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And a minister ofjustice, for example, and me and many others that are thinking about how we can face that problem and do something to protect our people. what i was just trying. crosstalk. so, again just to be clear do you see your sister, marielle, as one of the victims of genocide? exactly. perfectly. that s the perfect point that you just brought. marielle was a victim but inside politicians. marielle was a councilwoman who got killed with five shots on her head, 13 on her body, and she was also a victim of the genocide in this country. crosstalk. but i m just wondering, minister, how you can, in a way, how you can sit comfortably in a ministerial office in brasilia when you re saying that you believe the state is still complicit in an unfolding genocide against black brazilians. i mean, for example just to take one example marielle was killed five years ago. ....
my sister was killed and we re still waiting for the trial to come, but what we have so far is that we have two former police officers that was not they were not working for the police any more but they were former officers and they were the people who executed marielle because someone asked them to do so. and she was a politician. right, well. crosstalk. and every black people. we need to be a little bit careful, as the trial hasn t yet happened. we should say that they remain suspects who are facing trial, rather than. exactly, they remain suspects. butjust to conclude i think that every black person is suspect in brazil. every black person that does not know what to do in case of violence can die. i mean, i can, the people that work with me can. the thing is that we need to talk to the police, we need to talk to the governors, we need to think about programmes, we need to think about public policies and to stop the genocide of the black ....
When we re talking about poor people, we re talking about quilombolas, mst, or the favela people or black people, we re talking about people who didn t have opportunity to do a lot of in life because of racism. given the. it all comes to opportunity and to racism. just finally, it is possible it s going to be a very dangerous place for you to be in the next few years, in the heart of politics. i lljust remind you that after your sister was killed, you said that, if i have to be the next marielle to die, i will be. but you said, i am. ..determined to continue her work. do you still. obviously you still feel that today, but you still feel the threat? i think that in any place in brazil, we are threatened. there is no place safe here, you know, when you decide to fight for human rights. i think that the thing that make us wake up every day ....
And 22-year-old ashley reel found dead in a lev heavily wooded area. the police agencies working together to see if there s a link between cases. what are they specifically looking for to see if they re connected? one of the main things is the manner of death and the weapon. if that s consistent across all these victims, that would be a huge point. reporter: portland police pushing against speculation of a serial killer saying, quote, i can t say we re not looking into it but we don t want the public to jump to conclusions . for the families, answers can t come soon enough. this isn t just about my sister anymore, even if it s not one person doing this. reporter: so just a few things to adhere at the end of this. arielle, who you just heard from, joanna speaks sister says she has been in touch with the family members of the other women. ....