CMFR however has been as critical of Duterte as much as it has been slavish to Aquino 3rd when he was in power. For example, in the weeks after the Mamasapano bloody fiasco that resulted from Aquino’s incompetence and his reliance on his close friends, police chief Alan Purisima (who was under a court suspension at the time for graft charges), the CMFR scolded mainstream media as being hysterical, and claimed that the incident wasn’t a massacre but a clash between police and Moro rebels.