The federal agents were waiting at the Philippine Senate to serve an arrest warrant. Their target was a lawmaker.<\/p>\n
But the lawmaker ran, and the agents gave chase. He dashed up flights of stairs and through doors, stumbling at one point. A couple of minutes later, he was in the safety of the Senate chamber, where the would-be arresting officers had no authority.<\/p>\n
This extraordinary scene was captured on CCTV and shown<\/a> during a plenary session of the Senate on Monday. The senator in question was Ronald dela Rosa, who was the chief enforcer in former President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s devastating antidrug campaign. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for crimes against humanity, the same charge that it arrested Mr. Duterte<\/a> for last year.<\/p>\n For now, Mr. dela Rosa, 64 \u2014 whose nickname is \u201cBato,\u201d or rock in Tagalog \u2014 is holed up in the Senate.<\/p>\n \u201cI am well rested and have already recovered from the adrenaline rush yesterday,\u201d he said in a text message on Tuesday. \u201cThe next steps are to exhaust all legal remedies. We are already filing all the necessary petitions.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. dela Rosa\u2019s lawyers are petitioning the Supreme Court to invalidate the warrant. The I.C.C. has accused him of being responsible, along with Mr. Duterte and others, of multiple killings when he was Davao City\u2019s police director and later chief of the Philippine National Police. He has previously denied the charges.<\/p>\n For months, Mr. dela Rosa had not appeared in public, amid speculation that the I.C.C. had issued a warrant for him. He arrived at the Senate on Monday, as the latest episode of the acrimonious rivalry between President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte, the daughter of Rodrigo Duterte, unfolded.<\/p>\n On Monday evening, the House of Representatives impeached Ms. Duterte<\/a> again. But by then, an ally of Ms. Duterte had been elected as the new Senate president, making Ms. Duterte\u2019s prosecution on impeachment charges almost certain to fail, as did her first impeachment.<\/p>\n