Another showdown is brewing between the DPP's office and the police senior command - and this time, the fight is over whether a policeman will go to jail for murder.
On November the tenth, the DPP sent police a directive, ordering the CIB Office to charge Constable Jesus Marroquin for murder. The charge goes back to September 27, 2005, when Marroquin killed Egbert Gordon Jr., a mentally disturbed man. Gordon had barricaded himself inside a private home in Los Lagos. Police forced their way into the house, and found that he had secured himself inside a back room, heeping bicycles against the door. When police finally busted into that room, they claim he had a shiny object in his hand, and at close quarters, they say they had no choice but to shoot, and they shot him in the face.
Well, the DPP's office doesn't agree with the police account or actions, and after thorough re-assessments involving forensic and ballistic evidence, the office has instructed police to charge Marroquin for murder. But once again, it's a case of the Police Department not agreeing with the DPP. So, 12 days after that directive came down, police have done nothing.
But with the senior command having expended so much capital blocking the murder charge against Ben Abou-Nehra, it's left to be seen how much capital it has left to protect one of its own against the DPP. Determined to pressure the police and impatient with the delay, it seems the DPP has recruited assistance from his allies in the media to out the matter and force the police's hand.
