MANILA, Philippines - A video of the rough arrest of BGC guards to two British men went viral online today as the it shows "inappropriate behavior" of the marshals, reports say.
A one-minute and 31 seconds Youtube video indicates that British men identified as Sam and Chris were beaten up around 5p.m. on Saturday, September 27 at corner 5th & 30th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City.
According to a Youtube user named GriffinCorp, the the brutal incident was started as the marshal and English men had an argument about skateboarding at BGC park. The former have insisted that it's ok to use the board in the said area as advised by the policemen but the latter called for back-up and confiscated the skate board.
Then new set of reinforcements arrive and this video is what happened next. They got caught.
WATCH: Bonifacio Global City Guards Arresting Skills (video courtesy of ghelo bytes/Youtube)
Here’s what happened before this kickboxing incident (courtesy of GriffinCorp/ Youtube):
The English men’s names are Sam & Chris, two of the nicest people I’ve known in the city. Sam is a resident of BGC & Chris is his best friend who’s here for vacation.
Sam just wished to use his skateboard and have fun that Saturday Afternoon | Sept 27. They initially played in front of Banana Republic along fifth avenue, two lady police women approached them and nicely told them that they can’t use the board in that area and they instructed them to play at the park instead, which they did.
At the park, a lady marshal | the one shown in the video with a proud look at 1:16 stopped them rudely unlike the police women. As per Sam’s sharing, in their country they look up to their police officers as kings, they respected them and honour them, so their words were gold. So between the police women & the marshals, they believed the words of the police. They insisted to the marshal that they were told that it is okey to skate in that area and that’s where the argument began.
Marshal called for back-up and two Big Marshals arrived, confiscated the skate board, in Sam’s mind he just want to get the skateboard and run off as he was already scared, which he successfully did. Then new set of reinforcements arrive and this video is what happened next. They got caught.
Given, that the marshals’ were right that it is indeed prohibited to skate although ironically, to play IN A PARK, does it have to end this way? Where’s the maximum tolerance ruling? Oh maybe this marshals have a different code.
We don’t need to be an investigator to figure out that there is something wrong here, they already got him but still the marshals had a grand time I guess showing off their kickboxing skills.
To make it even worse, Sam, with a bruised face and a broken rib and Chris were arrested for being charged with PHYSICAL INJURY by two of this wonderful marshals. Really clever and wise move. They got detained that very night.
Our experience with the investigating team made the night even worse. Few CLOSED DOOR briefings with the complainants (the marshals) and the police happened that night investigator needed to ask what happened, we were waiting for our turn to be asked about our side but it never came.
“Dito ko naintindihan, kawawa ka talaga kapag wala kang kakilala. Kahit ikaw na ang agrabyado, kayang kaya nilang palabasin na ikaw ang masama. I realized, ang bigat pala kapag ikaw na ang nasa ganitong sitwasyon.”
For some reason they weren’t allowed to file a counter-charge that very night and we weren’t able to do anything to prevent them from detaining the two. Where in fact, Sam & Chris, were supposed to be the one filing that PHYSICAL INJURY CASE. If there’s any lawyer reading this we would really appreciate your advice sirs and madams.
Sam is currently confined in St. Lukes & Chris is being held at Taguig Police Station just beside City hall of Taguig as suspects.
You may verify the validity of this story, if this video is still not enough..
If you have the access kindly get hold of the CCTV footage from 3-5pm along Fifth Avenue and at 28th street corner 7th street and their sworn statement at BGC police station.
Kindly share until it gets to the right authorities, they’re being held for 4 days now.
They don’t have much friends here.
They don’t know what to do.
They badly need our help.
Meanwhile, the Bonifacio Global City has issued their statement regarding a video showing an incident involving BGC’s Marshals.
Here's full statement from Bonifacio Estate Services Corporation posted on their Facebook page:
"We have reviewed the video and it indicates that certain members of our security personnel resorted to inappropriate behavior and we are currently conducting a full investigation of this incident.
Meanwhile, we also filed formal charges against the two foreigners who had hit and hurt our lady marshal and another male marshal when their attention was called to certain violations of BGC's community rules, and before their apprehension was captured in the video."
A one-minute and 31 seconds Youtube video indicates that British men identified as Sam and Chris were beaten up around 5p.m. on Saturday, September 27 at corner 5th & 30th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City.
According to a Youtube user named GriffinCorp, the the brutal incident was started as the marshal and English men had an argument about skateboarding at BGC park. The former have insisted that it's ok to use the board in the said area as advised by the policemen but the latter called for back-up and confiscated the skate board.
Then new set of reinforcements arrive and this video is what happened next. They got caught.
WATCH: Bonifacio Global City Guards Arresting Skills (video courtesy of ghelo bytes/Youtube)
Here’s what happened before this kickboxing incident (courtesy of GriffinCorp/ Youtube):
The English men’s names are Sam & Chris, two of the nicest people I’ve known in the city. Sam is a resident of BGC & Chris is his best friend who’s here for vacation.
Sam just wished to use his skateboard and have fun that Saturday Afternoon | Sept 27. They initially played in front of Banana Republic along fifth avenue, two lady police women approached them and nicely told them that they can’t use the board in that area and they instructed them to play at the park instead, which they did.
At the park, a lady marshal | the one shown in the video with a proud look at 1:16 stopped them rudely unlike the police women. As per Sam’s sharing, in their country they look up to their police officers as kings, they respected them and honour them, so their words were gold. So between the police women & the marshals, they believed the words of the police. They insisted to the marshal that they were told that it is okey to skate in that area and that’s where the argument began.
Marshal called for back-up and two Big Marshals arrived, confiscated the skate board, in Sam’s mind he just want to get the skateboard and run off as he was already scared, which he successfully did. Then new set of reinforcements arrive and this video is what happened next. They got caught.
Given, that the marshals’ were right that it is indeed prohibited to skate although ironically, to play IN A PARK, does it have to end this way? Where’s the maximum tolerance ruling? Oh maybe this marshals have a different code.
We don’t need to be an investigator to figure out that there is something wrong here, they already got him but still the marshals had a grand time I guess showing off their kickboxing skills.
To make it even worse, Sam, with a bruised face and a broken rib and Chris were arrested for being charged with PHYSICAL INJURY by two of this wonderful marshals. Really clever and wise move. They got detained that very night.
Our experience with the investigating team made the night even worse. Few CLOSED DOOR briefings with the complainants (the marshals) and the police happened that night investigator needed to ask what happened, we were waiting for our turn to be asked about our side but it never came.
“Dito ko naintindihan, kawawa ka talaga kapag wala kang kakilala. Kahit ikaw na ang agrabyado, kayang kaya nilang palabasin na ikaw ang masama. I realized, ang bigat pala kapag ikaw na ang nasa ganitong sitwasyon.”
For some reason they weren’t allowed to file a counter-charge that very night and we weren’t able to do anything to prevent them from detaining the two. Where in fact, Sam & Chris, were supposed to be the one filing that PHYSICAL INJURY CASE. If there’s any lawyer reading this we would really appreciate your advice sirs and madams.
Sam is currently confined in St. Lukes & Chris is being held at Taguig Police Station just beside City hall of Taguig as suspects.
You may verify the validity of this story, if this video is still not enough..
If you have the access kindly get hold of the CCTV footage from 3-5pm along Fifth Avenue and at 28th street corner 7th street and their sworn statement at BGC police station.
Kindly share until it gets to the right authorities, they’re being held for 4 days now.
They don’t have much friends here.
They don’t know what to do.
They badly need our help.
Meanwhile, the Bonifacio Global City has issued their statement regarding a video showing an incident involving BGC’s Marshals.
Here's full statement from Bonifacio Estate Services Corporation posted on their Facebook page:
"We have reviewed the video and it indicates that certain members of our security personnel resorted to inappropriate behavior and we are currently conducting a full investigation of this incident.
Meanwhile, we also filed formal charges against the two foreigners who had hit and hurt our lady marshal and another male marshal when their attention was called to certain violations of BGC's community rules, and before their apprehension was captured in the video."
