An estimated , foreign soccer fans will arrive in Brazil for the World Cup in June. The use of excess force by the police has angered residents and led to criticism from international human right groups of alleged abuses. Brazilians were shocked this week by images of a woman who was shot and then dragged along the street by a police car when her body fell out of the trunk following a shootout in a slum.
To date, 36 Rio slum areas have been pacified with more than 9, police patrolling neighborhoods where 1. Initial success in evicting the gangs was applauded, but the police operations have been criticized for merely displacing crime to other slums. Krot told the man. Angela Simmons caught fans by surprise on Jan. In the Instagram post, the year-old […]. Republican Sen. Roger Marshall Kan. The Fauci Act would require the Office of Government Less than three months before Rio welcomes tens of thousands of foreign soccer fans for the World Cup, the attacks cast new doubts on government efforts to expel gangs from slums using a strong police presence.
The city will host the Olympics in On Thursday night, shooting broke out between drug traffickers and police in a slum near the Manguinhos complex of shantytowns. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
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Searches by the police in the Laboriaux area of Rocinha turned up drugs and caches of weapons and ammunition. The police also guided journalists through the luxurious three-story villa of a Rocinha drug trafficker called Peixe, or Fish, who was arrested last week, showing them his hot tub, swimming pool and collection of imported spirits.
But such displays belied the sense of normalcy that prevailed in Rocinha on Sunday.
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