Crowds in Rio mourn man slain by police; his daughter calls them 'bandits'

[Judi Lynn]

JANUARY 5, 20213:58 PMUPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

By Ricardo Moraes

2 MIN READ

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Crowds gathered on Tuesday in a Rio de Janeiro cemetery to bury Marcelo Guimarães, the latest victim to be killed by police in Brazil, home to some of the world’s deadliest security forces.

Guimarães was killed on Monday at the entrance to the City of God favela, after dropping off his son for his first day of school. His family said Rio’s military police, known for their deadly raids on poor, Black neighborhoods, shot him from inside an armored vehicle as he drove past on a motorcycle.

Police violence is a long-running problem here in Brazil, and particularly in Rio, home to some 17 million people. State security officers killed 1,160 people between January and November 2020, about the same number as in the whole of the United States.

Critics accuse far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who has for years lived in Rio, of exacerbating the issue by urging police to show no mercy to criminals he has labeled “cockroaches.”

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Marcelo Guimarães, killed during a police confrontation near Cidade de Deus (City of God)

[SleeplessinSoCal]

1. Historically the "solutions" by the right are far worse than the "problems".

We ought to know this and shout it from the house tops until everyone hears.