Colombia wants court to revise police brutality ban
April 9, 2021
The government of Colombia’s far-right President Ivan Duque asked the Constitutional Court to revoke a Supreme Court order that restricted the use of police violence against protests.
The National Agency for the Defense of the State asked the court to revoke the Supreme Court’s order to reform the police citing “the constant disrespect for guarantees of the people’s superior right to peaceful, non-violent protest.’
According to the State defense attorney, the court order that was issued in September last year allowed peaceful protesters to “discredit the authority of the police.”