Philippines President Duterte lined up 100 allegedly corrupt cops in front of the media and threatened to kill them

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• Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte summoned 102 allegedly corrupt cops to his palace driveway and unloaded on them in front of the media.
• He also said he would deploy a "special unit" to hunt and kill cops involved with drug or crime syndicates.
• Duterte's harsh drug war is estimated to have killed over 12,000 people. 

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte summoned 102 allegedly corrupt policemen to his palace, lined them up, and threatened to kill them in front of the media.

The president on Tuesday summoned the cops, who were accused of various crimes, to the presidential palace - or the Malacañang - and unloaded on them on the driveway, Philippines-based news site Rappler reported.

"You are useless to me," he said in front of the cameras. "You are a scourge to society.

"If you keep doing that, son of a b---h, I'll really kill you."

Watch Duterte deliver those warnings in a mixture of Tagalog and English in the video below. It's not clear whether the people standing behind him were the supposedly corrupt cops.

Duterte also warned that he would deploy a "special unit" to hunt and kill cops involved with drug or crime syndicates, as he continues his brutal drug war that activists estimate has killed over 12,000 people.

He said: "I have a special unit which will watch you for life and if you commit even a small mistake, I'll ask that you be killed."

He added that he would be reviewing officers arrested for offenses ranging from rape, extortion, kidnapping, and involvement in the drug trade. Others were accused of lesser offenses like being absent from work without leave and neglect of duty. 

Duterte has been ramping up his rhetoric against corrupt police and military personnel in recent months. 

Last month, Duterte promised to "terminate" officers who are involved in the drug trade or killed for money. Several politicians were shot dead in assassinations, and it was discovered that a police officer assigned to a drug enforcement unit was involved in an assassination attempt.