"Allegedly, at around 7 in the evening of May 12, for no justifiable reason at all, BGen Tambungan confronted Police Corporal Santiago because she couldn't help him in a task given her. Thereafter, he physically assaulted PCpl Santiago, hitting her on the head and later swinging his car door to hit her, while hurling verbal abuse at her," said Metro Manila police chief Major General Guillermo Eleazar in a statement.