At least 18 persons were killed during a police raid targeting a crime group at the Almao favelas in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, police reported.Among the dead were a 50-year-old woman, who was hit by a stray bullet during the raid, .
The episode in Umbaúba, in the impoverished state of Sergipe, occurred exactly two years after the death of George Floyd in the US, and is a particularly brutal expression of the response of the Brazilian capitalist class to the intensifying social crisis in Brazil and internationally.
Police in Rio de Janeiro raided the Vila Cruzeiro favela before dawn Tuesday. setting off a fierce firefight that authorities said killed more than 20 people.