Incoming president encourages public to kill drug dealers

The Philippine president-elect encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime and urged citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who would resist arrest and fight back in their neighborhoods.

Rodrigo Duterte told a huge crowd celebrating his presidential victory late on Saturday in the southern city of Davao that Filipinos who would help him in the bloody war against criminality would be rewarded.

"Please feel free to call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun, you have my support," Duterte said in his nationally televised speech, where he warned about an extensive illegal drugs trade in the country that involved even police.