The MPD video showed the protesters advancing against the outnumbered anti-riot police and destroying the barricades set up along T.M. Kalaw Street.
Despite this, NCRPO director Chief Superintendent Oscar Albayalde insisted that the police did not start the violence.
While the incident is being investigated, the chief of the MPD, Senior Supt. Marcelino Pedrozo, and eight other policemen involved in the violent rally dispersal were relieved from their posts.
Pedrozo admitted that he became angry when the protesters breached the no rally zone, adding that he was having a meeting at that time when the violence started.
He said the protesters had no plan to negotiate and just charged at the anti-riot police.
But Bayan secretary general Renato Reyes countered that the police had initially planned to disperse the demonstrators.
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