“He told me, ‘Just as I killed your son, I can kill you, too’

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Brazil, Fed Up With Crime, Grudgingly Accepts Police Violence
By SIMON ROMERO and TAYLOR BARNESMAY 21, 2015

Killings of children by the police in neighborhoods like Complexo do Alemão, in Rio de Janeiro, have not prompted a significant shift in policing methods. Credit Mauricio Lima for The New York Times



RIO DE JANEIRO — Eduardo de Jesus was on his doorstep in Complexo do Alemão, a vast maze here of cinder block homes, when his mother heard the loud blast of gunfire.

Seconds later, she saw Eduardo, 10, lying dead from a gunshot wound to the head, and she ran toward the police officer holding the gun.

“I grabbed him by the vest and yelled, ‘You killed my boy, you wretch,’  ” said his mother, Terezinha Maria de Jesus, 40.

“He told me, ‘Just as I killed your son, I can kill you, too,’ as he pointed his rifle at my head,” she continued. “I told him: ‘Go ahead. You just killed part of me. Take the rest.’”

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MORE (sounds so familiar.....):
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/world/americas/police-killings-brazil-rio.html

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