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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told police on Monday they were free to kill 'idiots' who violently resist arrest, two days after the funeral of a boy who was gunned down and left next to a pigsty by anti-drugs officers.  

Duterte was delivering a prepared speech at the Hero's Cemetery on the outskirts of Manila and veered off-script to address impromptu comments from Jovie Espenido - the police chief of a town in the south where the mayor was killed in a raid.