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28 lives lost after Rio de Janiero’s deadliest police raid

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Death toll from police raid in Rio de Janeiro favela rises to 28

Amnesty International says anti-drug trafficking operation in Jacarezinho favela ‘reprehensible and unjustifiable’.​


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People protest against police violence outside the Jacarezinho favela in Rio de Janeiro after a deadly police operation on May 6 [Ricardo Moraes/Reuters]


The death toll from a Brazilian police raid this week in a Rio de Janeiro favela has increased to 28, a police official said late on Friday, as international human rights groups condemned the violence.

One police officer and 27 people were killed in the raid early on Thursday, which authorities said aimed to root out drug traffickers in Jacarezinho, an impoverished community in the city’s North Zone.

It was the deadliest police operationever carried out in Rio de Janeiro.

“Intelligence confirmed that the dead were drug dealers. They fired at officers, to kill. They had orders to confront,” Civil Police Chief Allan Turnowski told reporters.

Brazilian officials have identified the 48-year-old officer who died, but none of the others killed in the operation – raising concerns from rights groups and residents who have condemned the police for using excessive force.

“The number of people killed in this police operation is reprehensible, as is the fact that, once again, this massacre took place in a favela,” Jurema Werneck, executive director of Amnesty International Brazil, said in a statement.

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People protest against the deadly police raid in Jacarezinho favela in Rio de Janeiro [Mauro Pimentel/AFP]

“Even if the victims were suspected of criminal association, which has not been proven, summary executions of this kind are entirely unjustifiable. The police have the power to arrest but the courts have the duty to prosecute and judge those suspected of committing crimes.”
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) also condemned the violence, saying it “furthers a long-standing trend of unnecessary and disproportionate use of force” by Brazilian police in the favelas.

The favelas are home to poor, marginalised and predominantly Afro-Brazilian residents, OHCHR Spokesman Rupert Colville said in a statement on Friday.

“We have received worrying reports that after the events, the police did not take steps to preserve evidence at the crime scene, which could hinder investigations into this lethal operation,” he said.

Colville urged the Brazilian authorities to launch “an independent, thorough and impartial investigation” into what happened.

Brazil’s Supreme Court issued a ruling last year banning most of such police actions during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has ravaged the South American nation and led to more than 400,000 deaths – the second highest tally in the world.
 

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28 ppl?

Seems like the para military was out to kill civilians,

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omg. 28 people?

28 ppl?

Seems like the para military was out to kill civilians,

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According to the article it’s not 28 people/civilians. It’s one police officer and 27 drug traffickers.

Human rights advocates need to sit this one out. These people placed their own lives at risk when they decided to engage in the criminal behavior of drug trafficking.

They were shooting to kill police officers...WTF were the police officers supposed to do with bullets flying at them? Deadly force begets deadly force.
 

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