At least 25 people, including one police officer, were killed in a anti-drug raid in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, according to police, despite a Supreme Court order banning such operations other than in 'absolutely exceptional' circumstances during a pandemic
Porto Alegre, Brazil Twenty-five people, including one police officer, were killed in a police anti-drug raid in a slum on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro, according to state police, despite a Supreme Court order banning such operations other than in"absolutely exceptional" circumstances during the pandemic.
Human rights groups and academic researchers say the widely criticized raid in the Jacarezinho favela was among the deadliest operations in the history of Rio de Janeiro, a state of 17 million that in 2020 alone tallied 1,239 people killed by the police, according to the state government's Institute for Public Security In a press conference late Thursday, a spokesman for the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police said the purpose of the operation was to prevent drug traffickers from forcing minors to...
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