoza, I believe that the people in Philippines are kind and nice and it is a country which I like to visit one day.

i find it ironic that he wrote making a big mistake to change a big wrong decision. its really understandable with the travel ban, when the sars came to hongkong philippines was one of the first and one of the last to put a advisory in hongkong. its an understandable reaction. but i hope its not long lasting.

what he did was wrong but they should look on to his case. am sure a lot of good officers suffers the same fate.