Washington Post. These shootings are obviously routine in Rio de Janeiro, but
this is unprecedented, in that it s the operation that has generated the largest number of deaths, ever.
Brazilian lawmaker David Miranda, who grew up in Jacarezinho, called the deadly police raid a tragedy, a slaughter authorized by Cláudio Castro, Rio s governor. Jacarezinho is my origin, it is the favela that created me, said Miranda. No person born outside the favela can know what that is. Brazilian institutions insist on disrespecting and marginalizing the favela.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald, Miranda s husband, wrote on Twitter that he has seen probably two dozen videos that are way too horrifying to publish: police enter homes with full force and violence, and then execute people as they lay on the ground,
More than 100 heavily armed Brazilian police officers stormed a sprawling Rio de Janeiro favela Thursday and killed at least two dozen people, a raid that human rights activists, researchers, and journalists described as the deadliest such police atrocity in the city’s history.
The hourslong operation, purportedly aimed at drug traffickers in the poverty-stricken Jacarezinho favela, ultimately left 25 people dead, including one police officer. Horrific video footage and images posted to social media in the wake of the raid which was carried out despite a court order against such incursions during the Covid-19 pandemic show favela residents surveying rooms, hallways, and alleys streaked with blood.
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