Dismissed cop in 2010 torture video arrested

Nearly two years after the incident, the long arm of the law caught up with a dismissed police officer who was caught on video torturing a suspect in 2010. The Intelligence Group of the Philippine National Police (PNP) arrested Senior Inspector Joselito Binayug while he was renewing his driver's license in Manila, radio dzBB's Tuesday Niu reported Monday. PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Generoso Cerbo Jr. said Binayug was arrested at 11 a.m. at the Land Transportation Office branch in Tayuman in Tondo, after the PNP-IG received a tip about his whereabouts. In August 2010, Binayug found himself at the center of a controversy after a video showing him supposedly torturing a suspected snatcher became viral on the internet. At that time, he was chief of the Asuncion Police Community Precinct (PCP) in Tondo, Manila. The video showed a policeman, believed to be Binayug, pulling a string attached to the private parts of the naked suspect, who twitched in pain every time the string was pulled. The incident reportedly happened in March 2010. Binayug, who has denied he was the policeman on the video, and at least eight other policemen were charged for violating the "Anti-Torture Act of 2009." — KBK, GMA News