FRANCISCO S. TATAD
AMID rising complaints against police extra-judicial killings in the murderous drug war, President Rodrigo Duterte got a shot in the arm last week when China handed over 3,000 M4 assault rifles, three million rounds of assorted ammunition and 90 sniper scopes, worth $3.3 million, to replace a botched US sale of 26,000 M4 rifles to the Philippine National Police, which American legislators had nixed in 2016 in protest against such killings.