FILE: First police conviction in Philippine drug war killing Three Philippine policemen have been sentenced to decades in prison for murdering a teenager during an anti-narcotics sweep, a first conviction of officers carrying out President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. Duterte has vowed to pardon authorities involved in his bloody crackdown, but even he refused to defend the 2017 killing of Kian delos Santos in a dank Manila alley -- which helped spark rare protests against the campaign. FILE IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES from the funeral of Kian delos Santos in August 2017