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  • 2021-01-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Hoax report circulates that Filipino police officer was released after double murder charge (en)
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  • Multiple blog posts have shared a video they claim shows a Filipino police officer was released after being charged with double murder in December 2020. The claim is false: the video in fact shows a news report about an unrelated case. Police in the Philippine province of Tarlac, where the killings happened, told AFP on January 8, 2021, that the arrested officer remained in custody. The video was shared in this blog post on January 7, 2021. Its caption states: Suspect Jonel Nuezca who killed a mother and her son in Tarlac was released past 8 last night. Watch the video for more details. The embedded video shows a two-second clip of a news report in which the anchor states: Because of lack of evidence... The post circulated online after Filipino police officer Jonel Nuezca was charged with murder after the fatal shooting of a mother and son in the northern Philippines in December 2020. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges, CNN reported here on January 10, 2021. A screenshot of the misleading post, taken on January 8, 2020 The same video was also shared alongside a similar claim in blogs here , here and here ; and on Facebook here and here . The claim is false. Keyword searches on Google found the video clip was taken from this broadcast by local television channel GMA News. It was posted on YouTube on January 6, 2021. The clip in the misleading blog posts corresponds to the GMA News video’s three-minute 40-second mark. In the GMA News video, the anchor is in fact speaking about the death of a Filipino flight attendant , not reporting on the Nuezca case. Because of lack of evidence, three suspects in the death of flight attendant Christine Dacera have been released, the anchor states. Below is a screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading posts (L) and the GMA News video (R): Screenshot comparison In response to the misleading posts, a spokesperson for Tarlac police told AFP that Nuezca had not been released. His offence is non-bailable, the spokesperson said by phone on January 8, 2021. Multiple keyword searches found no reliable media or government reports to support the claim in the misleading blog posts. (en)
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