PSG chief on Rappler’s demand for apology: ‘In your dreams! You apologize to my soldier’

Presidential Security Group (PSG) chief Brigadier General Lope Dagoy on Wednesday rejected the call of online news site Rappler to apologize for his remarks against its reporter who was ordered barred from all presidential coverage.

Dagoy received criticism for threatening Rappler reporter Pia Ranada and accusing her of "bullying" a PSG member Marc Anthony Cempron with questions on Tuesday when she was initially prevented from entering the New Executive Building, where the press working area is located.

The PSG chief said Ranada should have been grateful that Cempron did not hurt her.

“You see how selective they are in finding fault at me without giving the people the whole picture of the incident,” Dagoy said in a statement.

He challenged Rappler to “present the whole video to the public and let them decide who between us made the grievous mistake on what transpired during the incident.?“

“Imagine namili lang ng portion of the incident then project me already as the bad guy? Tama ba yan?” Dagoy said.

“Ganyan na ba ang standard ng media investigation ng Rappler? ?Me to apologize? In their dreams! Sila ang mag apologize sa sundalo ko,” he added.

Rappler said Dagoy’s statement was “conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman” and asked him to either apologize or for his superiors to take him to task “for threatening to use force outside the battlefield.”

Dagoy had also been called out by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana who said he had no right to harm the media organization nor threaten its people. — MDM, GMA News