Thursday s raid was to put an end to “the routine of terror and humiliation that the traffic imposed on residents,” Governor Castro explained.
Rio de Janeiro Governor Cláudio Castro Friday stood by the police s actions in Jacarezinho, claiming that the suspects response had been “brutal.”
An anti-drug raid in the Jacarezinho area Thursday ended up with 24 suspects downed by police fire and one law enforcement agent later who also died of his wounds. The number of total deaths was updated early Friday to 28, it was reported.
The operation was considered the most lethal in the history of Rio de Janeiro.
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The United Nations said it was “deeply disturbed” by the killings of 28 people during a raid on a Rio slum
Police in Brazil on Friday were accused of human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings during an hour-long gun battle in a Rio de Janeiro favela the previous day that left 28 people dead.
A Supreme Court Justice on Friday called for an investigation into the police raid which rights groups said was the deadliest ever in a city notorious for its violent crime.
Justice Edson Fachin ordered the federal and state prosecutors to investigate two videos circulating on social media that appeared to show police killing indiscriminately in Rio’s impoverished neighborhood of Jacarezinho.