TV reporter: Police did not restrict interview with Mendoza's brother
She was only doing her job and the police made no restrictions on media coverage when SPO2 Gregorio Mendoza, brother of hostage-taker Rolando Mendoza, was being arrested. This was what GMA News reporter Susan Enriquez said on Wednesday, as she testified during the fifth day of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee's hearings. Enriquez said that during the initial minutes of the arrest at a police community precinct near the Quirino Grandstand, she was inside a TV network van, editing a report. At the time, her superiors informed her about the ongoing arrest and told her to go to the precinct to cover what was going on. "Sa akin po nung dumating ako, walang pumigil na magstay ako sa gilid, walang police officer na nag-limit sa akin na nagsabi, 'Please wag mo na icover wag mo na ireport. Ginawa ko po yung trabaho ko pero pag may lumapit na sabihin na huwag, at sasabhin ko sa opisina ko ay huwag nang i-ere," Enriquez told committee chairperson Leila de Lima.