“Is your dad a rapist?” , is the controversial response that the Mayor of Soacha gave to a high school student

A controversy has sparked the response that the mayor of Soacha Juan Carlos Saldarriaga said, amid a possession of student representatives and comptrollers.

During the meeting held at the Sua municipal theater, one of the high school students questioned the National Police, about the acts of abuse of authority left by last year's strike. The young student rebuked mayor soachuno for the performances of the uniformed men.

The young woman commented that the police were related to violations and abuses (due to the cases that occurred during the course of the national strike last year), but the matter did not end there, Mayor Saldarriaga answered the student with an analogy that was to clear up doubts, it generated great displeasure in the community.

“Is your dad a rapist? Or your mom? I'm sorry to put this example with you, but you don't have to generalize, because you find parents who abuse their children, but that doesn't mean, that you should say that they kill all the dads,” the president soachuno replied, leaving the students and participants of the Sua theater meeting stunned.

Although I reiterate that it was only an example to show that the stigmatization and generalization suffered by the uniformed, Saldarriaga's reply generated disgust. “We have cases in the police that need to be questioned and punished. But we can't generalize. As in a fruit basket, a bad fruit can be found, and it is up to us to remove it, so that it does not harm the others,” said Mayor Soachuno.

For her part, the minor stated that when wearing a uniform, the institution must be held responsible for the actions of its members: “I was taught that, if I fight in the uniform, I pay for school, because I am part of the institution”.

After this, Saldarriaga pointed out what recommendations or requests were to improve perception of authority, to which the capacity of the Sua theater responded that it is necessary to reform the Police. While the young student was congratulated on social media for her interventions, the Mayor was widely questioned by her response given to the minor.

In other news from the municipality of Soacha, With the aim of addressing crime and insecurity in Soacha, the municipal mayor's office, in coordination with the competent security and protection authorities, advanced the 'Shielding Plan' during the previous week. The results of this strategy are 23 captures and the seizure of more than 18 kilos of narcotic drugs.

The Mayor's Office of Soacha reported that this is “a strategy that seeks to strengthen security and capture those people who threaten the integrity of citizens.”

The first operation took place in the early hours of Wednesday, March 31. Local authorities were present in the rural area located on the border of Soacha with the town of Bosa, in the south of Bogotá. There, a winery containing 13,500 grams of marijuana was raided for distribution and sale in the country's capital.

The second intervention was carried out at the TransMilenio station in San Mateo, where the records of passers-by, as well as drivers traveling on the Southern Highway, were requisitioned and validated.

Finally, the third operation was carried out in the Chicó neighborhood. Local authorities assured that thanks to the citizens' complaints to the Soacha Metropolitan Police, the seizure of five kilos of marijuana was achieved.

The drugs seized during the operations carried out under the 'Shielding Plan' would have a value of 50 million pesos in the case of cocaine hydrochloride and 22 million pesos more for marijuana, approximately.

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