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Brazilian Police Killed More Than 5,000 Civilians in Rio Between 2005 and 2014, Report Says

A new 90-page report from Amnesty International entitled You Killed My Son says law enforcement claimed the lives of 5,132 Brazilians in the city of Rio de Janeiro between 2005 and 2014, out of a total 8,466 killings in the state of Rio de Janeiro during that period. It also makes the chilling allegation that nine out of ten police killings in 2014 and 2015 in one Rio favela, Acari, were “extrajudicial executions” — the intentional, illegal killing of a person after they have already surrendered or been apprehended. Nearly 16 percent of Rio’s homicides in 2014 were committed by police officers, Amnesty alleges.

 

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