Last Thursday, Oct. 5, a short video clip posted on X, formerly Twitter, went viral. The video shows a police officer stopping traffic along busy Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, purportedly to let a VIP convoy freely cross the wide avenue. Within a short span of time, the video had been reposted and uploaded on other social media platforms, eliciting a torrent of angry and expletive-laden commentary about the sense of entitlement of a particular high-ranking government official. The following day, Oct.

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